Rocket League Hits 10.5 Million Sales, 29 Million Players; No Sequel Coming

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Psyonix has announced that Rocket League has hit a new sales milestone, surpassing 10.5 million copies sold. Additionally, the total number of players has now reached 29 million (this number includes split-screen players and players who got a free copy of the game via PlayStation Plus).

The news comes via Pysonix VP Jeremy Dunham who told Colin Moriarty of Kinda Funny Games (relayed by GameSpot) that around a fourth of the 29 million registered players (roughly 7 million) played Rocket League sometime in February, which shows the game still possesses a thriving community more than year and a half after launch. According to Dunham, the game’s playerbase continues to grow, which is a big reason why Psyonix isn’t planning on making a sequel anytime soon, despite there potentially being a strong financial incentive to do so.

Dunham tells Kinda Funny Games the following:

“Why would we want to take this huge community that we’ve already built, that’s still growing, and say, ‘What you’re playing now is going to be irrelevant in 12 months, but we want you to stop what you’re doing, giving us money all over again, and move over to this other game,'” Dunham explained. “That’s not the right way to do things. I think that era of games has passed.”

“Our goal was to keep making Rocket League better and better so that we don’t lose any of the people that want to play. If they’re playing our game, we’re not going to penalize them and make them buy our game again just because we want to add a couple new features. We want to let them know we’re in it for the long haul, if they’re in it for the long haul.”

To put it into perspective of how far out of mind a sequel is for Psyonix, Dunham revealed that the team is thinking up new features for the game that are or two years away from release.

Dunham also revealed that Psyonix is regularly approached by publishers about forming partnerships, however, with an influx of resources from Rocket League, the developer doesn’t feel that its needs to partner with outside companies as much as it used to.

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Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2017/03/10/rocket-league-hits-10-5-million-sales-29-million-players-no-sequel-coming-anytime-soon/

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XboxPosted:

Good to see rocket league smashing the numbers, it's a great game so I'm not really surprised by this.

NickPosted:

How would you even give us a sequel? There's no storyline.

SilkyPosted:

No sequel?
What about a prequel ey.

GiftyPosted:

A sequel to rocket league would be brilliant, I mean sequels can be better at times

IlcamorristaPosted:

Pretty impressive achievement. I only played this game a few times It's pretty fun but I never really got into it.

SkatesPosted:

Good job to the devs and everyone that took part to make RL what it is today. Damn good game.

DeftonesPosted:

I don't want a sequel, it quite simply doesn't need it!

ChatPosted:

Damn well this game blew up and even to this day a lot of people play as duh ^ it says there. a lot of people are into it, I played it when it was free on xbox for weekend, wont lie very fun game.

coolbunny1234Posted:

One hell of a concept from the big guys, great business model as well.

lbreadsticklPosted:

Good for them, f a sequel for now. Since its release on Xbox feb '16 I've played it multiple times a week unless out of town. Still play every day although wildlands slowed me down but RL always gets back in my head pretty fast.

Ilcamorrista
maDz Rocket League is the sequel to Super Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars. There is no need for a sequel for an amazing game like this.


Would you recommend buying it?

Some have different perspectives on games, I'd say watch it on twitch to see how it seems to you. It's only $20 so not a loss at all and if u do get it, non ranked you'll play a range of people better than you or worse. I primarily stick to ranked so players are on the same page as me and it's a blast.


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