Rocket League with 5 Million downloads since launch!

[Samus Aran]

Teeqoz said:

Samus Aran said:

Teeqoz said:

 

Given how big Candy Crush is, being a clone of that will give you a boost, when you are using such a big IP as Pokemon to kickstart it.

Now, do you think this game achieved this success just because it was free?

It would have sold around 800K-1M by now if it wasn't free. That's good, but not nearly as amazing as some of you guys are claiming this to be.

You didn't answer my question. Do you think this success comes just from being free, or do you think it has something to do with the quality of the game?

It's a completely new game that released on PS+ (that doesn't happen often, I hear people complain about the PS+ game selection all the time), it's an addicting online multiplayer game (so you already need a PS+ subscription to play the game anyway) and it had a good word of mouth (you don't need much to convince people when you say it's free).

Using the 5 million downloads as an argument as to why it's a great game is silly. Plenty of great games out there that bombed anyway. But hey, if you want to use "sales" as an indication of quality be my guest...