Rocket League becomes "free-to-play", removed from Steam

[takagi19]

Rocket League has been removed from Steam as it becomes free-to-play. The game can now only be acquired thru Epic Games store. Aside from that, user also gets a $10 coupon that can be applied as a discount for the next purchase.

 

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Rocket League has been delisted on Steam as part of the game’s transition to free-to-play on all platforms. This means that new players will only be able to download the game via Epic Games Store.

Notice: At the request of the publisher, Rocket League® is unlisted on the Steam store and will not appear in search.

Interestingly, Epic Games Store is offering a 10 USD coupon for players who download the game its games launcher.

An Epic Coupon is applied at checkout when purchasing eligible games on the Epic Games Store. All Epic Coupons received for placing an order for Rocket League on Epic Games Store will expire on November 1st, 2:59 AM EST.

 

I just found out about Rocket League becoming free-to-play on one of the Facebook groups I'm currently in. I was actually waiting for this to become on sale on Steam until someone posted that it's now free on Epic Games. I tried checking my wishlist on Steam, but Rocket League is now gone, which is how I found this news. I hope that this won't affect the gameplay as more users can now play the game.

 

Sources

https://www.gaminginstincts.com/rocket-league-removed-from-steam/

https://www.slashgear.com/rocket-league-disappears-from-steam-heres-why-23639537

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

Yep, got that notification to this morning too. 

 

$10 store credit, cross play enabled (I think?), might as well.

[Aereldor]

Almost paying you to play Rocket League. Pretty nice.

[hollyh88]

"Free to play on all platforms". Eh no.  

[TotallyNotGigabit]

2 hours ago, takagi19 said:

Rocket League has been delisted on Steam as part of the game’s transition to free-to-play on all platforms. This means that new players will only be able to download the game via Epic Games Store

Nice and all, but not exactly all platforms then if Steam isn't in the "all platforms", is it? Kind of leeching away Steam's game library.

 

This sucks.

[ravenshrike]

1 hour ago, James Evens said:

$10 coupon valid for purchases equal or above $14.99. So not the same as store credit. Keep also in mind that some payment methods add cost and there is still no shopping cart.

Wat? How is there still no shopping cart. Wasn't that on the roadmap for under 6 months a year and a half ago?

[Gamer Schnitzel]

I hope more devs move away from Steam. Let their fanboys cry and continue harassing devs and games for not being available on Steam. Monopolies like this shouldn't exist, especially not private companies that do not publish their profits.

The only reason HL3 is not coming and will NEVER come is because Gabe realized he sits on a pot of fucking money and will never have to lift a finger in his life again with exception of making new avatars for the braindead Steam community to buy with real money to make their shitty profiles prettier.

[demonix00]

9 hours ago, Gamer Schnitzel said:

I hope more devs move away from Steam. Let their fanboys cry and continue harassing devs and games for not being available on Steam. Monopolies like this shouldn't exist, especially not private companies that do not publish their profits.

The only reason HL3 is not coming and will NEVER come is because Gabe realized he sits on a pot of fucking money and will never have to lift a finger in his life again with exception of making new avatars for the braindead Steam community to buy with real money to make their shitty profiles prettier.

Excuse me, but you do know that epic was trying to BUY exclusivity for their store.

 

Wouldn't you call that trying to become a monopoly and bringing down the other available storefronts.

 

Also, their anti cheat is a huge middle finger to the linux gaming community because no matter what they say, they want you to play games using an OS that isn't fit for purpose considering how much M$ breaks with each update.

 

And NO I'm not a steam fanboy because I started buying games through GoG, and Epic is not going to get a single penny from me as long as they continue to act like anti-competitive a-holes.

[bigboy69420]

Is there anyway to play with my friend who has rocket league on steam using the epic game's version of rocket league?

[Mark Kaine]

1 hour ago, demonix00 said:

Excuse me, but you do know that epic was trying to BUY exclusivity for their store.

 

Wouldn't you call that trying to become a monopoly and bringing down the other available storefronts.

 

Also, their anti cheat is a huge middle finger to the linux gaming community because no matter what they say, they want you to play games using an OS that isn't fit for purpose considering how much M$ breaks with each update.

 

And NO I'm not a steam fanboy because I started buying games through GoG, and Epic is not going to get a single penny from me as long as they continue to act like anti-competitive a-holes.

I agree, steam isn't perfect but they do a lot of things right, especially feature wise. and it's obvious whatever epic *says* they would not be better they'd be worse...

