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Epic Bans Rocket League Item Trading, Community Calls for Boycott as Thousands Sign Petition

www.ign.com Epic Bans Rocket League Item Trading, Community Calls for Boycott as Thousands Sign Petition - IGN

The Rocket League community is up in arms over a controversial decision to remove item trading.

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Jokes on you, I'm boycotting the game since Epic bought it and forced me to create an epic account to play it. After I purchased it on Steam, mind you. Absolute douche move and they can go fuck themselves. It should be illegal to alter a game post-launch so that you can't play it under the same circumstances when you bought it.
- Yep. I haven't played since then, partly for the reason you said and partly cause they took away Linux support at the same time, even if you already owned the game on Steam where Linux was fully supported.
  
  The straw for me was when they made Snow Day competitive only. Stupid fucking decision and ruined the game for those of us who just got on to do some casual snow day.
  
  I'm pretty sure this is because Epic servers don't support Linux, payday 2 ran into this recently where Linux just no longer works. Epic is such a shit stain on the games industry
- If I recall correctly they were offering refunds for a time on Steam, regardless of date purchased/hours played when the buyout was first announced. I'm not sure if it's still available, but couldn't hurt to ask.
  
  Also OP would have accepted tos which no doubt set out you don't own the game only a licence to access the game, once it moved off their platform they offered a refund... Shit yes but it's what everyone signed up for when they kept paying steam
- Same: I loved this game but Epic can fuck right off.
- Exactly what I did. Went to Epic and I retired. F em!
Such an odd and overtly terrible decision to make. This helps literally no one, fixes literally no problems and boosts the community pitchfork economy.

The hell are they thinking?
- I mean, it's Epic. I doubt they were thinking
  
  Yep, all they do is fling around their fortnite money
- They are thinking about revenue. A large layoff and now focus on protecting revenue.
  
  For sure. I just don’t see how this helps. I don’t think a bunch of pissed off people are going to run to the shop to purchase the items they want them too.
  
  Maybe in a month they will, but people are rightfully piiissssssed right now.
- 80% of the items are traded for less credits than it costs to build the blueprints so they probably hope that by taking the trading option away that people will spend more money on those 2000CR blueprints
I'm never going to give Epic a single red cent. Their stewardship of Rocket League has been a nonstop parade of fuck-yous:

Pulled the game from Steam

Forced pre-existing Steam users to make Epic accounts

Killed Linux support

Laid off a large number of key studio members

Inserted season passes into a (previously) paid game

Too much take take take. I know this level of publisher meddling isn't uncommon, but it's rarely so obvious. We can see exactly what the game looked like before/after and I'm struggling to think of even a single positive change.
- The enshittification will continue until profits improve.
This opens up future plans for some Rocket League vehicles to come to other Epic games over time, supporting cross-game ownership.

The Meataverse. The shitshow which lead to 900 people being laid off. "Everything EPIC" needs to get under one huge umbrella for this.

Next step will be that you can buy a skin in one game shop and getting it in multiple games, so a pumpkin skin in Fortnite turns automatically into a car skin for Rocket League but costs three times what it costs now, because "You will get sooo much more!!!!" All to make you stay inside the EPIC game world, because the next new game that comes out you can use all these crazy skins in from the start and why would you want the game on Game Pass or Steam where your skins won't work? FOMO meats sunken cost fallacy.

Everything and I mean EVERYTHING Epic does from now on is done for the Epic Metaverse, nothing else will count, not the people working for Epic, not the gaming communities.

The good thing is: It has already started to ruin them and it will continue to ruin them and it will ruin Epic until the CEO has to go and he owns half of the company, so I doubt it is going to happen soon. Look at what this same idea does to "X" or Facebook and in the end there can only be one Metaverse if that idea would work, but it won't.

Tim Sweeney's "apology" for laying off 900 people: "I was spending to much on the Metaverse" - first sentences. "I am going to spent more on the Metaverse anyway!" - last sentences.

Source: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/layoffs-at-epic
My crackhead hopeful idea is that this is the last season of Rocket League and this is just prepping us towards RL2. I always found it weird that Epic continued to allow trading since they were clearly losing money with every player trade. Like, I was happy but shocked Epic was willingly losing all that money to keep the community aspect.

But Rocket League is on Unreal Engine 3 and there really wasn't much they could do to add things. I mean they added some limited time game modes but even psyonix said years ago they're stuck on UE3. I think RL on Unreal Engine 5 is close to being done, which will allow a lot more features to offset the lack of trading. But I'm probably just grasping at straws here

This decisions sucks. I've used up all my car slots designing all diffrent types of cars and without trading it wouldn't have been possible.
- what new features would ue5 allow? wouldn't it just be prettier graphics for a game like rl?
  
  Why would anybody need trading in rocket league? It's just diffrent looking items
- Interesting point, that this may signal incoming Rocket League 2
Ah yes, we all love FOMO
I would never have been able to have a fenic if it wasn't for trading, the car I've used exclusively since acquiring it. The whole system of drops and blueprints is so dumb already and trading is the only thing that rectified it.
Cool, I'll just continue not buying stuff from Epic then.

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