As is the case with most online games, the time between updates of titles like Red Dead Online can lead to fans burning through all of the available content and needing to come up with their own ways to play. With fans starving for more content and an update to Red Dead Redemption 2, specifically with its online component, some players have taken it upon themselves to create their own content.
This comes from a thread on Reddit where user u/Sithcrutchy3 has uploaded a video of a group playing a player-made game in Red Dead Online, lovingly called Pigby. There is also a Facebook group dedicated to gathering players for the fan created sport on Xbox, which shouldn't come as much of a surprise, since the community is gifted when it comes to organizing their own events like flooding Red Dead with clowns.
Pigby itself is a fairly simple game that involves two groups of players, a referee, and a pig carcass in order to make a rudimentary recreation of rugby as a fan-made alternative to other Red Dead Online's modes like Showdown. The game starts when the referee throws the pig carcass into the middle of an open field, which prompts the two groups of players to rush to the center unarmed and fight hand to hand until someone can grab the pig. Whichever team is able to pick up the carcass and run it to the opposite side of the field wins the round, after which both teams reset and the referee repeats dropping the carcass to begin the next round.
Pigby from reddeadredemption
The practice of fans creating their own games within a game is nothing new to communities, with some of the most popular versions of this taking the form of Halo's Grifball and Destiny's Sparrow Racing League. Whether or not Rockstar will decide to turn this practice into an official game mode is very much up in the air, but considering how slow updates in Red Dead Online have been, it may be some time before it is implemented. However, if previous examples of player-made games are anything to go on, it would be a useful investment to pull the new sport into the game.
Fan communities are great at flexing their creativity with games like Pigby, crafting their own unconventional ways to play inside of other games. At the moment, with Rockstar forced to focus on fixing issues with Red Dead Online, from the usual bugs to griefers and trolls, it may be up to players to make their own new content for a while.
Red Dead Online is available now on PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.