Rocket League reaches 10.5m sold and 29m Unique Players - Years of Support planned

[vivster]

Kerotan said:

vivster said:

I'm actually quite sure that it would've reached that amount of popularity without the free month. It just kickstarted it a bit faster.

All it needs now is an evergrowing esports scene with much higher price pools to gain even more popularity. $300,000 prize pool for RLCS 3 is nice and all but to get some attention they should bump it up to 7 figures.

It definitely wouldn't have.  The game looked shit by just watching videos.  But when you tried it out it was so fun. Everybody I know who bought it after the free month did so because people were telling them how amazing it was.  People who would never have bought it otherwise. 

Yes, that is true for the first few months of the game. But RL is still making sales charts today almost 2 years after launch and that's certainly not thanks to a few free weeks. Also considering that the core fan base is on PC.