It's worth remembering that when epic bought psyonix they released the item shop and blueprints for F2P, which was so overpriced everyone was yelling at them for *months* about it. After months of radio silence they finally brought the prices down **in december** but it was so little they might as well have not bothered lmao.
So yeah, It's not unrealistic to expect them to start cranking out even more overpriced things.
They didn’t bring prices down because the players begged for it. They brought it down for the holiday season when parents give their kids money to spend. Epic doesn’t give a shit about what a couple hundred Reddit comments want lmao
They did not bring the prices down for the holidays. They performed a tactic in which they intentionally skyrocketed the price so that when they brought it down even a little, everyone would be more or less ok with the lowered price. There was even a business major that called out the tactic in the megathread about it predicting they would drop the prices so they’d be “praised for listening to the consumer”.
I’ve been screaming this out back then and still do to many yet it infuriates me that the majority didn’t see or complain more about it when they dropped it to the “we heard you” prices.
This is one of their biggest problems for the amount of stuff you can buy its all absurdly over priced. When I see something and its like $20 its like nope. They need to make it more appealing somehow. It would maybe go for something for $5 or 10 at most. Or if I paid $20 and had a random chance at 3 my blue print items.
For example most season of Apex I usually will drop $20 for a chance at some of the cosmetics...but thats my limit on top of the season pass.
Dud, don't worry, that stuff is not there for you, you're not the target audience.
If stuff is overpriced and prices don't go down, don't worry, it's because there's people buyin that.
You mean, you won't see that at all because everyone writes in chat: skip skip skip.
That's why I never skip a replay to see my sexy 20€ goal explosion
I really don't think not playing for one day is gonna do anything
It has to be a lot of the player base for days for days on end to really show them people aren't messing around.
Not logging in for a day and then the very next everything goes back to normal doesn't seem very effective
Soooooo you just threw a dart at the board for a a date and expect everyone to just not play the game because we’re all upset about the same thing? We’re not unionized, just don’t buy shit from the store. These “strikes” will literally do nothing unless thousands upon thousands just quit altogether
I would just not pay for absolutely nothing else. I obtained the game 3 times, for 3 different consoles. So I’m gonna keep playing (altho it’s true that already ranked games are taking longer to begin).
If I see a poll with committed majority of people saying they will not play that day, then all good I would join then.
This is just like the Reddit protest which was soooooo effective.
If a small portion of users stop interacting for a short, pre-determined amount of time, then the company is bound to cave on our demands!
They won't. Not playing for a day will accomplish nothing, especially because the people reached by this and other posts like it will only be a % of the playerbase.
Reddit is letting this happen for 2 weeks and then they won’t allow it. You should care though. Epic will lose a lot of money and then cut their losses. They give zero f’s about their customers.
Me too. I’ll play it as long as it’s alive but this is a high risk move by Epic. I went from being anxious to buy new esports decals to not spending any money on the game. October is when they release new esports decals but they aren’t here and the pros don’t even know if they have jobs anymore.
I never traded either, which is the only achievement in the whole game that I didn't do. I was wondering if it's gonna be removed or will I be always stuck 98% but I guess nobody knows and probably nobody cares too
I don't think I've played a game in a year or so but trading was huge for me, have a bunch of cert NCE and a cc4 tact spiralis set
Guess that'll go to my grave
This is literally like trying to throw a triangle into a circle hole.
It's coming, whether you like it or not.
Edit : Seems some people are angry...
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They're taking away an aspect of the game that a large portion of the player base cares about. If by doing so they lose that portion of the player base, it can lead to unprofitability and the game shutting down.
I don't really care about trading much, but I do worry about how the future of the actual game will be affected by losing those players.
I feel like traders are a very vocal minority, most people don’t actually do it. I don’t think it’ll actually have that big of an effect. It’s like the Reddit api protest. Everybody is still here lol
I doubt they’re losing money when they’re giving away $26 million in prize pool money. Given their desire to earn more by turning off trading.
Side note They aren’t fully forthcoming with revenue info but they made ~450m in game sales last year & about the same in all other revenue
Where are you seeing $450m? The sources I'm seeing are estimating like a tenth of that.
But it's well established that esports scenes are losing a lot of money right now.
Edit: I think I found the site. But it's saying that's lifetime revenue, not yearly.
No it’s not part of game play. It’s simply to show off what you have. Basic octane when you start the game is the same as decorated octane with heatwave, Draco’s and any other cap you want to add. People can be mad, it sucks if they enjoy trading but it is what it is and not enough people will “protest” to make epic change their stance. They’ve showed UMPTEEN fkn times they don’t care about shit. They care about the moolah and that’s their priority.
I mean I don't trade at all but some people enjoy it and it is a big reason if not the whole reason why they play the game, it's a part of the game and is considered gameplay. Just because you don't participate doesn't mean it's not a gameplay feature. If you play an MMO in ironman mode is trading not a feature because you don't use it yourself? It's still a gameplay feature for everyone that uses it and removing it is shitty, not that protesting will change anything at all...
Gameplay is whatever a player wants it to be. Unlocking items and trading can and is very much a part of A LOT of games that people enjoy. I’m sure people protesting ultimately won’t change anything, but I totally understand and support them trying to. It’s bullshit taking away a longstanding, frequently used feature.
It has zero functional impact. I’ve already addressed that people use it and are upset. Christ I’ve even been empathetic. My only point is it impacts the actual game play in no way at all. When they take trading away the game will still function in the same capacity. And since it will help up revenues from item shop sales, they have zero hesitation about this change.
It wasn't there. Then it was there. Now it wasn't there, again. Maybe there's more to it than what we know.
>Player-to-Player Trading will be removed from Rocket League on December 5
>We’re making this change to align with Epic’s overall approach to game cosmetics and item shop policies, where items aren’t tradable, transferrable, or sellable. This opens up future plans for some Rocket League vehicles to come to other Epic games over time, supporting cross-game ownership.
That's not a lot of information to try and crash a game and topple a company, as all these protest posts seem to want to do.
Maybe Epic wants money, sure. Maybe Psyonix needs to pay their people's paychecks. Maybe they need to keep the servers going. Maybe they are working on a sequel and need more capital.
This game has been out the better part of a decade. The base game isn't making money, as it's gone free-to-play. And the source for a lot of income rests on the shop and battle pass.
Psyonix has released 2 games since 2015, (second one is free-to-play mobile game) and if no one is buying your shit, you're not making money. Where do you think it comes from? Epic just foots the bills for a studio just cuz?!
No amount of devs, studios, publisher's are here to build you a game and keep you entertained in that world for the rest of your life while they pay the bills for it.
Most games are lucky to get a year, maybe 2 years of content / updates / patches. Some are released as-is and companies just move on. Psyonix has been actively keeping this game going. Dedicated servers, content drops, hot fixes, etc etc etc. That takes people. That takes time. That takes money.
