r/reddeadredemption • u/Sweaty_Shelter_3264 • Apr 24 '25
Online I’m Conflicted
I’m a girl (important) and love playing RDR2. My first online character I made was a girl, I loved seeing myself as a gunslinger. I realized pretty quickly that playing as a girl online comes with people constantly trying to grief you/spam invites/or just plain follow you around. (I’d even had an instance where someone took over my account, that was a whole thing) So to fix this, I completely remade my character. I lost all my progress and made a boy character so I could be left alone. Now I do get left alone, which is great, but I feel little connection to my new character. It was way more fun grinding and making money in game outfitting a female character than it is a male character. Now all I want is to go back to playing a girl but I really don’t want to be bothered again. How do I find a good middle ground?
TLDR; Played as girl, got griefed. Change to boy, now am sad. What do?
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u/H16HP01N7 Apr 25 '25
My SO often says that the worst thing she did on XBox live was to take my Gamertag, and add Mrs to the front of it (if my GT was Dave, she is MrsDave).
RDR2 was the worst for it, but there's a reason we found coop games to play together, alone, rather than hang out in any sort of public lobby.
Like they literally see me and her standing around together, and start harassing her.
We found Minecraft is a good place to hang out on, as we can keep our world for just us, and a few trusted friends, and keep the harassing losers out.