 

can't really say much about gog, idea isn't bad, game selection lacking tho and some of their policies at least questionable. (like they removed my "cash back" money because I didn't log in for a while, haven't used it since...)

[The1Dickens]

You can still go to the page, though. Likely still able to download and start the game, too. I know I can do this with Nosgoth (though, since the servers are down, nothing happens).

 

Though, I've seen plenty of people saying you now need an Epic account to play it... Don't know how that works. If anyone has it currently installed, and wants to try and report back, it might help some folks. Otherwise, I can try to install it and go from there, if folks care enough.

[Bad5ector]

I'm not giving Epic Games any of my business if I can help it. Games using the Unreal engine being the exception (since that's basically all of them).

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

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The game can now only be acquired thru Epic Games store

*Wink wink nudge nudge* Totally not slowly becoming the villain here. Complains about monopolies, slowly builds their own monopoly. 

[Letgomyleghoe.]

Do we even need to consider Epic game store as a digital video game distributor? I think it'll be easier to think of them as their own console like platform that makes games exclusive which everybody hates them for.

[MoozOfDoomz]

This is why I'm really glad EA is putting their games on steam instead of keeping them origin exclusive. They seem to be going on the right track, Epic on the other hand? No.

[Mihle]

What we should aim for is that all games is on all stores/launchers. That way it's up to the consumers to choose stores/launchers based on their features, and they get more incentive to have the best features and gui.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

lol, I posted this over a week ago.

 

[RejZoR]

Haven't tried it before, now that's Epic exclusive, I'm still not gonna try it even though my entire Epic account pretty much only exists as free games hoarding account lol. It satisfies my inner hamster, but I don't really use it. I would if Epic wasn't so cocky and arrogant about all of it that it just makes me not want to use it. I much rather stick around GOG. They roll in totally different, more pleasant way.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

12 minutes ago, Mihle said:

What we should aim for is that all games is on all stores/launchers. That way it's up to the consumers to choose stores/launchers based on their features, and they get more incentive to have the best features and gui.

Of course that would be the best case scenario for consumers. But then game publishers would complain about something else as this is really just about the

money. 

 

1 minute ago, RejZoR said:

Haven't tried it before, now that's Epic exclusive, I'm still not gonna try it even though my entire Epic account pretty much only exists as free games hoarding account lol. It satisfies my inner hamster, but I don't really use it. I would if Epic wasn't so cocky and arrogant about all of it that it just makes me not want to use it. I much rather stick around GOG. They roll in totally different, more pleasant way.

I actually have one myself just for Overcooked and now reconsidering if I even want to redownload their launcher after I've reinstalled Windows. 

[Mihle]

3 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Of course that would be the best case scenario for consumers. But then game publishers would complain about something else as this is really just about the

money. 

 

I actually have one myself just for Overcooked and now reconsidering if I even want to redownload their launcher after I've reinstalled Windows. 

I will never use Epics one because what they do, and will use GOG whenever it's possible.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

2 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

actually have one myself just for Overcooked and now reconsidering if I even want to redownload their launcher after I've reinstalled Windows. 

I have Hitman, GTAV, and both Watch Dogs on there for free,  so like 3 $60 games.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, Mihle said:

I will never use Epics one because what they do, and will use GOG whenever it's possible.

which what they do are you talking about?

 

[Teddy07]

I hope Epic Store succeeds, because Steams 30% cut is highway robbery

[Helpful Tech Witch]

2 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

I hope Epic Store succeeds, because Steams 30% cut is highway robbery

No, steams cut is "theft, period."

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

9 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

I have Hitman, GTAV, and both Watch Dogs on there for free,  so like 3 $60 games.

Ha... I had Wash Doge on UPlay. Guess this brings me to another point as to why I don't like this whole Epic Store Battle thing. I had like 7 different Game Stores/ Launchers back then. 

1. Steam - L4D2 and a bunch of other stuff
2. Battle.net - Destiny 2 which has since moved to Steam
3. UPlay - Wash Doge
4. Origin - When I played Battlefield 3 which I still do periodically
5. Nexon Launcher - For when I still played Maplestory from time to time 
6. Valofe - When I still played Combat Arms (yea I played that heaping pile when it first came out with Nexon)
7. Epic - for Overcooked

Definitely did not appreciate having 7 different game launchers/ stores, definitely would not like having something similar happen to my phone.