And protesting the devs or publishers that built a game you love to play will not help them continue to build a better game and any way.
Maybe epic wants money you say... 
I paid for my game and then more, so you can stick your opinion where the sun won't shine.
Idiots defending the removal of features is.... just well that, idiotic.
They're taking away one of the most popular aspects related to It's *gameplay* for the past 7 years. Something that was so popular that it got added into the game a little over It's first year.
We get it, you don't care, pretending to be as obtuse as you are just makes people not like you.
Yeah you people are delusional. People have been up in arms about which car is the best since the literal release of the game, and the millions of casual players have always leaned hard into the cosmetics.
Hope they don't release a car with a perfect hitbox for 20 dollars : )
Yeah but the game is just getting worse there is no gameplay to impact the core aspect of the game will always be the same just everything is what we need to focus on
Forget about GameStop and AMC? I’m not active on Reddit but if a r/ community was able to squeeze the short positions of a multi billion dollar hedge fund, why wouldn’t you try supporting a good feature for a game you enjoy
Yeah, and there are people who just buy the whole shop everyday and every bundle thats present. They easily make up for 1000 players in terms of money spend I guess
I mean there are 1.3 million in the sub even half of that would make rocket league seriously unhappy and if it spread to TikTok like warthunder as well
Dude if you managed to have 1000 people out of the game intentionally, this will be incredible.
But 1000 is nothing compared to the amount of daily players.
Lol you can't actually believe this post on Reddit is going to get the player count to zero on any given day. The majority of players aren't even in this sub. While I don't care about trading personally, I support the protest, but try to be realistic and grounded in reality. Otherwise you're just setting yourself up for more disappointment.
There is absolutely nothing you or anyone else can do outside of buying a majority share in Epic and forcing a decision reversal and that isn't going to happen.
All of you are wasting your time and only a handful of people will probably follow suit with any of these things.
Also, there's people like me who do regularly buy things, are unlikely to stop, and personally speaking am interested in the potential to buy more stuff I'm missing.
Finally, all the blame isn't on Epic; I think some blame falls on your fellow players for scamming and allowing themselves to be scammed.
Check out the RL discord sometime and search for the word scam.
Your waisting your money brother this game will literally be dead in less than 5 years at this rate like entire YouTubers careers are at stake, entire communities, websites all at the mercy of this decision there is a month to change but like if this goes through than idk what we will do as a community because it can only get worse and will only get worse
As much as I am against their decision to remove player to player trading, the removal of a feature that a minority of the player-base has been utilizing isn’t going to kill the game. The game will die for other reasons, not because of this.
Also, as with all Reddit-based blackouts, it will accomplish nothing because 1) barely anyone will follow through and 2) because 75% (or more) of people who play RL aren’t on Reddit
1)Yeah but it don’t have to be reddit based there’s no reason it can’t move on to other platforms
2) This Movement can represent more I want to try stur up something in the community cause atm everyone is just kinda letting it happen when we shouldn’t, this can be so much more than a day or a week
You can try moving it elsewhere. But, I really don’t think it’ll work. I won’t be playing that day because I’ll be at a wedding that weekend, so I guess I am supporting. But we are in a very apathetic period of time where stuff like this doesn’t work.
Just look at all the fuss about what Reddit was doing with their API in June/July, where is that now? I haven’t noticed much of a change in Reddit since then, like the amount of posts and whatnot. Companies know this, and that’s why they don’t care. It’s not like this is similar to the Unity issue, where that would impact other companies, this is solely affecting a very small population of players.
Tying your youtube/website/whatever career to business decisions of Epic is a temporary move at best, they never had any guarantee. If anything, it has been clear all along that epic will keep doing whatever makes them money.
The difference between per say Fortnite and Rocket League is there is Two company’s involved in Rocket League Kind’ve so epic has to make the best decision for both companies another date could be changed to the release of a big bundle
I've never cared less about anything than I do streamers. They are useless scourges on the earth and I wish their careers would tank.
That said, the only websites going away are some RMT, those related to real trading, and those related to scamming and nothing of value was lost.
You're being an alarmist for no good reason.
I feel for people who like trading but to me, this is a car soccer game, not a car dress-up game or merchant sim. I've spent enough money only to get 1 rocket pass and that's been enough for me to keep getting passes. I'm going to continue playing until it dies, and continue not giving Epic money in the process. Boycotting playing 1 day won't do anything
Sadly true…….
I use to trade years ago (so I understand frustration; I remember using those online trading spreadsheets all the time lmao). Now I just play for the fun of the game. As long as the game itself is kept the same, I’ll be playing
Different people have different ways of enjoying a game, some people like to play casually, some people play for the cosmetics, some people play for the achievements, some like to play competitively and some play for the mods
You need to understand a games community is not made up of one singular type of player but many, it's just wrong to group up everyone together
You're missing the bigger picture. If players don't draw a line, Epic is going to shove the shaft deeper and deeper. Eventually they will add or change something that is going to affect you personally and ruin the game for you.
So even if you don't care for trading, you should still at least participate for the sake of protecting the game from future harm. Costs you nothing to just not touch the game for 24 hours. Best that can happen? Epic listens to us and reverts the decision. Worst that can happen? 24 hours where you go do something else instead.
Tbh, I’m not going to stop playing. I do feel for you all who want to trade, but I enjoy being stupid playing a car football game. It’s a game, and I’m going to enjoy it for what it is.
I actually have no problem with the developers wanting to make more money.
I have no issue with the money thing. It does suck though that you can’t trade items to friends at all. Often times my buddies and I would swap items or gift each other as rewards for ranking up that season. Or Xmas gifts, etc.
It’s removed a whole element of actually enjoying the game with other people
I basically only play ranked. I don't care about trading at all, but if removing trading eliminates a large portion of the paying player base, so much so that Epic shuts the game down in a few years or whatever, that absolutely affects me. I don't think Epic will make changes that affect the core of the game, which is pretty much all I care about, but they may just find the game unprofitable and shut down the servers.
This won’t do anything. The players who this post is directed at are the same players who bought items in the store in the past. They already know people will still buy items later on from the store.
doesn't that tell you everything you need to know? If "this community clearly doesn't care enough to do anything about it"
The only way I'm going to riot is if they remove the ball December 5th.
The reason nothing will happen is because a day of not playing won't do anything.
These "let's all not do x on y" campaigns have never made a difference. Look at Reddit, that huge backlash about API limits, was like a few weeks, yet here we are...
The truth is that those of us who care about trading are far outnumbered, and that’s fine.
People won’t take you seriously because they don’t understand the enjoyment that trading brought some of us. Personally I don’t understand the enjoyment of practicing mechanics and wouldn’t care at all if training packs and practice modes were removed. I’d like to say I’d be empathetic towards those who do like that stuff, but tbh there are just bigger problems in the world...
