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[PC, PS4, XB1, Switch] Rocket League - Free-to-Play Permanently

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When the game makes its transition to free to play. It will become available on the Epic Games Store and no longer available on Steam.


Nintendo has accidentally revealed the release date for Rocket League going to free to play.

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Per the original blog -

Anyone who has played Rocket League online before the launch of free to play will be rewarded with Legacy status, which includes:

All Rocket League-branded DLC released before free to play

  • "Est. 20XX" title that displays the first year you played Rocket League
  • 200+ Common items upgraded to "Legacy" quality
  • Golden Cosmos Boost
  • Dieci-Oro Wheels
  • Huntress Player Banner

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Comments

  • been waiting for this a while. my friends already playing cross-play on pc, ps4 and switch.

    • -1

      It's on gamepass

      • -1

        And your point is? Actually you just proved my point!!!
        Now there's 2 way to play RL on xbot. Pay up to Gold Live or pay up to Game Pass….LMAO!
        Meanwhile PC, PS4, Switch isn't locked up behind a paywall. That's hilarious!

        • +2

          It’s going free with or without game pass.

          Not sure how many people who would want to play this online wouldn’t have gold already or ultimate

  • Can't wait!!!

  • and no longer available on Steam.

    Epic must have paid this game developer a lot of money

    • +7

      It's almost as if Epic acquired the developers and made the business decision to move what is now their own game to their own store…

      • -1

        A scummy move regardless. Especially for the people who have it on Steam already and don't want to sign up for an Epic account

        • The people who have it on Steam already can keep playing regardless. So, where is the problem?

          • @Lysander: Because some of us don't want an Epic account and don't want our details harvested by a chinese backed unethical company?
            Are you sure you aren't employed by Epic, you seem to basically be Epic fan #1

            • @CriticalImpact: Maybe better check all of their stakes - say goodbye to gaming.

              Plus you are totally miss the point ( see your comment above).

              If you already own the game on Steam you can just play it there and have nothing to do with Epic - so what is the problem????
              Do you understand? You can keep playing it on Steam even after it cannot bought there anymore - just let Gabe and the "agencies" harvest your data.

              Oh, by the way: ever heard of signing up as Joe Bloggs as for freebies no payment method is necessary. Then the Chinese have another Joe Bloggs in their records - I am sure that will excite them. 😊😊😊

      • How monopolistic of them!

        Anti-trust lawsuit coming in 3, 2…

    • Epic bought out Psyonix.

  • +3

    I played this game a lot years ago but had to stop because I was getting extremely angry at my teammates. I've never got as angry as I have in any other game. I'm not sure what it is about this game.

    I will be picking it up on switch though and hopefully I can contain myself.

    • Just playing on the switch makes me angry, it's def not the best way to play

  • 10GB download on the Switch. WTF? I don't have enough storage space for that >:(

    • 17GB for PS4

    • Was 6GB for me on Switch

    • if it's anything like dota most of it is just textures for hats they want to sell you, and this includes all hats that were ever created hence it just creeps larger and larger, kind of aids actually but hey its free

  • I bought this game for the Switch years ago and have never played it!.. I'll probably play it now that it's free…. (odd that).

    • I bought it on Switch when I first got the Switch expecting to be able to Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! anywhere i wanted! However I didn't realise how hard it would be using the switch controller, on such a small screen, and needed $$ subscription with Nintendo to play online!

  • never played it, does that mean that it's more of a micro transaction type game moving forward?

    • Ye, you can spend $100's on crappy cosmetics, so expansive but don't really need it to play at all
      I used to buy battle pass and odd dlc to support the developer but now it's so expansive to buy decals its scummy as

      • ooh right as long as its not Pay2Win then i'm ok with decals n stuff costing money i can ignore it… but f2p vs p2p, well we all know which way the advantages gets skewed..

  • Wonder if they will have problems with all the smurfs in the lower rankes…

  • Is anyone else having trouble signing into the PlayStation Store website?

    EDIT: Never mind, it's working now.

  • +1

    The problem with Rocket League is the smurf accounts and making this game free will only make this worst, When you begin to get up towards the mid-tier racks of Platnium and then you begin to vs people who really should be Champion rank but they dont want to play against Champ rank they just want to feel like they are winners so you end up loosing.

    Rinse repeat this continuously and the game gets boring fast, Epic/Psyonix had no interest to try and stop this before as it made them money now the games free they really dont care especially when pro-players do it and the developers dont bat an eye lid.

    I got towards 1000 hours on RL and pretty much just quit, Whilst the games skill ceiling is extremely high you too will get annoyed when the "Matched based ranking" is absolute bullocks

    • +1

      You can't queue ranked unless you're level 10 or higher. It's something they just added with free to play. Should deter some smurfs

    • So you don't automatically get matched against someone on your level? Even EA managed to get THAT sorted with Fifa… Sounds frustrating.

    • I dont care. As long as there are no cheaters like all the fps games, im good…

  • Fun game!. Easy to pick up, difficult to master. I've played 1700hours and reached the top ranks, but still feel like I'm a noob sometimes!

  • +1

    Farcry 5 is available for $17.99 before the discount, sweet deal!

    • You know that the coupon that does not apply in that case, right?
      Only applies to games costing $22.99 or more.
      The $14.99 amount is in American dollares!

  • +1

    Played it for a weekend back in 2018 (during free-play weekend promo on Xbox One) and just booted it up again.

    Free-to-play is great, but it's better when you get all the legacy stuff for free.

    :D

  • Dammit whole weekend gone playing this stupid game. Addictive as hell. Still trying to air dribble.

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