Surprise! Rocket League Is Going Free-To-Play This Summer

I wonder what will be behind the paywall.

I hope they include a few bonus items for people that bought the game not knowing it would eventually be free to play. I bought this game twice.

I only play couch multi on this so.. don’t care? I hope they don’t push an update to make the UI “free to play” centered with ads and sh&t. Don’t need that rubbish.

I’ll surely download it then

I kept putting off buying this. Guess that procrastination paid off.

@aznable Same here... I’ll guess we’ll know soon if paying to only play local works against us...

@NintonicGamer then you supported the developer! I mean they’ll probably give ya something, but I wouldn’t consider it guaranteed. Games that go free to play don’t always reward the early adopters, as your reward is having the game longer. It’s similar to buying a console that eventually gets price drops - they people that bought it for $400 don’t get anything free when it drops to $300, they just had earlier access to it. (3DS being an exception.)

@aznable Only mobile games can have ads.

Epic Games is really going all out trying to take the throne from Steam with all these free games and taking games from their library.

"free to play" talk makes me nervous. Already, black market explosions are $20-$22, just for one explosion.

I also don't like how i can't earn anymore credit/money after buying rocket pass & playing a ton of it. I don't understand how they can stop rewarding money. That type of baloney feels disrespectful. Free to play always feels trashy to me, no matter how good the game is.

I read elsewhere they are giving a bunch of legacy awards to people who have purchased the game before it went FTP. This will include all the DLC and all common items (over 200 of them). You have to sign online before the FTP date though t receive the rewards.

I have 100% gotten my $20 worth over the past couple years and these items are just bonuses!!

edit: subtitle should say "on the way"

I was sad I bought this lol but giving away free dlc is sorta cool so I'm ok with it now 😂😂

For those making assumptions about this F2P model, might be worth reading the article and then doing your own research.

Owners of the game prior to it going F2P will receive additional free items. New users will have the full Rocket League experience and still be able to unlock free items.

Anything that requires money will be cosmetic only as it already is in the game's current state.

I have played rocket league since release and put more hours into it than any other game in my life. From my point, its almost the perfect game.
All payed items are strictly cosmetic. The game is truly skill based with crazy amounts to learn.
The one downside is the switch version has noticeable input lag compared to pc, and the developers won't even acknowledge it :/

“we’re introducing cross-platform progression with free to play”

This was what I was waiting for. Did not want to loose my stuff or be stuck on Switch when at home.

Wish WarFrame would do this also.

I bought it on PS4 years ago but I'm happy I'll be able to play on my Switch now since I rarely play PS4 anymore.

If it was free-to-play from the start I bet it’s be twice as popular as Fortnite and Minecraft

Still need to get that physical edition, will do at some point before this happens

I knew it would be free to play.

Guess I'll be downloading it then. I never did buy it, not cause I couldn't, but I knew I wasn't going to invest the proper time. Now it'll be there whenever I can.

Cross platform progression is an exciting prospect. Wished Warframe and many other cross platform games would do that.

always thought it was free , surprised it took them this long.

I’ve put in more hours into this game than any other game in my life and I only paid £10 for it and I haven’t spent another penny since so to me it’s basically been free to play anyway. Just. One. More. Game.

@Cevil What are you talking about? Does this mean everything has a price to pay including human lives and Mother Nature? What makes you think nothing is free at all?

@TheAwesomeBowser The Switch version and not the others?

@Dayton311 its not all dlc, the licensed stuff wont be free

@Custom1991 Yeah obviously

I love the concept, but i just can't seem to get very good at the game. Still a lot of fun though. I just feel i let down anyone on my team when i play lol.

@ShadJV I love your logic, and you state it well.

I have played more than 250 hours of Rocket League and I continue to play. It is an incredible well designed game experience. Is it perfect, no. But, it is in my top 3 games. I have bought DLC for this game in part to support the devs.

Free to play makes sense at five years of this game. And, I am glad that they are trying something different rather than relying on their past success. I hope that it succeeds.

If you see a player named "dugan" with K.K. Slider as his avatar: watch out, it is me!