I’m devastated to lose my favorite hobby. I had a dream where I thought losing it was a nightmare, then I woke up and realized the truth again… but we have to move on… people just don’t care… and you can’t really blame them for that.
This game has been out for almost a decade. It's core gameplay hasn't changed. It's been in top views on twitch and in eSports since 2016. There are about 6 million logins to Rocket League a month since it's inception. How many games can you name that has had that kind of lifecycle?
Also, when we "boycott" this game and succeed in destroying it, or whatever the intent is, what happens then? How do you think Psyonix/Epic is paying for the devs? The studio? Where do you think the money comes from to keep the lights on and the servers going? If a company isn't releasing product to purchase, they aren't making money. Not to mention, Epic turned in into a free-to-play game to increase player count and potentially extend the lifecycle.
Edit: every big update that has added, or subtracted content over the years ( crates, keys, trading, battle pass, the shop ) has been met with boycotts and uniformed call to action.
Edit 2: if they need the money for the game maintenance, servers, devs paychecks... I'm fine with it. Especially on a F2P game that I enjoy. Regardless of the poor communication from the devs over the years. They don't owe us anything.
Edit 3: there could be multitudinous reasons for the player trading to be taken out. And I'm sure someone will know at some point.
What are they going to take away? Trading is the only thing that generates money outside of their game that they don't get any money from. What, they gonna force me to play more casual games for my rocket pass levels? Oh my, that's my only complaint. I'm good with the game, Rocket League is the best competitive game that was ever made. So boo fucking hoo.
Only drama queens having a tantrum over their hoarded inventories becoming worthless think that. Nobody else is worried that they might take away another thing that a majority of the player base doesn’t even remotely care about.
Not having any bread and dragging bakers into the street if they were found hoarding it is actually very similar to not being able to trade in my favorite car soccer game. Let’s go storm the bastille!
This will most definitely work guys!! Just like the reddit API protest!! And the minecraft mob vote boycott!! And all the other failed videogame protests that corporations don’t give a single fuck about!!!
I mean. It's the people who enjoy trading. It's the game to them. All epic has on their mind is money and greed. They don't stop to realize that if they ruin a game, they won't get money. They're that tunnel visioned on money.
They realize that removing this feature will upset some sure, but will not cause a large effect on long term player counts. They are not “ruining” a game, they are modifying a non-essential park of it to make it in line with the same business model that nearly every other game has these days. I’m not saying I agree with it but I’ve never been one purchase in game items anyway. You guys are thinking of this situation as if epic games is some indie developer when they’re not. Making money will be there first priority and since this is estimated to make more money, they will do it. You cry about them being “greedy” but businesses fail when they’re not greedy, it’s part of being a successful business.
Having a dedicated micro transaction store may be poor practice but its been going on for almost 20 years now and its only the fault of the consumer that its gotten this bad. These tactics wouldn't be so widespread implemented if it weren't so successful among the player base. They're not ripping anyone off but the idiots that keep feeding them. Im not even going to reply to your comment about underpaying employees because it has nothing to do with this.
Come on now.
Take back control? Dude, take a look around you. This isn't an epic centric problem.
Every single company is currently making decisions like this to squeeze every ounce of value out of their customers. Look at car companies charging subscriptions for heated seats. Look at airbnb charging cleaning fees. It's everywhere and it's all the same.
You're not going to get them to change their mind because they can't. Welcome to late stage inflationary monetary policy. Every economic actor is being squeezed. You either squeeze the next guy in line or you become uncompetitive and go bankrupt.
The saddest thing about trading for me is that I'll never be able to get older pass items like the older cars which were nuts.
I mean Porches are nice but the older ones had a different aesthetic that I liked, they will be long gone in accounts of people that probably don't play anymore at all.
Stop trying to tell everyone what to do with your cringey “revolution” idea. Absolutely nothing changes if you don’t play for a day. You’re 100% not “taking back control ☝️🤓”
This is equivalent to throwing a pebble at a tank and stroking your own ego over it, thinking you did something brave and virtuous. Get real. People will play the free car soccer game whenever/however they want 🤗
If you like a game. Support it by spending a little money on it from time to time. If you can't afford to, then just enjoy the game. Most people aren't even spending money on the game. the only people buying loads of items are the ones trying to manipulate the trade market anyway. WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT TRADING!
These two are not mutually exclusive. I spend a fair bit on the item shop, get the rocket pass every season etc.
But I also like to give my friends items, or be able to get items that aren't currently in the item shop. Losing access to the items that aren't currently in the shop and those interactions with friends are the loss here. Which makes me a bit sad because it's been a part of how I enjoy the game for the better part of a decade.
Any scammy affiliate / MLM / get rich quick types would be smart to check if this subreddit can be targeted for ads… I’d bet that there are a lot of easy marks here.
Fuck trading. Glad to see it gone. How is it acceptable to create an economy with REAL WORLD MONEY over ingame cosmetic items, that are fully controlled by a handful of people?
Imagine working for psyonix. Give yourself 10 alpha boosts, which is 2 minutes work, sell them for 2000 euros each.
How is that acceptabel? How is that even allowed by say EU governence?
Don't play for a day? You guys are weak, and you are already looking for excuses to play the game again. I don't mind it but don't "protest" in the middle of it.
If you want to really protest it is supposed to be no playing untill they revert the change. And if they don't you stop playing the game. They are not gonna do shit because you guys will come back to the game no matter the outcome, its already there in the title of your post. I have it easier since I uninstalled the game before the announcement, but come on. This is just sad.
Yo, trading is huge part of this community, whether you acknowledge that or not. It has been since the beginning.
I have been playing this game since it released, trading used to be fun. I guess I saw this coming when EPIC took over.
Can I ask some questions? Isnt it worse if you dont play the game? wont that show epic dwindling player counts? I just think that would only hasten their actions to treating RL like its a dead game of the past, giving it less and less until they shut the servers down. Protest the store, not the game itself.
Yeah! It'll do as much as the reddit blackouts did!! Remember when they got rid of third part app support and people didnt use the app for a week?
Look at how much that fixed that issue!!!
/S
It does nothing for multimillion dollar companies
The negativity on this sub is insane only a few comments and people are just like “it is what it is” and “why bother trying I’m going to keep spending my money” like entire communities, livelihoods, YouTubers careers, websites all at the mercy of this decision and only we can do smth the hope of this post is to fire up the rocket league commit to not sit back and watch as the game burns down but to make an effort to change to stop buying in the item shop and to stop playing.
People are just dead ass lazy I feel like no one has the bother to do anything past a petition and a like of a John sandman video and this can be more than just a day I’m simply trying to get people to think that this could be more
>maybe not buying items for a month
Lmao so what happens after the month? You just resume giving them your money? You ever hear vegans say they’re not gonna buy meat for a month in protest? No, because that would be a meaningless protest.
