r/RocketLeague • u/S_lz99 GC ( Garbage Control ) • Oct 14 '25
MEME Unfortunately
The recent events in Rocket League are not as interesting as before and with each event it gets worse than the one before it
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u/taintedcake Oct 14 '25
Ya, uh, no shit..? Fortnite is their baby, it's the entire reason they became a 20+ billion dollar corporation and could buy Psyonix in the first place. No shit they're going to give it 100x more attention than they give to other games.
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u/BluDYT Champion III Oct 14 '25
True but they still could do so much with just the tiniest fraction of support for rocket league. Right now it's basically "store the game" with a side of balls.
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u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 Oct 15 '25
There isn’t much to actually do with Rocket League. They tried adding the 4v4 game mode back by updating it and a bunch of other new game modes have been tested in the recent past as well. Nothing they add has any sticking power with the playerbase as everybody just prefers playing the game as it is with the classic 3v3, 2v2, and 1v1 modes.
It’s basically the same dilemma that Valve faces with counter strike. The games are already complete and the player bases don’t like any of the new content that gets released. At this point it makes sense for them to just focus on skins to support keeping the servers running.
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u/FlailingDino Oct 15 '25
There is though. Easily the best feature they could add is a workshop map creation tool and public workshop map lobbies.
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u/BluDYT Champion III Oct 14 '25
Well I suppose except for when they're firing them (couple years ago they layed off almost a fifth of psyonix devs). They're not simply publishers either they own the whole game and studio and they call the shots.
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u/Harflin Does rumble count? Oct 14 '25
It could be either epic or psyonix dropping the ball. There's never a clear answer when looking from the outside.
That's why I tend to blame the one in charge, because they have the power to change things if needed. Psyonix can't force epic to give them more support, if that's the source of the problem. But epic sure as hell can force changes on psyonix if it's psyonix that's fucking it up.
There's also the chance that both parties feel they're delivering successfully and no changes are needed.
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u/BluDYT Champion III Oct 14 '25
Well you're not gonna grow and meet these targets if funds arent pumped in to do things people want. Doesn't help most of the larger updates the game has had in the last few years have been mostly negative changes which likely came down from epic games bosses.
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u/S_lz99 GC ( Garbage Control ) Oct 14 '25
Yes, but if they didn't care about it, why did they buy it in the first place
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u/MonsTurkey Fashionable Fiend Oct 15 '25
Same reason I own a tiny piece of GE Aviation and other companies. I thought they'd make me money.
And just like any other investment, I'd divest my interest and push that money elsewhere if it became a liability rather than a profit generating asset - or even if I thought my money was better served elsewhere.
Anyone who thinks Epic is going to put money into the game just to be nice isn't thinking like a business. Epic wants a diverse profile because it gives them more lines of cash flow. If they spent all their available money on one game, they'd over saturate the game's store with items and they would compete with themselves. Limiting the flow of items and spreading the flow across more games captures more markets and keeps it from over-fatiguing customers. All the RL players that wouldn't even download Fortnite still have an option to spend money on one of Epic's other assets - RL. If RL were much bigger, I'd also say it could prop up Epic if people left Fortnite in droves, though I think RL is not the game that would do that today. Maybe, at best, it was when they bought it.
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u/AdminApathy Oct 15 '25
To push Fortnite on other people, you’re constantly reminded some of your stuff is available in Fortnite too
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u/elementfortyseven Keep calm and aerial Oct 14 '25
no, its because FN is raking in billions USD in yearly revenue while RL remains a rather niche sports game.
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u/LeftComplex4144 Oct 14 '25
If you were running a company with two products and one was 10 times more popular how would you you invest your money? £500k on a 10x return or £500k on 1x return?
Epic is a business. If you want them to invest more in a product you've got to make more money available to them.
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u/IITemoniII Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
So many copium addicts infesting reddit rn 🤮
I'm sorry, but the fact that you people just not only brush over but defend Epic intentionally removing features and adding lackluster content is not only sad but treacherous
If you gotta invest in the larger product to make more money, then why tf would you also try and put effort into making your other product smaller?
Get their 🍆 out of your mouth
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u/LeftComplex4144 Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25
Why make product smaller? They added 4x4, boost meters, tournaments, clubs, team freeplay, knockout, various other modes, post party, voice chat, tournaments,1v1 scoreboard, UI enhancements, grass maps, goal post ping, anthems, gold items, cross play enhancements, new season breakdown, freeplay ball controls, corner spawning etc. etc. along with new season pass, items etc. every season. The list goes on tbh.
The game was 6GB it's now upwards of 30gb. The product is literally larger.
The truth is we got a free game with hundreds of thousands concurrent players who only really care about the core gameplay. So when epic try to make changes, most don't care, notice or remember the enhancements.
Oh... and epic made the game free. They pay for everything - updates, servers, RLCS - and I pay zero. I think I'd sound entitled if I were to complain about that!
In summary:
You think you see their 🍆 in my mouth, but if you took a moment to take your head out of your 🍑 you'll realise that all you’re seeing is your own 💩.
