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

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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.

Before we get onto cooing at the virtual Wild West pictures though, not all Red Dead players are especially fond of this idea. It's true for example that a 'funeral' suggests this is a dead game or even that it's closing down soon, neither of which is true: Rockstar is going to continue to support RDO, just not in a big way, and there's no suggestion that the game is going to be mothballed yet.

So there is a sense in which this funeral is slightly hyperbolic melancholy. To argue for the other side, though, RDO players arguably have a right to feel short-changed, when you consider how GTAO has been supported. Yes the latter is operating on a different scale, but it also never felt like Rockstar was behind RDO in the same way.

But that's academic now, and all that's left are the last rites (for a game that will remain playable for years to come).

Which they did, producing some pretty spectacular sights: let's not forget that Red Dead Redemption 2 is still one