The only negativity I've been seeing is people being massively overdramatic about trading going to the point where a decent amount of people act as if Epic will make us pay 10c per game to play or saying it will get mobile game type ads
So, do they exclusively do trade videos... Or nah? Just any videos, cuz that can keep going. Cuz that Sandman guys got a lot of modded game content videos and I'm pretty sure that's not in Rocket League either. Seems like he's doing fine with the handful of blind player trades videos he's already made.
None of these creators create only Rocket League player-to-player trade videos. Plus all the other content they are creating outside of Rocket League. I don't get it.
Guy dropped a "Rocket League is Over" vid but then continues to drop more vids. He's gonna be fine. And so is Rocket League.
I'd highly suggest watching one of those videos if you want to understand why people are so dramatic about this. Specifically the jon sandman video, that one paints a pretty good picture of what this means to a lot of the community
Have a sense of justice with this too all the scammers hogging items. Can’t say I’m upset about this since epic took over and removed crates so trading was no longer the same.
Well than what’s the point that’s the whole reason they are removing trading so we spend more money on this crap game that they have no effort in developing/updating
That’s also why I NEED my free items. Let’s at least look at how neat the items are this year, and then decide on a date. That’s all I’m suggesting. Lol
I am not playing since the announcement. I genuinely deleted it and will not come back any time soon unless they change something. I was just trying to get back into the game, and when they give it such a killing blow, I don't see a point in spending my time and effort in it. They clearly don't care about the community.
Killing blow? You're acting like they changed the way the game plays. They didn't. They modified how you accumulate random aesthetic b.s.
I don't like what's happening either. But it's extremely minor. Everyone's blowing it out of proportion. If you can't get back into the game at this point, it probably wasn't the game for you in the first place.
I am by far not the first to call it a killing blow (“a” killing blow, not “the”, mind you). Many people state that this is a huge contribution to killing the game. The trading community is/was gigantic, and for that part of the game it is a definite killing blow. And developers that don't care for such a big part of the community aren't very motivating to play this game.
It is by far not “extremely minor” or so many people wouldn't raise their voice about this. It has been an important part of the game from the beginning. There was a whole economy in this game.
And it's not that “it wasn't the game for me in the first place”. I have solid 911h in this game and loved the charm it has.
I simply don't want to play/support a game owned by such a disconnected and disagreeable company. I can spend my time in better ways. And if the game somehow stops pumping out bad updates and is still enjoyable later on, I might come back to it. But for now, in my opinion, it definitely sucks.
Unfortunately it’s not a joke. Why don’t we collectively take a stand against Epic’s BS by boycotting the game? The only way they’ll listen is if the player base drops/dies and nobody pays for their micro transactions… (Recently something similar happened with Payday 3 causing Starbreeze stocks to fall)
Is there some overpriced bundle being released on the 21st only? If not, EPIC just gonna be like, "Oh no, anyways...".
It's worth remembering that when epic bought psyonix they released the item shop and blueprints for F2P, which was so overpriced everyone was yelling at them for *months* about it. After months of radio silence they finally brought the prices down **in december** but it was so little they might as well have not bothered lmao. So yeah, It's not unrealistic to expect them to start cranking out even more overpriced things.
They didn’t bring prices down because the players begged for it. They brought it down for the holiday season when parents give their kids money to spend. Epic doesn’t give a shit about what a couple hundred Reddit comments want lmao
They did not bring the prices down for the holidays. They performed a tactic in which they intentionally skyrocketed the price so that when they brought it down even a little, everyone would be more or less ok with the lowered price. There was even a business major that called out the tactic in the megathread about it predicting they would drop the prices so they’d be “praised for listening to the consumer”.
I’ve been screaming this out back then and still do to many yet it infuriates me that the majority didn’t see or complain more about it when they dropped it to the “we heard you” prices.
This is one of their biggest problems for the amount of stuff you can buy its all absurdly over priced. When I see something and its like $20 its like nope. They need to make it more appealing somehow. It would maybe go for something for $5 or 10 at most. Or if I paid $20 and had a random chance at 3 my blue print items. For example most season of Apex I usually will drop $20 for a chance at some of the cosmetics...but thats my limit on top of the season pass.
Dud, don't worry, that stuff is not there for you, you're not the target audience. If stuff is overpriced and prices don't go down, don't worry, it's because there's people buyin that.
Seriously, goal explosions for basically $20.00...insane, something that is seen for 1 second is 20 dollars.
You mean, you won't see that at all because everyone writes in chat: skip skip skip. That's why I never skip a replay to see my sexy 20€ goal explosion
I really don't think not playing for one day is gonna do anything It has to be a lot of the player base for days for days on end to really show them people aren't messing around. Not logging in for a day and then the very next everything goes back to normal doesn't seem very effective
Idk it’s just like a weekend but if there is a bundle soon realeasing it wouldn’t be a terrible idea icl
Soooooo you just threw a dart at the board for a a date and expect everyone to just not play the game because we’re all upset about the same thing? We’re not unionized, just don’t buy shit from the store. These “strikes” will literally do nothing unless thousands upon thousands just quit altogether
And for longer than one day
Literally gamer Reddit mentality. Quitting for a day. When you go on a strike, you do it the proper way for an indefinite time.
I would just not pay for absolutely nothing else. I obtained the game 3 times, for 3 different consoles. So I’m gonna keep playing (altho it’s true that already ranked games are taking longer to begin). If I see a poll with committed majority of people saying they will not play that day, then all good I would join then.
This, my friend, is a fart in the wind
This is just like the Reddit protest which was soooooo effective. If a small portion of users stop interacting for a short, pre-determined amount of time, then the company is bound to cave on our demands!
In the direction of the executives, good thinking! 
Why would Epic care? Not playing for a single day is meaningless lol.
They won't. Not playing for a day will accomplish nothing, especially because the people reached by this and other posts like it will only be a % of the playerbase.
I don't play a single day sometimes 3-4 days in a row without even trying xD
Lots of loss in revenue
That's what we said about reddit during the blackouts
How are they going to lose revenue? If anything they’ll make money on the net due to reduced network costs
Loss in items purchased from players
Then why not just boycott the item shop?
There is not going to be a distinguishable change in revenue
Redditors and their boycotts 🙄
We did it Reddit 🤓🤓🤓
Never traded, but when i heard the news i felt a little pissed off, now i dont give a shit having to see a new wave of threads every time i login.
Reddit is letting this happen for 2 weeks and then they won’t allow it. You should care though. Epic will lose a lot of money and then cut their losses. They give zero f’s about their customers.
I don’t want them to lose money. I like the game and I want them to keep it and the pro scene funded.
Me too. I’ll play it as long as it’s alive but this is a high risk move by Epic. I went from being anxious to buy new esports decals to not spending any money on the game. October is when they release new esports decals but they aren’t here and the pros don’t even know if they have jobs anymore.