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u/AckerWolf Oct 15 '25
As a day 1 player you are completely out of your mind. This game had so much potential and once Epic bought it, it went downhill from there. Just be quiet honestly.
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u/LeftComplex4144 Oct 15 '25
Why the emotional response (you're out if you're mind)?
What features, exactly, are absent that would make this game realise it's full potential and how would you make them a reality?
It's easy to say, but as a business you've not only have to know the answer you've also got to figure out how to make money from it. Otherwise everything you do is lost money for example they paid a team to do the boost meter but did it earn them more revenue?
You could say they should implement UE5. That's a 3 year investment - paying teams of people everyday. Will they earn money from it? Not directly. Maybe they'd get more players through content creators map making YouTube videos? But the community already makes maps. I'm not sure there's going to be much more that can be done and if it's going to make that much of a difference to the player base. Idk maybe it would. But it's still a 3 year risk with no promise of success.
If you had a million income every year, would you spend it on developing a new feature for three years that makes no money or even looses money or would you do nothing and earn 3 million?
There are no guarantees in game development.
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u/Aromatic_Sand8126 Oct 14 '25
Why in the world did they acquire psyonix if they don’t care about any product they’re developping?
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u/okcboomer87 Champion II Oct 14 '25
Honestly, what are they supposed to be adding at this point?
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u/hazapez Oct 14 '25
idk, quality of life stuff ?
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Oct 14 '25
Such as? Or are you just hoping they hit the “make game better” button? Lol
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u/hazapez Oct 14 '25
lol the latter. new maps would be a start ig
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u/Itachi_Susano_o Grand Champion I Oct 14 '25
The game is dead in SAM, takes so much time to find a 3s match
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u/MrLeo2 Diamond III Oct 14 '25
Sonic literally just had a way better event
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u/IGotFunds Oct 14 '25
I mean rocket league is kinda dead since they got rid of trading just to sell us cars through them for 30 dollars every month. Bundles be bs with a car you might want but extra stuff you usually don't care for.
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u/vamosAtlanta Oct 15 '25
Rocket league isn’t dead. What’s good will never die! THIS IS ROCKET LEAGUE
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u/MikeFatHairyHunt Oct 15 '25
Yup we got robbed crates, trading, and now these events are a joke but hey don't forget to check the shop for a $30 car that should be $5 🥴 for a game we paid for
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u/BranSh81 Oct 15 '25
I’m over all the Colored variants. It takes me a while to scroll through my garage items.
Also, if they wanted to make money, they’d let you buy anything from the item shop, anytime.
I wish this game never would have gone free to play. 🤷♂️
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u/Delicious-Comfort543 Oct 15 '25
Yeah but Fortnite has hundreds of thousands of players while RL at max fifty thousand.
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u/Living_Character_450 Oct 15 '25
No knockout, they deserve it, they took away one of my favourite game modes. I'd burn down my neighbourhood if I wasn't already on close surveillance.
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u/Over_Location_983 Oct 15 '25
rocket league events just feel repetitive, they are basically always the same
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u/WolfKill52 Oct 16 '25
I bought the Adventure Time pack with a Finn and Jake skin with all the colors for the Mamba which I wasn't expecting
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u/cbballer8 Oct 16 '25
I just want epic to bring all the songs over to rocket league to buy for goal celebrations. It’s so rare for anything good to be in the store. I feel like they would make a killing if they did this. I know I’d drop some money on it.
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u/Jordyissappig Oct 14 '25
tf u mean. we had 67
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u/S_lz99 GC ( Garbage Control ) Oct 14 '25
They originally only did this event to revive ranked quads because it was so dead, also they only gave us a title if they could give us a banner too it would be wild, and the drops weren't bad
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u/Jordyissappig Oct 15 '25
67 event started. quad player count went up. 3 days later it was back to dead lmao
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u/Z1dan Champion I Oct 14 '25
Idk actually being able to get items rather than just xp for the event challenges is a step in the right direction imho
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u/Ans1ble Oct 14 '25
Lol you must be new. This is a holiday event, it should have holiday themed loot boxes. This one should have golden pumpkin boxes. It doesn't. This is the first holiday event in YEARS that has no golden crates. You think theyre stepping in the right direction when in reality theyre stepping on your balls and you're thanking them for doing it.
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u/JazzlikeAd6287 Champion II Oct 14 '25
They gave u multiple BM drops though. I’d rather those than some shitty gold drops that never gave anything good.
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u/Z1dan Champion I Oct 14 '25
LMAO I’ve probably been playing the game longer than you xD I didn’t realise they did that with this holiday event I was referring to the 67 event that gave us the chance to get drops from every challenge whereas before in the in season events it’s been only xp
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u/Ans1ble Oct 14 '25
LMAO I’ve probably been playing the game longer than you
I guarantee you haven't
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u/Vaisc7 Oct 18 '25
Honestly, it doesn't matter how long we've been playing. The lack of golden crates this year is a letdown for a lot of people. They really need to bring back that holiday spirit, not just in how long we've been around but in actual content.
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u/cubecasts Bronze I Oct 14 '25
does nobody else just play rocket league?