epic game ruined the game

[BlyatMan]

Guys wake up

rocket league was better before

[!Cara]

Originally posted by BlyatMan:

Guys wake up

rocket league was better before

what about the game has changed?

[Juvator]

Originally posted by Otto Octavius:

Originally posted by BlyatMan:

Guys wake up

rocket league was better before

what about the game has changed?

I've been awake all day but I still don't see what has changed so drastically that the game got ruined either.

It's still a skill-based game in which you hold all the cards yourself.

[Smoke]

troll alert. game is the same

[Foxy_Drakaina]

game is not the same, that dosnt mean it's ruined, yet! but if they don't do something about the matchmaking the game is ruined yeah, taken over by those who played since day one, newcomers will try it out and leave it behind for another game

[Heckin' computer]

Yea there is 0 disincentive to Smurf now. It will lead to rampant player inflation and discourage new players from sticking with it to improve without smurf/cheating. Really poorly thought-out move, apart from wanting to make it Epic exclusive

[!Cara]

Originally posted by Heckin' computer:

Yea there is 0 disincentive to Smurf now. It will lead to rampant player inflation and discourage new players from sticking with it to improve without smurf/cheating. Really poorly thought-out move, apart from wanting to make it Epic exclusive

Actually I made a smurf to get to play with some friends of mine that get destroyed even in casual lobbies (in case you didn't know there's a mmr applied to casual it's just not as strict as in ranked) when playin on my steam account
Getting to level 10 to even be able to play ranked feels like ages and Levelcaps are the only thing you can do (especially on a f2p game to discourage smurfing)

Thing is tho the biggest playerbase in rocket league is on ps4 and there you were always able to just create a second account and play the game for free on it, before the f2p transition there wasn't even the level cap on rank to discourage that
Sure smurfing will increase a bit but it has already been a huge problem before f2p, now at least there is a level cap


And what cheats are there in rocket league have you ever played the game?

[Paprika]

cant play a ping-free game for 1 year.

[Kitten Airi]

Ever since the move to Epic the game is really laggy

[ComputerWhiz]

Literally nothing meaningful has changed in the game since the Epic Games takeover. It's still the same game it was before.

The are some complaints about the player skill level because of the flood of new players, but that will get flushed out in a few months when it's no longer a new game on the platform.

And then there are people complaining about the lag. But hasn't the game always been a lag fest? It's a running joke here. I only started having issues in like April, but that was a combination of my ISP being overloaded and the game servers being overloaded when everyone was home from work because of COVID-19. It's better now and (at least in my experience) it's not any more laggy than it was before. In fact, I haven't played with/against a single person yet that had a ping over like 80.

But the game is not broken; Far from it! The fact that Epic wanted to make the game an exclusive is good. It's put some more energy into the community and the development team and it's secured some new content.

Before blindly hating on the game just because of your arbitrary hatred of Epic Games, maybe you should actually look at the game and see that it's not broken.

[!Cara]

Originally posted by ComputerWhiz:

Literally nothing meaningful has changed in the game since the Epic Games takeover. It's still the same game it was before.

The are some complaints about the player skill level because of the flood of new players, but that will get flushed out in a few months when it's no longer a new game on the platform.

And then there are people complaining about the lag. But hasn't the game always been a lag fest? It's a running joke here. I only started having issues in like April, but that was a combination of my ISP being overloaded and the game servers being overloaded when everyone was home from work because of COVID-19. It's better now and (at least in my experience) it's not any more laggy than it was before. In fact, I haven't played with/against a single person yet that had a ping over like 80.

But the game is not broken; Far from it! The fact that Epic wanted to make the game an exclusive is good. It's put some more energy into the community and the development team and it's secured some new content.

Before blindly hating on the game just because of your arbitrary hatred of Epic Games, maybe you should actually look at the game and see that it's not broken.

So tru
It's so funny how people actually just blindly hate epic to the point of someone telling me that he frequents the forum and never heard of server problems before the epic buyout
Like dood, which forum have you been on as it's certainly not the rocket league steam forum

[Fighter of the Nightman]

Originally posted by Otto Octavius:

Originally posted by ComputerWhiz:

Literally nothing meaningful has changed in the game since the Epic Games takeover. It's still the same game it was before.

The are some complaints about the player skill level because of the flood of new players, but that will get flushed out in a few months when it's no longer a new game on the platform.

And then there are people complaining about the lag. But hasn't the game always been a lag fest? It's a running joke here. I only started having issues in like April, but that was a combination of my ISP being overloaded and the game servers being overloaded when everyone was home from work because of COVID-19. It's better now and (at least in my experience) it's not any more laggy than it was before. In fact, I haven't played with/against a single person yet that had a ping over like 80.

