Red Dead funerals pay respectful tribute to Rockstar’s Western opus, except for the one that got blown up

Last week Rockstar announced that cars have replaced horses (opens in new tab), and with more resources being moved to the next GTA game it’s not going to make any more substantial updates for Red Dead Online. The game’s community has long bemoaned that the updates RDO received weren’t great anyway, and have held various amusing protests about the perceived lack of support for the title, so the news was not perhaps the greatest of surprises.

It did, however, coincide with a loosely organised attempt to hold an in-game funeral for RDO, with community members intending to return to the game en masse on July 13 and pay tribute. Rockstar’s news came a couple of days after this funeral was announced, and so it gathered momentum among the game’s community in the aftermath.