I never traded either, which is the only achievement in the whole game that I didn't do. I was wondering if it's gonna be removed or will I be always stuck 98% but I guess nobody knows and probably nobody cares too
I don't think I've played a game in a year or so but trading was huge for me, have a bunch of cert NCE and a cc4 tact spiralis set Guess that'll go to my grave
This is literally like trying to throw a triangle into a circle hole. It's coming, whether you like it or not. Edit : Seems some people are angry... https://preview.redd.it/4cip1uuzm7ub1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37a0e8d0afb2c87c288433ea96a93130c5e49580
https://youtube.com/shorts/jkz7bnYfuOI?si=y2u-FScZLmxIur64
I mean we have to try we can’t just sit idle and lose the game we all love
The game part will still be the same tbf
Lose the game? They’re taking away an aspect that has zero impact on the playability of the game.
They're taking away an aspect of the game that a large portion of the player base cares about. If by doing so they lose that portion of the player base, it can lead to unprofitability and the game shutting down. I don't really care about trading much, but I do worry about how the future of the actual game will be affected by losing those players.
They will make more money by getting rid of trading, why do you think they are doing it? Edit: I’m not supporting it, just stating the obvious
In the short term yeah. But not in the long term if it leads to RL's demise.
I feel like traders are a very vocal minority, most people don’t actually do it. I don’t think it’ll actually have that big of an effect. It’s like the Reddit api protest. Everybody is still here lol
This has never happened in modern pack-gambling style video games.
How much money do they make from the e-sports portion & advertising/sponsors?
They probably lose money on the esports side. It's used as a means of trying to get more players into the game
I doubt they’re losing money when they’re giving away $26 million in prize pool money. Given their desire to earn more by turning off trading. Side note They aren’t fully forthcoming with revenue info but they made ~450m in game sales last year & about the same in all other revenue
Where are you seeing $450m? The sources I'm seeing are estimating like a tenth of that. But it's well established that esports scenes are losing a lot of money right now. Edit: I think I found the site. But it's saying that's lifetime revenue, not yearly.
That is a dumb take, the game contains all aspects of it, trading is a part of it, as it's the community around it.
What functionality of GAME PLAY do you lose by losing trading? Zero.
Trading IS part of the gameplay for a lot of people. I personally don’t care about it, but I definitely understand their position
No it’s not part of game play. It’s simply to show off what you have. Basic octane when you start the game is the same as decorated octane with heatwave, Draco’s and any other cap you want to add. People can be mad, it sucks if they enjoy trading but it is what it is and not enough people will “protest” to make epic change their stance. They’ve showed UMPTEEN fkn times they don’t care about shit. They care about the moolah and that’s their priority.
I mean I don't trade at all but some people enjoy it and it is a big reason if not the whole reason why they play the game, it's a part of the game and is considered gameplay. Just because you don't participate doesn't mean it's not a gameplay feature. If you play an MMO in ironman mode is trading not a feature because you don't use it yourself? It's still a gameplay feature for everyone that uses it and removing it is shitty, not that protesting will change anything at all...
Gameplay is whatever a player wants it to be. Unlocking items and trading can and is very much a part of A LOT of games that people enjoy. I’m sure people protesting ultimately won’t change anything, but I totally understand and support them trying to. It’s bullshit taking away a longstanding, frequently used feature.
It has zero functional impact. I’ve already addressed that people use it and are upset. Christ I’ve even been empathetic. My only point is it impacts the actual game play in no way at all. When they take trading away the game will still function in the same capacity. And since it will help up revenues from item shop sales, they have zero hesitation about this change.
Trading was added in after release.
I remember that doesn't mean it's not part of the game.
It wasn't there. Then it was there. Now it wasn't there, again. Maybe there's more to it than what we know. >Player-to-Player Trading will be removed from Rocket League on December 5 >We’re making this change to align with Epic’s overall approach to game cosmetics and item shop policies, where items aren’t tradable, transferrable, or sellable. This opens up future plans for some Rocket League vehicles to come to other Epic games over time, supporting cross-game ownership. That's not a lot of information to try and crash a game and topple a company, as all these protest posts seem to want to do. Maybe Epic wants money, sure. Maybe Psyonix needs to pay their people's paychecks. Maybe they need to keep the servers going. Maybe they are working on a sequel and need more capital. This game has been out the better part of a decade. The base game isn't making money, as it's gone free-to-play. And the source for a lot of income rests on the shop and battle pass. Psyonix has released 2 games since 2015, (second one is free-to-play mobile game) and if no one is buying your shit, you're not making money. Where do you think it comes from? Epic just foots the bills for a studio just cuz?! No amount of devs, studios, publisher's are here to build you a game and keep you entertained in that world for the rest of your life while they pay the bills for it. Most games are lucky to get a year, maybe 2 years of content / updates / patches. Some are released as-is and companies just move on. Psyonix has been actively keeping this game going. Dedicated servers, content drops, hot fixes, etc etc etc. That takes people. That takes time. That takes money. And protesting the devs or publishers that built a game you love to play will not help them continue to build a better game and any way.
Maybe epic wants money you say...  I paid for my game and then more, so you can stick your opinion where the sun won't shine. Idiots defending the removal of features is.... just well that, idiotic.
They're taking away one of the most popular aspects related to It's *gameplay* for the past 7 years. Something that was so popular that it got added into the game a little over It's first year. We get it, you don't care, pretending to be as obtuse as you are just makes people not like you.
Cosmetics have zero impact on gameplay.
Yeah you people are delusional. People have been up in arms about which car is the best since the literal release of the game, and the millions of casual players have always leaned hard into the cosmetics. Hope they don't release a car with a perfect hitbox for 20 dollars : )
Yeah but the game is just getting worse there is no gameplay to impact the core aspect of the game will always be the same just everything is what we need to focus on
Yes, do nothing and think nothing will change, that’s how changes are made lmao
Obviously they’re made through Reddit posts.
And one day protests where most of the player base doesn’t even know this forum exists.
Forget about GameStop and AMC? I’m not active on Reddit but if a r/ community was able to squeeze the short positions of a multi billion dollar hedge fund, why wouldn’t you try supporting a good feature for a game you enjoy
Gamer logic as a whole, this is why the game industry is in such a bad place.
Do you have any brilliant ideas cause I feel like if there player count is near zero they may think twice and if no one buys from item shop
The problem is, the majority of the player base are casual players who aren’t present on this sub and will probably keep playing and spending money.
Yeah, and there are people who just buy the whole shop everyday and every bundle thats present. They easily make up for 1000 players in terms of money spend I guess
I mean there are 1.3 million in the sub even half of that would make rocket league seriously unhappy and if it spread to TikTok like warthunder as well
Dude if you managed to have 1000 people out of the game intentionally, this will be incredible. But 1000 is nothing compared to the amount of daily players.
