Why in gods name would a game remove trading after it'd been around for a while?
I don't play rocket league, so I don't know how good psyonix is with the community, but from the article it makes it sound like this was entirely epic's decision. Sure, every game is going to wax and wane in popularity, so he would have had to find another source of income eventually; but he wasn't afforded the luxury of having time to pivot when the site's revenue started dropping too low because the rug got pulled out from under him. He was given the impression by psyonix that they liked his site by giving him an in-game flag and (it sounds like) special API access, and now they're suddenly cutting ties to him.
Epic bought Psyonix a few years ago and immediately started making changes like making the game an Epic store exclusive and limiting steam connectivity. Game status and time left used to be able to be seen on the steam friends list and now it only shows Rocket Leagie being played.
This limit to trading is because Epic made several shitty anticonsumer moves like hiding how many people are searching in a queue and drove off the player base. By limiting trading a player is forced to buy any cosmetic instead of trading unused copies or blueprints they don't want to other players. It's just another branch hitting the remaining player base as the game is in freefall.
Psyonix has always been shitty on their own. And they sold out to Epic; they didn't have to do that. Epic is a known quantity of terrible, but Psyonix is not innocent in any of this.
Psyonix started off very good, but slowly got more and more shitty. The biggest turning point was the Epic games sale. After that the game only got more and more shit. In the past few years it just seemed like a big money printing machine. No soul, no new ideas, just more shit for the players to buy. As a Rocket League player with >2000 hours, I'm sad what one of my favorite games has become.
All of that stuff is cosmetic and you don't need it. I bought this game when it first released, haven't spent a dime on it since and I still have fun playing it.
Well, have to say the NFL mode and melee smash mode were pretty good new modes. But other than that, yeah I agree there weren't any new addition, updates, even rocket pass went pretty meh.
Why in gods name would a game remove trading after it'd been around for a while?
I don't play rocket league, so I don't know how good psyonix is with the community, but from the article it makes it sound like this was entirely epic's decision. Sure, every game is going to wax and wane in popularity, so he would have had to find another source of income eventually; but he wasn't afforded the luxury of having time to pivot when the site's revenue started dropping too low because the rug got pulled out from under him. He was given the impression by psyonix that they liked his site by giving him an in-game flag and (it sounds like) special API access, and now they're suddenly cutting ties to him.
Epic bought Psyonix a few years ago and immediately started making changes like making the game an Epic store exclusive and limiting steam connectivity. Game status and time left used to be able to be seen on the steam friends list and now it only shows Rocket Leagie being played.
This limit to trading is because Epic made several shitty anticonsumer moves like hiding how many people are searching in a queue and drove off the player base. By limiting trading a player is forced to buy any cosmetic instead of trading unused copies or blueprints they don't want to other players. It's just another branch hitting the remaining player base as the game is in freefall.
Psyonix has always been shitty on their own. And they sold out to Epic; they didn't have to do that. Epic is a known quantity of terrible, but Psyonix is not innocent in any of this.
Psyonix started off very good, but slowly got more and more shitty. The biggest turning point was the Epic games sale. After that the game only got more and more shit. In the past few years it just seemed like a big money printing machine. No soul, no new ideas, just more shit for the players to buy. As a Rocket League player with >2000 hours, I'm sad what one of my favorite games has become.
All of that stuff is cosmetic and you don't need it. I bought this game when it first released, haven't spent a dime on it since and I still have fun playing it.
Well, have to say the NFL mode and melee smash mode were pretty good new modes. But other than that, yeah I agree there weren't any new addition, updates, even rocket pass went pretty meh.
Jagex removed trading from RuneScape back in the day, for less greedy purposes than Epic is doing here, and it effectively killed their game.