{"id":50814,"date":"2020-07-22T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2665109"},"modified":"2020-07-22T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T13:45:00","slug":"rocket-league-announces-free-to-play-shift-eventual-removal-from-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/22\/rocket-league-announces-free-to-play-shift-eventual-removal-from-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket League announces free-to-play shift, eventual removal from Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3998-ICN.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"postimage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.slashgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Rocket-League-Faded-Cosmos2-1280x720.jpg\" alt=\"Rocket League announces free-to-play shift, eventual removal from Steam\" width=\"745\" height=\"419\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p><em>Rocket League<\/em>&nbsp;is about to go through some big changes. Following the game&rsquo;s fifth anniversary, developer Psyonix has announced that&nbsp;<em>Rocket League<\/em>&nbsp;is going free-to-play later this summer. Not only that, but we&rsquo;ll also see Psyonix implement cross-platform progression and launch the title on the Epic Games Store.<\/p>\n<p>That launch on the Epic Games Store isn&rsquo;t a shock since Epic now owns Psyonix, but it does mean that the game will be removed from Steam once it makes the transition to free-to-play. The good news is that it will only be removed from the Steam storefront &ndash; those who already have the game in their Steam libraries will be able to continue playing the game through Steam after&nbsp;<em>Rocket League<\/em>&nbsp;makes the free-to-play switch.<\/p>\n<p>So, what happens to the people who have already purchased&nbsp;<em>Rocket League<\/em>? Anyone who has played the game online before the free-to-play launch will be rewarded with a number of in-game goodies. Those include all of the&nbsp;<em>Rocket League<\/em>&nbsp;DLC that was released before the free-to-play transition, an &ldquo;Est. 20XX&rdquo; title that shows the year you started playing, &ldquo;200+ Common items upgraded to &lsquo;Legacy&rsquo; quality,&rdquo; a Golden Cosmos Boost, Dieci-Oro Wheels, and the Huntress Player Banner.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, those who played online before&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketleague.com\/news\/rocket-league-going-free-to-play-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this announcement<\/a>&nbsp;was made today will get the Faded Cosmos Boost. In the end, there are quite a few rewards up for grabs for current&nbsp;<em>Rocket League<\/em>&nbsp;players, and all of them will be available when the game goes free-to-play later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Psyonix says that existing players will get to keep their inventory when the switch is made, on top of saying that cross-platform progression will go live when free-to-play does. That means your items, Rocket Pass progression, and Competitive Rank will carry over from platform to platform, but you&rsquo;ll need an Epic Games Account for that to happen. We&rsquo;ll keep an eye out for more information about this free-to-play change for&nbsp;<em>Rocket League<\/em>, and we&rsquo;ll let you know when we hear more, so stay tuned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketleague.com\/news\/rocket-league-going-free-to-play-this-summer\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.rocketleague.com\/news\/rocket-league-going-free-to-play-this-summer\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Eric Abent <\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Eric Abent <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/3998-ICN.png\" alt=\"\">Rocket League&nbsp;is about to go through some big changes. Following the game&rsquo;s fifth anniversary, developer Psyonix has announced that&nbsp;Rocket League&nbsp;is going free-to-play later this summer. Not only that, but we&rsquo;ll also see Psyonix implement cross-platform progression and launch the title on the Epic Games Store. That launch on the Epic Games Store isn&rsquo;t a shock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/22\/rocket-league-announces-free-to-play-shift-eventual-removal-from-steam\/\">Continue reading <span>Rocket League announces free-to-play shift, eventual removal from Steam<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/22\/rocket-league-announces-free-to-play-shift-eventual-removal-from-steam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rocket League announces free-to-play shift, eventual removal from Steam - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/22\/rocket-league-announces-free-to-play-shift-eventual-removal-from-steam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rocket League announces free-to-play shift, eventual removal from Steam - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rocket League&nbsp;is about to go through some big changes. 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