More like 60K concurrent but I get your point. However, with all the free to play components in the game now, rocket pass, key purchases, could they make more money by making it free to play and getting more people to buy into those things who currently don’t want to pay $20 to get into it? I guess it all depends on how well the game is still selling which I’m not sure of a way to see.
I honestly don’t know the answer to this, but were any of those games already released or on sale on other stores?
Seems unnecessarily spiteful. I mean I understand future games not being on Steam, perfectly reasonable. But pulling an old one? Really? I imagine the catalog sales are negligible so whats the point in pulling it?
It isn’t evergreen like Minecraft or anything, but Rocket League has real staying power. It isn’t like a three year old Call of Duty.
Fair enough ,maybe its long tail sales are good. Still, I would have been nicer about it.
I am sure the ever valuable Steam “community” features will help in moments like this.
Oh right.
They did just release a patch to the game yesterday. I’m guessing the bad reviews are due to that and totally not the news from today.
You are a good hearted person. But sadly, no.
Give people a voice and they’ll be heard.
If you have nothing positive to say, you should not review a game. It is known.
Yeah, most reviews are content empty, that isn’t new or an exclusive to negative recommendations. But no dev is going to complain about “made glitterhoof the pope 11/10”.
It’s still better at allowing you to read something useful than, well, nothing.
Ok, gotta chuckle at the “middle finger” review.
Soma
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The next console war is a few years away. So this Steam vs. EGS is a stop-gap phoney war to keep people busy until PS5 vs. XBone 2 (?) becomes a thing.
Cue Ron Perlman: war never changes.
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I mean, you yourself say it is unnecessarily spiteful to remove it, and then you are complaining about people saying the same thing on steam. Yes they are using reviews for it (which, funnily enough, will be removed from overall scoring by Valve), since it is the most impactful way to let Epic know people are (completely understandably) not fans of games being removed from platforms where they were already successful in the first place.
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And now they’re trying to walk it back…
Epics cunning plan to sell me a thing by fucking with my core gaming infrastructure is peak Baldrick.
“We will be ‘reviewing our options’ about exclusivity while the deal is pending regulatory approval and then once it is approved we will absolutely pull Rocket League from Steam; we just want to avoid internet anger in the meantime.”
They can leave Rocket league on Steam as a demo for the Epic Store exclusive: Rocket League 2: Microtrashactions
Having never actually played the game, can someone explain the negativity around removing it from sale from Steam (which I guess isn’t the plan anymore/supposedly never was)? Is it a concern about the multi-player drying up or something?
That’s not walking it back, that’s reiterating the same position that most people have read through the PR speak on. Here’s how you walk it back: “Rocket League will not be removed for purchase from Steam.”
Yeah, they just restated what they originally said, bur with more words.
I don’t know. I have almost 700 hours in the game and play it almost every night and have no clue why people are complaining. Everyone complaining already has it on Steam so they can just keep playing it there. The game doesn’t release any meaningful dlc so it’s not like I will need to repurchase it on Epic so I can have access to new DLC. I’m pretty sure it is going to go free to play in the not to distant future anyway so even if you do end up having to switch to Epic in the future it will probably be free.
The only thing that maybe could be lost is stuff on Steamworks which I never use. With that said, if you already own the game on Steam won’t you be able to still use steamworks with your copy? I guess maybe Epic could block that somehow?