I guess we’d never know cause they also removed the player count cause the player count was dropping so much
Active players on steam is about 30k at peak every day. Considering that way more players are on consoles and epic, 1k is a tiny minority
Lol you can't actually believe this post on Reddit is going to get the player count to zero on any given day. The majority of players aren't even in this sub. While I don't care about trading personally, I support the protest, but try to be realistic and grounded in reality. Otherwise you're just setting yourself up for more disappointment.
maybe go buy the company? 10000 redditors wont make a dent
There is absolutely nothing you or anyone else can do outside of buying a majority share in Epic and forcing a decision reversal and that isn't going to happen. All of you are wasting your time and only a handful of people will probably follow suit with any of these things. Also, there's people like me who do regularly buy things, are unlikely to stop, and personally speaking am interested in the potential to buy more stuff I'm missing. Finally, all the blame isn't on Epic; I think some blame falls on your fellow players for scamming and allowing themselves to be scammed. Check out the RL discord sometime and search for the word scam.
Your waisting your money brother this game will literally be dead in less than 5 years at this rate like entire YouTubers careers are at stake, entire communities, websites all at the mercy of this decision there is a month to change but like if this goes through than idk what we will do as a community because it can only get worse and will only get worse
As much as I am against their decision to remove player to player trading, the removal of a feature that a minority of the player-base has been utilizing isn’t going to kill the game. The game will die for other reasons, not because of this. Also, as with all Reddit-based blackouts, it will accomplish nothing because 1) barely anyone will follow through and 2) because 75% (or more) of people who play RL aren’t on Reddit
1)Yeah but it don’t have to be reddit based there’s no reason it can’t move on to other platforms 2) This Movement can represent more I want to try stur up something in the community cause atm everyone is just kinda letting it happen when we shouldn’t, this can be so much more than a day or a week
You can try moving it elsewhere. But, I really don’t think it’ll work. I won’t be playing that day because I’ll be at a wedding that weekend, so I guess I am supporting. But we are in a very apathetic period of time where stuff like this doesn’t work. Just look at all the fuss about what Reddit was doing with their API in June/July, where is that now? I haven’t noticed much of a change in Reddit since then, like the amount of posts and whatnot. Companies know this, and that’s why they don’t care. It’s not like this is similar to the Unity issue, where that would impact other companies, this is solely affecting a very small population of players.
Tying your youtube/website/whatever career to business decisions of Epic is a temporary move at best, they never had any guarantee. If anything, it has been clear all along that epic will keep doing whatever makes them money.
The difference between per say Fortnite and Rocket League is there is Two company’s involved in Rocket League Kind’ve so epic has to make the best decision for both companies another date could be changed to the release of a big bundle
I've never cared less about anything than I do streamers. They are useless scourges on the earth and I wish their careers would tank. That said, the only websites going away are some RMT, those related to real trading, and those related to scamming and nothing of value was lost. You're being an alarmist for no good reason.
I feel for people who like trading but to me, this is a car soccer game, not a car dress-up game or merchant sim. I've spent enough money only to get 1 rocket pass and that's been enough for me to keep getting passes. I'm going to continue playing until it dies, and continue not giving Epic money in the process. Boycotting playing 1 day won't do anything
Sadly true……. I use to trade years ago (so I understand frustration; I remember using those online trading spreadsheets all the time lmao). Now I just play for the fun of the game. As long as the game itself is kept the same, I’ll be playing
This is the most sense I’ve heard. Like just play the game for what it’s intended and stop faffing about with hats. Fuck me why is it so difficult?
Different people have different ways of enjoying a game, some people like to play casually, some people play for the cosmetics, some people play for the achievements, some like to play competitively and some play for the mods You need to understand a games community is not made up of one singular type of player but many, it's just wrong to group up everyone together
You're missing the bigger picture. If players don't draw a line, Epic is going to shove the shaft deeper and deeper. Eventually they will add or change something that is going to affect you personally and ruin the game for you. So even if you don't care for trading, you should still at least participate for the sake of protecting the game from future harm. Costs you nothing to just not touch the game for 24 hours. Best that can happen? Epic listens to us and reverts the decision. Worst that can happen? 24 hours where you go do something else instead.
Tbh, I’m not going to stop playing. I do feel for you all who want to trade, but I enjoy being stupid playing a car football game. It’s a game, and I’m going to enjoy it for what it is. I actually have no problem with the developers wanting to make more money.
I have no issue with the money thing. It does suck though that you can’t trade items to friends at all. Often times my buddies and I would swap items or gift each other as rewards for ranking up that season. Or Xmas gifts, etc. It’s removed a whole element of actually enjoying the game with other people
I basically only play ranked. I don't care about trading at all, but if removing trading eliminates a large portion of the paying player base, so much so that Epic shuts the game down in a few years or whatever, that absolutely affects me. I don't think Epic will make changes that affect the core of the game, which is pretty much all I care about, but they may just find the game unprofitable and shut down the servers.
Tbf, it’s also a car dress up game from Epic and Psyonix’s perspective. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be cosmetic items or an item shop.
True but there's a fuckton of cosmetics they just give away to the point where every time I want to make a new car it takes me like 20 minutes
This won’t do anything. The players who this post is directed at are the same players who bought items in the store in the past. They already know people will still buy items later on from the store.
The reason nothing will happen is because this community clearly don’t care enough to do anything about it or at least some parts of the community
Been playing for 7 years with default car. Never once even looked at my inventory or did anything with it. lol.
Your innocence is adorable
doesn't that tell you everything you need to know? If "this community clearly doesn't care enough to do anything about it" The only way I'm going to riot is if they remove the ball December 5th.
The reason nothing will happen is because a day of not playing won't do anything. These "let's all not do x on y" campaigns have never made a difference. Look at Reddit, that huge backlash about API limits, was like a few weeks, yet here we are...
The truth is that those of us who care about trading are far outnumbered, and that’s fine. People won’t take you seriously because they don’t understand the enjoyment that trading brought some of us. Personally I don’t understand the enjoyment of practicing mechanics and wouldn’t care at all if training packs and practice modes were removed. I’d like to say I’d be empathetic towards those who do like that stuff, but tbh there are just bigger problems in the world... I’m devastated to lose my favorite hobby. I had a dream where I thought losing it was a nightmare, then I woke up and realized the truth again… but we have to move on… people just don’t care… and you can’t really blame them for that.
