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

[vivster]

Kerotan said:

vivster said:

I wouldn't call it massive or hardcore. I barely see anyone from PS4 at my rank.

RL was hyped well before it was even known to be free. The first month just made it a bit easier. RL is popular not because it's popular but because of its addicting core gameplay. Word of mouth would've spread either way. That's why it is still selling well today. if it was just the hype from the few people who got it for free it would've dropped off long ago.

Word of mouth would never have spread to the level it did.  It's basically the same game they released last gen with a new name. Didn't work then and wouldn't have worked now.  

 

I barely see any pc players either.  Doesn't mean there isn't any. Ever think the ps4 players at the top have set it so they don't play pc players? I'm not sure the reason why I see a ton more ps4 players though,  probably just the matchmaking. 

Well it's easy when you look at public rankings and see barely any non PC players.

The game started on PC with its alpha and gained a lot of word of mouth long before release. The comparison to the prequel is just bad. Back then they had zero marketing and people only stumbled accidentally over it. This time around they put massive amounts of money into marketing, also with the help of Sony of course. Even without the free  month they've put a lot of effort into marketing and got a lot of positive press.

Just because you just heard of it because it was free doesn't mean everyone else did. It maybe wouldn't have been as big on PS4 as it is now but that's just a small portion of the current active playerbase.