Yeah, so this day came. The FTP Rocket League release will be playable online without PS+ or a Switch Online subscription. For some reason, MS will still require people to pay for XBLG to have access to the title.

I wonder if there will be any uproar regarding the lack of fairness that MS shows, considering how they are lately the champions of the consumers. Maybe a couple of words from good old Phill, about how they put gamers first with their new approach to gaming?

Thoughts?

https://www.engadget.com/rocket-league-wont-need-ps-plus-or-switch-online-subscriptions-to-play-183638239.html

EDIT: As I have not made it clear enough in the title (hence the confusion) this is a continuation of F2P practices on all 3 manufacturers' side. Just wanted to point this one out!

Shows you the leverage that Rocket League has. Kind of impressive.

Praise Epic!

Hasn't this always been the case for free to play games? On most things they are indeed free, on Xbox they aren't.

Yeah, like Fortnite ou Warframe (unlike other platforms)

This isnt just for rocket league right?
Sony and Nintendo keep free to play games, free to play online.

pay to play free to play games... they can probably make a catchy jingle out of that...

Yeah, but this is a pretty new experiment, as the game is going from a P2P to a F2P model, and it just contrasts the huge discrepancy between the 3 manufacturers approach. Now, I know we have seen this before, but Rocket League is in its league of its own (no pun intended).

As a pretty big name in gaming, so one could hope that there will be at least a PR spin for this. Considering how much noize some anti-consumer tendencies are making as of late (Epic vs. Apple vs. ABC) maybe it is time for a developer to properly speak up against this?

Yeah weird that Xbox doesnt have the same treatment for free2play games.

Not surprised. They are pretty much the EA of console makers, so...