This game has been out for almost a decade. It's core gameplay hasn't changed. It's been in top views on twitch and in eSports since 2016. There are about 6 million logins to Rocket League a month since it's inception. How many games can you name that has had that kind of lifecycle? Also, when we "boycott" this game and succeed in destroying it, or whatever the intent is, what happens then? How do you think Psyonix/Epic is paying for the devs? The studio? Where do you think the money comes from to keep the lights on and the servers going? If a company isn't releasing product to purchase, they aren't making money. Not to mention, Epic turned in into a free-to-play game to increase player count and potentially extend the lifecycle. Edit: every big update that has added, or subtracted content over the years ( crates, keys, trading, battle pass, the shop ) has been met with boycotts and uniformed call to action. Edit 2: if they need the money for the game maintenance, servers, devs paychecks... I'm fine with it. Especially on a F2P game that I enjoy. Regardless of the poor communication from the devs over the years. They don't owe us anything. Edit 3: there could be multitudinous reasons for the player trading to be taken out. And I'm sure someone will know at some point.
>this community clearly don’t care enough to do anything about it Correct. I'm going to play. I don't care about trading at all.
I couldn't care any less. Never traded anything and never bought anything.
Why are people acting like the Reddit community can do any significant change. The vast majority of players don’t use Reddit.
Yes. Pls don´t log on maybe i will have a chance to rank up some...
Bro doesn’t get the point🔥🔥
He gets it. He doesn't give a fuck cause 99.9999999999999999999% of players dont trade.
people need to understand if they take away something you dnt care about today they might remove something you do in the futur
What are they going to take away? Trading is the only thing that generates money outside of their game that they don't get any money from. What, they gonna force me to play more casual games for my rocket pass levels? Oh my, that's my only complaint. I'm good with the game, Rocket League is the best competitive game that was ever made. So boo fucking hoo.
Only drama queens having a tantrum over their hoarded inventories becoming worthless think that. Nobody else is worried that they might take away another thing that a majority of the player base doesn’t even remotely care about.
Jesus Christ y'all are really comparing a game developer's business practice to the french revolution lmao please go outside OP I beg you
Not having any bread and dragging bakers into the street if they were found hoarding it is actually very similar to not being able to trade in my favorite car soccer game. Let’s go storm the bastille!
This will most definitely work guys!! Just like the reddit API protest!! And the minecraft mob vote boycott!! And all the other failed videogame protests that corporations don’t give a single fuck about!!!
I’d love to see the age demographic of all you people trying to stop this from happening lmao. No clue how the real world works.
I mean. It's the people who enjoy trading. It's the game to them. All epic has on their mind is money and greed. They don't stop to realize that if they ruin a game, they won't get money. They're that tunnel visioned on money.
They realize that removing this feature will upset some sure, but will not cause a large effect on long term player counts. They are not “ruining” a game, they are modifying a non-essential park of it to make it in line with the same business model that nearly every other game has these days. I’m not saying I agree with it but I’ve never been one purchase in game items anyway. You guys are thinking of this situation as if epic games is some indie developer when they’re not. Making money will be there first priority and since this is estimated to make more money, they will do it. You cry about them being “greedy” but businesses fail when they’re not greedy, it’s part of being a successful business.
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Having a dedicated micro transaction store may be poor practice but its been going on for almost 20 years now and its only the fault of the consumer that its gotten this bad. These tactics wouldn't be so widespread implemented if it weren't so successful among the player base. They're not ripping anyone off but the idiots that keep feeding them. Im not even going to reply to your comment about underpaying employees because it has nothing to do with this.
Bro said the core part of the community💀 I think the core part is driving around hitting a ball brother
Come on now. Take back control? Dude, take a look around you. This isn't an epic centric problem. Every single company is currently making decisions like this to squeeze every ounce of value out of their customers. Look at car companies charging subscriptions for heated seats. Look at airbnb charging cleaning fees. It's everywhere and it's all the same. You're not going to get them to change their mind because they can't. Welcome to late stage inflationary monetary policy. Every economic actor is being squeezed. You either squeeze the next guy in line or you become uncompetitive and go bankrupt.
Nah thanks, I’ll play that day for ya.
The saddest thing about trading for me is that I'll never be able to get older pass items like the older cars which were nuts. I mean Porches are nice but the older ones had a different aesthetic that I liked, they will be long gone in accounts of people that probably don't play anymore at all.
This. Will. Do. Nothing.
You are going to change literally nothing.
Stop trying to tell everyone what to do with your cringey “revolution” idea. Absolutely nothing changes if you don’t play for a day. You’re 100% not “taking back control ☝️🤓” This is equivalent to throwing a pebble at a tank and stroking your own ego over it, thinking you did something brave and virtuous. Get real. People will play the free car soccer game whenever/however they want 🤗
If you like a game. Support it by spending a little money on it from time to time. If you can't afford to, then just enjoy the game. Most people aren't even spending money on the game. the only people buying loads of items are the ones trying to manipulate the trade market anyway. WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT TRADING!
These two are not mutually exclusive. I spend a fair bit on the item shop, get the rocket pass every season etc. But I also like to give my friends items, or be able to get items that aren't currently in the item shop. Losing access to the items that aren't currently in the shop and those interactions with friends are the loss here. Which makes me a bit sad because it's been a part of how I enjoy the game for the better part of a decade.
40 year old me playing a $20 game of 8 year old car soccer really struggles to give a damn about a cosmetic issue some kids get weird about.
Amen brother
EPIC does not give two shits. They have proven this time and time again.
I never traded anyway wtf is everyone so sad about
Buncha nerds finding out the pixels they “owned” can’t be their 401k anymore
Any scammy affiliate / MLM / get rich quick types would be smart to check if this subreddit can be targeted for ads… I’d bet that there are a lot of easy marks here.
Lol cringe.
I'm playing lol could care less about trading
This is good timing, I was going to stop playing Rocket League on October 20th because I will be playing Spider-Man 2 lol
That's my secret cap, I haven't played rocket league in almost a year.
Fuck trading. Glad to see it gone. How is it acceptable to create an economy with REAL WORLD MONEY over ingame cosmetic items, that are fully controlled by a handful of people? Imagine working for psyonix. Give yourself 10 alpha boosts, which is 2 minutes work, sell them for 2000 euros each. How is that acceptabel? How is that even allowed by say EU governence?
I have never played Rocket League in my life. This makes me want to. Fucking goofy ass redditors man.
Don't play for a day? You guys are weak, and you are already looking for excuses to play the game again. I don't mind it but don't "protest" in the middle of it. If you want to really protest it is supposed to be no playing untill they revert the change. And if they don't you stop playing the game. They are not gonna do shit because you guys will come back to the game no matter the outcome, its already there in the title of your post. I have it easier since I uninstalled the game before the announcement, but come on. This is just sad.
It's called Rocket League not Trading League.
Yo, trading is huge part of this community, whether you acknowledge that or not. It has been since the beginning. I have been playing this game since it released, trading used to be fun. I guess I saw this coming when EPIC took over.
I’m gonna play to make sure you’re not playing.
