Harkening back to the days when Rocket League found its audience as a free PlayStation Plus title, the game is going to be free, permanently. Rocket League is making the move to free to play this summer, following a large content update and a release on the Epic Games Store. The game will be getting a menu revamp, while also improving the way in-game tournaments work, and adding crossplay for the new EGS version. If you've previously bought the game and played online at least once, you'll be "rewarded" with a few perks in the form of in-game items. All DLC will be unlocked for you, you'll get a custom player title that shows the year you first played the game, over 200 items you can equip on your car that will now be considered "legacy" cosmetics, a player banner, and a special boost and wheels. All of those items will be given once Rocket League makes the switch to free to play sometime this summer.

However, the game will be leaving Steam. Those who already own it there will continue to be able to play it there, but new players on PC will have to get it via Epic.

Once Rocket League goes free to play, anyone who already owns Rocket League on any platform (including Steam) will be able to play and enjoy the game with full support for future updates and features. However, the Steam version will no longer be available to download for new players. To put it simply, wherever you play now (including Steam), you'll still be able to play in the future.

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[Subtle Demise]

The game was already monetized like a f2p game. No idea why they were charging money for it, but it's been on game pass and similar for so long it might as well have been free to play this whole time.

 

[Dr.Hacknik]

Pirating a free game?

Maybe they pirated royalty free music for YouTube too? Gotta get that generic_rock_track.mp3 somehow

 

[Armadillo]

Why would you pirate rocket league? Game is pointless offline.

 

[bobmcjr]

Rocket League



Is Gone

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Now who could've seen this coming when Tencent-Epic bought them?

 

[Quarions]

Rocket League


Is Gone

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Now who could've seen this coming when Tencent-Epic bought them?

Shut up please

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

if i own the game i keep getting content.

What does that mean for free users? Pay for new updates?

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Ahh yes i rember this Epic litterally bought the game devs after it got popular and ported to everything now they get to screw over people who bought it on steam and consoles make it F2Pand P2W and add loot boxes. why isn't this illegal yet?

Didnt they literally REMOVE loot boxes upon the epic acquisition?

 

[SANIC]

The bruh moment when I only played on stream with Chary for 5 minutes because I cancelled my Sonic Mania preorder to buy RL

 

[pickinanameainteasy]

Is this going to only be for PC?

 

[Deleted member 445482]

So on top of ditching linux and mac, they also remove it from steam? Trash devs.

 

[leon315]

Pirating a free game?

the meme was ''If any games lefts STEAM and goes to EGS, pirates will pirate that game for sure.

 

[Dubbicakes]

The game was fantastic 'til they added blueprints, real shame.

 

[BlastedGuy9905]

nevermind.

 

[Kioku]

So on top of ditching linux and mac, they also remove it from steam? Trash devs.

This isn't really news. They said they were moving it the EGS... I know it wasn't explicitly stated, but it was heavily implied.

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Well at least more people will be able to play the game now.


MacOS and Linux users are still fucked though.

Something big needs to happen for Linux. Getting tired of Windows and its "fake admin" shit.

 

[Deleted member 397813]

The Epic Games haters are very retarded ngl

as a epic gamer hater, im not epic games because HAHA FORTNITE BAD TIKTOK BAD REDDIT GOOD
Its just that the servers aren't the greatest compared to steam's

 

[brunocar]

I FUCKING CALLED IT, I KNEW IT, epic doesnt give a shit about the consumer, they literally did all this shit just so they could remove the game right out of player's hands.

 

[Lumstar]

This is a seismic shift in Epic's modus operandi. They bought out the development studio, as opposed to "merely" paying for exclusivity.

 

[Mythical]

Nice that they've fucked linux and mac os users in the arse. Rocket leauge's linux port tended to run worse nativly than on wine, but still fuck epic.

mac os and linux are less than 5% of the steam user database. Makes sense they would have other priorities.

 

[VartioArtel]

Dun think I've seen anyone else post this...

But wasn't Rocket League the one that was gonna abandon Steam back when Epic Lame Store launched, then the fan outcry was so severe they backpeddled? Are you telling me they didn't learn their lesson?

 

[Bladexdsl]

The game has got 300k+ positive reviews on STEAM alone.

watch all them reviews change to negative now

 

[Edgarska]

I was thinking I might finally try it, but then that last sentence hit. No thanks.