"And it got a 67 on Metacritic." This makes it, at least by Metacritic's own ranking system, the 92nd best game to launch on the PlayStation 3 that year. "It's basically the same game as Rocket League," said Davis. This game, although not as technically capable as Rocket League, comes from that exact same DNA and yet received neither critical acclaim nor came close to the same level of financial success. The standard setup is a familiar one, with two teams of three players bashing, flipping and ramming their cars into either an oversized football, or into each other.
We're talking about Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, the "worst-named game of all time", said Davis, with some amount of regret. How could it not be? But that's the interesting thing about this story: Psyonix had actually released a very similar game back in 2008, and by comparison, almost nobody noticed.
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You only had to see it in action - three friends shouting and laughing together at a TV screen - to get what all the fuss was about. Out of nowhere, Rocket League was suddenly demanding lunch breaks and converting even the most adamant non-football fans. I can't really imagine what we would have done if we'd shipped only on PlayStation 4 and got that many users."įor most of us, this excellent game of cars and football arrived as a complete surprise. "Steam covered everything and they pay very quickly, which was important. "I didn't know if we were going to cover server costs," remembered design director, Corey Davis at a recent GDC talk.
It turns out running a successful online multiplayer game is an expensive process.
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Or perhaps you purchased a PC copy instead, in which case, you actually kept the whole thing afloat, whether you realised it or not. If you owned a PlayStation 4 and enjoyed having a nice time, you were likely one of six million players who downloaded the game within its first month on PlayStation Plus. Rocket League launched in the summer of 2015 and seemed to be everywhere at once.
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