The Red Dead Online community had started planning a funeral for the game, to coincide with the anniversary of the game’s last major update. They didn’t know that it would be officially declared dead in advance. On July 7, 2022, Rockstar Games pushed an update to its Newswire, confirming that Red Dead Online would not receive any more “major themed content updates,” as the studio shifts development resources onto Grand Theft Auto 6. The news came less than a week before July 13, the one-year anniversary of Red Dead Online’s last major update, Blood Money, which brought a smattering of missions, a dubious in-game currency, and The Quick Draw Club,…