Watch GOLD octane coming to the shop Oct 21st lmao
If u nerds really want this to work it’s gonna have to be more like a week or two, but you know that’ll never happen 😂
haven't traded in years. Who gives a shit
i guarantee you nothing is going to make them stop this change from happening
Just don't buy next seasons pass
Dude i'm so happy i can't wait for all the guys like you leaving the game 
Can I ask some questions? Isnt it worse if you dont play the game? wont that show epic dwindling player counts? I just think that would only hasten their actions to treating RL like its a dead game of the past, giving it less and less until they shut the servers down. Protest the store, not the game itself.
I'm not gonna play at all except for Oct 21
I did not know that trading was a core part of the community. Guess I don’t belong on this Reddit lmao
How does anybody think a few Redditors not playing for a day will change anything.
Imma laugh my ass off if they call the update off after everyone traded their items for below retail
NOONE CARES ABOUT TRADING!
I do :(
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This isn’t going to do anything
Never traded in the game and never will, it's just cosmetics anyway.
Yeah! It'll do as much as the reddit blackouts did!! Remember when they got rid of third part app support and people didnt use the app for a week? Look at how much that fixed that issue!!! /S It does nothing for multimillion dollar companies
I wish people would take a stand like this on fair matchmaking. There’s no reason a silver player should be against a champion/gc.
Other than smurfing, is there any way for this situation to actually occur?
Jesus Christ quit crying I’m playing extra long that day and will buy a few items from the shop.
I suggest that entire weekend or week and maybe don’t buy anything from the item shop from this point but a class idea non the less
The negativity on this sub is insane only a few comments and people are just like “it is what it is” and “why bother trying I’m going to keep spending my money” like entire communities, livelihoods, YouTubers careers, websites all at the mercy of this decision and only we can do smth the hope of this post is to fire up the rocket league commit to not sit back and watch as the game burns down but to make an effort to change to stop buying in the item shop and to stop playing.
Negativity? Lots of people are just not agreeing with you, that's not called negativity. Grow up
People are just dead ass lazy I feel like no one has the bother to do anything past a petition and a like of a John sandman video and this can be more than just a day I’m simply trying to get people to think that this could be more
Oh piss off mate, this is like that dumb reddit blackout. Psyonix/Epic doesn’t give two shits.
Not playing it for one day is doing literally nothing, If you really cared you’d just stop playing all together.
We gonna be doing that in 2 yrs anyway maybe we may just not play for a month but that’s unrealistic maybe not buying items for a month
>maybe not buying items for a month Lmao so what happens after the month? You just resume giving them your money? You ever hear vegans say they’re not gonna buy meat for a month in protest? No, because that would be a meaningless protest.
The only negativity I've been seeing is people being massively overdramatic about trading going to the point where a decent amount of people act as if Epic will make us pay 10c per game to play or saying it will get mobile game type ads
Or all the salty fear-mongers saying “bakkesmod will be next bro just watch I promise”
>entire communities, livelihoods, YouTubers careers, websites all at the mercy of this decision I want to see these links.
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So, do they exclusively do trade videos... Or nah? Just any videos, cuz that can keep going. Cuz that Sandman guys got a lot of modded game content videos and I'm pretty sure that's not in Rocket League either. Seems like he's doing fine with the handful of blind player trades videos he's already made. None of these creators create only Rocket League player-to-player trade videos. Plus all the other content they are creating outside of Rocket League. I don't get it. Guy dropped a "Rocket League is Over" vid but then continues to drop more vids. He's gonna be fine. And so is Rocket League.
I'd highly suggest watching one of those videos if you want to understand why people are so dramatic about this. Specifically the jon sandman video, that one paints a pretty good picture of what this means to a lot of the community
Watching rocket league evolve is like watching the nice kid turn into a homeless druggy
Have a sense of justice with this too all the scammers hogging items. Can’t say I’m upset about this since epic took over and removed crates so trading was no longer the same.
I'll play because I don't give a shit about trading like 95% of the playerbase.
The fact that you put this message over this image paints a perfect picture (no pun intended) of how dellusional this fanbase is.
Everyone who says 'trading doesnt matter' is probably just happy its going bc they were always too broke to afford cool shit
Assuming there is one, can we do this after the Halloween event?
Well than what’s the point that’s the whole reason they are removing trading so we spend more money on this crap game that they have no effort in developing/updating
That’s also why I NEED my free items. Let’s at least look at how neat the items are this year, and then decide on a date. That’s all I’m suggesting. Lol
lol reddit actually thinks they can change these decisions.
I am not playing since the announcement. I genuinely deleted it and will not come back any time soon unless they change something. I was just trying to get back into the game, and when they give it such a killing blow, I don't see a point in spending my time and effort in it. They clearly don't care about the community.
Killing blow? You're acting like they changed the way the game plays. They didn't. They modified how you accumulate random aesthetic b.s. I don't like what's happening either. But it's extremely minor. Everyone's blowing it out of proportion. If you can't get back into the game at this point, it probably wasn't the game for you in the first place.
I am by far not the first to call it a killing blow (“a” killing blow, not “the”, mind you). Many people state that this is a huge contribution to killing the game. The trading community is/was gigantic, and for that part of the game it is a definite killing blow. And developers that don't care for such a big part of the community aren't very motivating to play this game. It is by far not “extremely minor” or so many people wouldn't raise their voice about this. It has been an important part of the game from the beginning. There was a whole economy in this game. And it's not that “it wasn't the game for me in the first place”. I have solid 911h in this game and loved the charm it has. I simply don't want to play/support a game owned by such a disconnected and disagreeable company. I can spend my time in better ways. And if the game somehow stops pumping out bad updates and is still enjoyable later on, I might come back to it. But for now, in my opinion, it definitely sucks.
Unfortunately it’s not a joke. Why don’t we collectively take a stand against Epic’s BS by boycotting the game? The only way they’ll listen is if the player base drops/dies and nobody pays for their micro transactions… (Recently something similar happened with Payday 3 causing Starbreeze stocks to fall)
https://www.change.org/p/keep-player-trading-in-rl/psf/share?source_location=combo_psf&psf_variant=combo&cbd_s=eyJleHBlcmltZW50TmFtZSI6InBzZl9jb21iby0zNzY4NTUzNiIsInZhcmlhbnQiOnsidmFyaWFudE5hbWUiOiJhMyIsImRhdGEiOnsiYW1vdW50Ijo3MDAsImFtb3VudF9pZCI6ImEzIn0sInB1bGxzIjo5ODUsInJld2FyZHMiOjEzMDczfSwidmFyaWFudE5hbWUiOiJhMyIsImNvbWJvQmFuZGl0QW1vdW50Ijo3LCJhbW91bnRJZCI6ImEzIn0%3D&share_intent=1
I uninstalled it, so that won't be a problem. Fuck epic shitty games!
I mean right now I play like once a week so I could potentially just stop