Red Dead Online (Digital Game)

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In November 2009, Rockstar Games published an online multiplier action-adventure game Red Dead Online. The game was released for PS4, Xbox one in May 2009, and for Stadia and Microsoft Windows in November 2009. A player plays a character who is freed from jail after framed for murder. Red Dead Online can be played up to four players to advance the story. Also, the player will encounter events and side mission for some additional in-game rewards. [1] The game is mainly using third-person perspective. However, during in aiming mode, the player controls first-person perspective. As an open world game, the player can roam across the map with horse or on foot. The player can shout out, heists, hunt, ride a horse, interact with NPC or other players, and gain moral honor through choices and deeds. Red Dead Online players used in-game currency for buying supplies and gold for buying special items. The gold is purchasable with real money or it can be obtained through converting 100 nuggets from challenges into gold bars. Also, special online feature featured in the ability cards can increase the power level on the character. The cards are available by achieving certain rank and purchasable at the in-game shop. Then, the cards can be upgraded with experience or in-game currency. The game is a normal. It does not any particular racism. However, the players do.

Controversy

Although the game is popular among online players, the game black game players feel that the environment is harmful. In Red Dead Online, the player can create their avatar. They choose what they want. While it is good to have black character available, the in-game environment is not so hostile for black characters. On tweeter, some players curses the black as the source of their misery [2]. They call black people “Darkies”. Louis, Red Dean Online player, while playing as white in MMO games is “hit and miss”, being black in Red Dead Online makes him the target. People are shouting with n-words in every corner of the game. The experience can be totally anarchy at a time [3]. The reasonable explanation about the racism is perhaps the design of the game level which is in the historical setting in which cowboy exists in western 1899 to 1907 [4] Thus, some players are carried out with the act of racism. The setting presents in the western during cowboy and slavery exists. Similarly, HipHopWired contributor, Bernard Smalls, said that the game setting made it different. The setting, wild west, that contains part of realism makes some players feel it is the right place to do it. At that period of time, Although not all of the players play in that offensive way, racism still exists in the community through chat or voice feature in the game.

References

[[Category: Black Racism in Video Games

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Online Wikipedia. Retrieved on Jan 29, 2021
  2. https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/15/18183843/red-dead-online-black-character-racism
  3. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/red-dead-online-review-right-mixture-story-anarchy-1164115 Parker, Ryan. As the week goes on, more will be granted access to the massive online open world. Archieved on Jan 29, 2021
  4. https://reddead.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000002364 Morgan, Arthur. In-game Racism. Original on Jul 2, 2020. Retrieved on Jan 29, 2021.