Rocket Arena Added to EA Access After Two Weeks, Price Plummets

To be honest, this always looked like it should have been Free-to-Play even before I read the PushSquare review.

I’m gonna buy it and give them some support. Let’s hope they can build up a player base.

This is kind of like someone introducing a new social media platform to rival Facebook. Even if it's better, it's just not going to happen. Same with this, Fortnite is too big now to compete with.

Oh well, i cant speak for other people but it didnt catch my eye, but the fact that its a paid game just killed any possibility of me trying it out. Hopefully this gives the game some life so the devs can at least make some money.

F for the people that bought this at launch.

@tomassi Tell that to Myspace.

Just because Facebook is the current best, doesn't mean something better won't come around and take it's place. Facebook took over because it was revolutionary, with the wall, and other similar cutting edge social media technology that separated it from the current leader, which at the time was myspace.

However, in this particular instance, this game has little innovation, and certainly not enough to steal the crown from Fortnite.

@Grindagger

Myspace never had anywhere near as big a global population as Facebook or Fortnite has. The 'innovator' is always the one that gets forgotten (PUBG anyone?).

Once something gets as big and ingrained in society and the worlds population as Facebook and Fortnite have become it becomes EXTREMELY hard to get people (most people are sheep who are happy to stick to their routines) to switch to something new (even if it is better).

Why anyone would actually want to spend money on trying to compete with things like Fortnite instead of making something new and different is crazy (as every other Battle Royale that no one plays can attest).

@tomassi You can't compare Facebook at it's peak to Myspace at it's peak, when social media was still in it's infancy stage.

Myspace at the time was the leading social media platform generating in excess of 70 million unique visits a month before the rise of Facebook (that was insanely huge at the time, circa 2007 ish).

When Facebook came out it was the underdog, it had to work to move the userbase that was entrenched in myspace culture at the time of it's arrival. The reason it worked, was because it had an amazing amount of financial investment, as well as innovation to shoot it into the stratasphere.

In much the same manner, Fortnite may be the current leader, but that doesn't mean it will be forever. Minecraft came before it, it's only a matter of time before the next big game takes it's place.

In regards to PUBG, that game didn't have the same mass appeal that Fortnite did, which was aimed at the young and old market alike and because of that it was able to hit such a wide demographic.
Once Battle Royales have been done to death, something else will come along in due course to replace it.

@Grindagger Minecraft is still king though

Its a great game released in a bad launch window so they have themselves to blame

EA is dumb and greedy, a $40 multiplayer only game with mtx and season pass, like, really? At least be greedy only and release it as ftp game..

@Abeedo Ok, fair enough, bad example. But there isn't really anything that comes along thats been able to provide a better experience at what its trying to do than minecraft, so it makes sense that it's still the best at what it does.

There are plenty of world builders, but nothing that can appeal to the widest demographic that minecraft does.

These games all share one thing in common, mass appeal. I still say though, eventually these games will wane, as new technology takes hold and better games become available.

Even World Of Warcraft has eventually sustained heavy losses due to it's tech being so behind the times. And you have people who have invested over a decade in their characters, and yet the numbers continue to dwindle.

@Grindagger The difference is that even my 69-year-old parents and non-geek friends know Fortnite. At its peak MySpace had less than 4% of Facebook's users. I don't know anyone IRL who had an account and it certainly wasn't a household name. In the US it'd maybe be different since I get the impression almost all its users were there. But it's kind of like comparing the popularity of Lycos to Google.

What's gonna beat Fortnite is the next huge fad being a different genre, not a copycat.

@Matroska

Myspace was huge

disgusting EA as per, full price game with mobile game free to play mechanics

@blacklivesmatter No it wasn't, I just said it had less than 4% the peak users Facebook has had. Thing is, most MySpace users were in America (they'd boast that 1 in 4 Americans had a MySpace account which'd be about 75 million people and MySpace had 100 million monthly users at peak, compared to 2.6 billion for FB) so if you're from there its popularity would seem to have been more than it actually was.

@Grindagger Fortnite hasn't taken over Minecraft though, they are both as popular as ever. There is no way another battle royale game is coming out that will over take Fortnite, and there is no way a new social media platform akin to Facebook is going to come out and blow that out of the water. It's too well established amongst the global population for people to even bother to start using something different. Same as iphones or ipads. People stick with what they know and are used to for the majority of the time, regardless of whether there are better models out there.

Trying to get the Fortnite audience to play Rocket Arena is like trying to get all of the football fans in the world to start following cricket instead, or getting the whole of the US to start using bitcoin instead of dollars.

@Matroska Again, you're comparing Facebook in the peak of the digital social media age against a social media platform that was still a developing platform.

Myspace didn't command the numbers facebook did, but much like currency and inflation, at the time (2007) MySpace was a big deal, it was the pinnacle of personal social media before emerging tech like FB and Twitter took over.

@tomassi Let's revisit this conversation in 20 years.

I'm not saying they're going anyway anytime soon, but everything can be beaten by something else, otherwise we've doomed the internet, and indeed our ability to seek out new experience to rusting away in perpetuity.

Innovation breeds new experiences. Something one day will come along and trump it's predecessor through a new way of experiencing whatever it was that was being provided. It's only a matter of time.

Literally the only things on the internet which I feel are almost completely detached from this course are probably Google's search engine, and YouTube (at least until there is a new way of experiencing media that takes precedence over the current status quo).

For me, even for free it would be too expensive...

@thiz That would resemble a decent point if joining MySpace was illegal at the time, like women voting was for so long. Since it was rightfully legalised, about 80% of women in the UK vote. With MySpace, it was something that everyone was free to do but only slightly more than 1% did - so I don't think that's a good example of something that was so popular no one could imagine it being beaten. And with a point that bad you should be wary of bringing IQ into an argument.

Fall guys not rocket arena

Scrap out much cash out of a dying horse then take it round the stable and put it out of its misery.

It will be shut down by end of year

I know that people want EA to bomb but I am sad with these news...The devs must pour out their soul into these games but then they don't pick up becuase there are so many similar games...if this was on PSPLUS it would have more success

@thiz Do not worry man,she will see this.
JK.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeGameFindings/comments/i1m1hs/origin_ps_xbox_game_rocket_arena_standard_edition/

You can get it on the PS4 for free

I didn’t even know about this game until I was scrolling through Origin Access Premier the other day on my PC haha. Damn, that’s pretty bad it’s that cheap already.

I didnt buy it but i hope they give the people some of the digital extra's who bought the game at full price.