@NintonicGamer
You will get the following

All Rocket League-branded DLC packs 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
In addition, if you’ve played online before today’s announcement, you will also receive the Faded Cosmos Boost. Legacy rewards will be granted once the free to play version launches later this summer.

@KevTastic84 Try getting good at Snow Day (Hockey). That's how I developed my basic skills. After that gradually work your way to wall crawling and wall jumps in 2 v 2. That helped for me

@Gravitron Thanks for the advice. I don't have a lot of time to put into the game at the moment. The backlog is building. But when i return i'll give these tips a go. Thanks

@ShadJV yes, sometimes it does. I didn't buy Arkham Knight at launch and wound up getting it free on BF a year or two ago. I won't let my kids know that procrastination can pay off, though...

I abandoned this game quite a while ago and not having NSO really pushed me away completely.

Even so, I probably wouldn't come back to this game. I'm not very good with the physics in this game.

i bought the collectors edition literally five days ago, why does this sh¡t keep happening to me?

Don't misunderstand me, I'm loving it so far, but i never had the intention to spend an insane amount of time with it, and it has an amount of content more in line with something like asphalt9 than a normal retail game. I'm gonna grab my purchase ticket and go back to the store after lunch to see if I can at least exchange it for something other than a f2p game

@Cevil Of course it is. But almost always with limitations etc.

already bought and I'm ok with this. that's an insanely fun game and the more people playing, the better

Bought this when it came out on Switch but I couldn't get into it. Maybe it's time to give it another go.

"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."

So the Linux version is coming back?

First they screwed me, now anyone who paid for it.

@Bermanator I feel like that isn’t true... didn’t NBA 2kxx have advertisements?

Free stuff isn't so bad as long as it's exclusive; I'm pretty excited to play with my friends for once

Well it is already full of some of the most expensive dlc I've ever seen in my life. Super nice car wrap I saw the other day cost about 20 USD. That is insane for one item in a car game.

@Bermanator If a game encourages you to make in game purchases then that is an advert. Console games are full of them.

@doctorhino This is done to anchor prices in the customers mind so you can equate a value to the content. When you see that a skin 'costs' 20, you see the content available in passes, which is what they really want to sell, as a good deal.

Makes sense really, just a shame the in-game monetization is so awful, but hopefully they'll address that one day. Haven't played since probably January this year but I'll be tempted to pick it up on other platforms if I can keep my current items etc. It's a fantastic game so I'm sure I'll get the urge to play again at some point.

@BumpkinRich yeah well that might be true for those items but the blueprints are a whole other world of crazy extravagance. I mean if they make all their money off this stuff I don't see them changing the game at all. Just want more people to be tempted.

@dugan I’ve supported games that went free to play, I agree it shouldn’t be a problem. Most things get cheaper over time, and people realize that when they decide not to purchase a game until it gets a price drop. When someone buys a game at full price, they’re deciding that the price is worth having access to the game earlier rather than later, and that’s part of where value comes from. No point being jealous someone got it cheaper or for free because you had it sooner! This is a good idea because it gains them more consumers and more people get to experience it. Win-win! Thank you for being open to this, more people need that attitude rather than getting upset that they paid for something that they got enjoyment out of! (Also, I want to add to my earlier statement that in a situation like the 3DS, the reason prior consumers needed compensation for the big price drop was because there was actually very little value consumers got out of those 6 months due to the rather bare launch window - it still wasn’t something the consumers were owed for the price drop, but it was Nintendo owning up to their mistakes, rather than a simple apology for a price drop. From what I’ve heard from friends and seen from gameplay, Rocket League was absolutely worth the price it was sold at. If anything, I’ll feel a little bad nabbing it for free, but if I am having a good time I can pay the company in microtransactions.

And I’ll keep an eye out for your name, if you see someone by the name of ShadJV (provided it’s not taken) then go a little easy on him, he’ll be a noob.

@IronMan30 oh yeah, don’t let that be the lesson for the kids. If anything, the lesson is don’t pay for a luxury item until you intend to use it, as it might go down in price by then. You can always find a way to present a lesson as something positive rather than negative.

@ShadJV I like economics, I have read books on the subject. Your words are so true! Thanks for posting them.

I do hope to see you on the field, happy gaming, friend!

I wonder what day is it going to be free to play?