Red Dead Online Players are organizing Charity Rides to Fundraise for Cancer Research

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We’ve written about Red Dead Online and its active Trail Riding communities before: Players meet in the online game simply to have a nice, peaceful ride with each other.

Some people take this positive energy one step further and organize special Charity rides where they get together to raise funds for various organizations. One group of PC gamers has raised several hundred dollars for the Minnesota Freedom Fund (Black Lives Matter) and The Trevor Project (LGBTQ+ Youth) this way.

This month, the Red Dead Trail Blazers Xbox group is organizing a ride for breast cancer research.

“We are all going to wear pink and shave our characters head to stand with those who lose their hair from the treatments,” organizer Kristina Heller tells me. “We are also selling merchandise we’re all the proceeds are going to the breast cancer research foundation.”

These merchandise shirts can be found here. If you’d like to participate in such a ride, you can find the Xbox Trail Blazer group right here. The ride in question takes place on October 11th at 9am PST, that is 12pm EST and 6pm CEST respectively. If you’re interested in taking part, be it in this particular ride or in other charitable efforts conducted within RDO, I can only recommend checking out the pinned posts in the Horses & Video Games Facebook Group, where you can find multiple communities of RDO Trail Riders, including the two mentioned in this post.

The money raised in this fashion may not sound like vast amounts, but it is always lovely to hear that people are putting their time and energy towards a good cause, within their specific niche or hobby.