Rocket League Goes Free-to-Play This Summer

So excited for this update! I'll be able to share all my PS4 items with my PC account. Finally Epic Games is doing things with this community!!

Its going free to pay thats a pity. Games are going the music route with a dime a dozen kids think everything is free monetised too death.

So whats the catch then? We're going to have to pay for something, maybe we have to put fuel in the cars

@carlos82 They will make money on Rocket Passes and in their store. I take it, you don’t play it?

@OmegaStriver I did for the first year or so, those weren't a thing back then

Well they can didn't Epic buy them out who have Tencent at 40+% shareholders they can afford it as well with the money they've made off sales before it went free for ps+

And with that since it went free expect some to complain they want a game as a replacement as I remember seeing that with Destiny 2

Great news. May get us back into it especially with cross play!

@carlos82 I bought 1 Rocket Pass and you can earn enough credits to get another. I spent 10 dollars once a few years ago and have been able to get every Rocket Pass since. You earn 70 new items over 70 levels and then color or special variations after that for each level. The levels are very easy to earn and probably the easiest and fastest I’ve seen in a game.

@Flaming_Kaiser They have a season pass which is every 15 or 16 weeks and blueprints which you can buy outright. The implementation is way better than the prior Lootboxes but its not a perfect option by any stretch.

@carlos82 It's stopped selling, in Smyths toy store it was on sale for £8.99 and was one of the cheapest games on show and they have a boss selection! (Go Smyths BTW great display and will likely drop in more often now).

Love me some Rocket League however I have reached a point when the aesthetical incentives have now lost their luster. A couple of thing Psyonix can fix to keep the interest.

• make the rumble modes items appear a bit less frequently, it's too chaotic to be enjoyed as a main game mode. It's like if in Mario Kart you constantly got red shelled.
• Have a designable home ground for matches. So you can pick a few templates with added extras like colour schemes, flags and chants.
• Have a teammate rating system for people you are happy to be teamed with rather than just a reporting tool for idiotic behaviour. It would stop toxicity if you had a tracker of positive votes.

@OmegaStriver I might have a few games and see if I can get back into it

@carlos82 no doubt they will monotize everything they can, with the recent ruling in the uk regarding loot boxes they better watch their step carefully

But I'm glad it's free, i would have never paid money for this game (never did got it free on plus) with all the shenagains that went on with this game.

If they don't bring the workshop maps to consoles I'm going to be very sad.

Hoping they finally let me transfer my pc stuff to ps4 account via epic. Only got a gaming laptop see so when it went crossplay i went back to the ps4. Point is i have nice things on that pc account going to waste lol

I've been playing it quite a lot more recently. Great game

So basically, as a reward for buying the game, we get loads of DLC free? Nice! Only problem is I don't have PS Plus, which we need to play 1 online game to get the stuff. What's the cheapest possible PS Plus subscription I can buy?

Still in my pile of shame, so I better get on and embarrass myself online again to get the freebies.

Just need to play 1 online match before the FTP day?
Any particular modes?

@RainbowGazelle https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/09/ps_plus_will_not_be_required_for_rocket_league_soon The article says you'll no longer need PS+ to play from September!

@Shinishii Yeah, I noticed the article! Thanks! Great news!

Also, nice smegging avatar.