But the game is not broken; Far from it! The fact that Epic wanted to make the game an exclusive is good. It's put some more energy into the community and the development team and it's secured some new content.

Before blindly hating on the game just because of your arbitrary hatred of Epic Games, maybe you should actually look at the game and see that it's not broken.

So tru
It's so funny how people actually just blindly hate epic to the point of someone telling me that he frequents the forum and never heard of server problems before the epic buyout
Like dood, which forum have you been on as it's certainly not the rocket league steam forum

I hate epic because they mine your data.

Just I have aa computer that doesn't do any internet browsing only gaming so it doesn't really effect me but it does99% of the playerbase,

[!Cara]

Originally posted by Jesus Loves You:

Originally posted by Otto Octavius:

So tru
It's so funny how people actually just blindly hate epic to the point of someone telling me that he frequents the forum and never heard of server problems before the epic buyout
Like dood, which forum have you been on as it's certainly not the rocket league steam forum

I hate epic because they mine your data.

Just I have aa computer that doesn't do any internet browsing only gaming so it doesn't really effect me but it does99% of the playerbase,

Thing is, psyonix already had that data and epic bought psyonix, you think they would delete the data when they get bought?
And let's say they wouldn't require you to link accounts, the people complaining now would continue to play just like they did after the buyout announcement (seeing how many people see the linking as a no-go but didn't complain before), you think they didn't get your data then? You really think that you can play an online game without the Devs/publisher getting your data?

What's going on right now is the same thing like "trump derangement syndrome" in politics, it doesn't matter if something is a legitimate critique or not as long as you get to say "epic guys bad"

[ComputerWhiz]

Originally posted by Jesus Loves You:

I hate epic because they mine your data.

Just I have aa computer that doesn't do any internet browsing only gaming so it doesn't really effect me but it does99% of the playerbase,

This isn't the first time I've heard this argument, but I'm also not sure how valid it is. You can read the Epic Games ToS and PP and it's pretty much the same as Steam's. In fact, it's more transparent, IMO.

I've heard people say "it says right in the policy that they sell your data", even though everything I've read says the opposite. Whenever I ask for an actual quote from the policy, the OP goes silent. This kind of leads me to believe that it's a baseless claim, especially since the Epic Games CEO has already denied it.

As far as I can tell, the claim is related to a large (but not majority) shareholder of Epic Games, which wouldn't give that company access to the Epic Games (or Rocket League) data.

[!Cara]

Originally posted by ComputerWhiz:

Originally posted by Jesus Loves You:

I hate epic because they mine your data.

Just I have aa computer that doesn't do any internet browsing only gaming so it doesn't really effect me but it does99% of the playerbase,

This isn't the first time I've heard this argument, but I'm also not sure how valid it is. You can read the Epic Games ToS and PP and it's pretty much the same as Steam's. In fact, it's more transparent, IMO.

I've heard people say "it says right in the policy that they sell your data", even though everything I've read says the opposite. Whenever I ask for an actual quote from the policy, the OP goes silent. This kind of leads me to believe that it's a baseless claim, especially since the Epic Games CEO has already denied it.

As far as I can tell, the claim is related to a large (but not majority) shareholder of Epic Games, which wouldn't give that company access to the Epic Games (or Rocket League) data.

Well people are aware of epic as extension of tencent because just like tencent they were caught collecting data through the epic store while denying they are doing it and when getting caught acting like it was a mistake
What those people don't seem to realize that they don't need to force you to link your steam account to an epic account for this kind of stuff as a developer/publisher already gets this data through steam and I didn't see so many people complain about that aspect back when epic bought psyonix, most people kept playing without batting an eye so the data collection aspect is either a bullcrap argument or willfully misleading people that don't know any better

[ComputerWhiz]

Originally posted by Otto Octavius:

Well people are aware of epic as extension of tencent because just like tencent they were caught collecting data through the epic store while denying they are doing it and when getting caught acting like it was a mistake
What those people don't seem to realize that they don't need to force you to link your steam account to an epic account for this kind of stuff as a developer/publisher already gets this data through steam and I didn't see so many people complain about that aspect back when epic bought psyonix, most people kept playing without batting an eye so the data collection aspect is either a bullcrap argument or willfully misleading people that don't know any better

Fair point.

To be honest, I think you'd be hardpressed to find a technology company that doesn't participate in data mining and data sharing on some level (known or unknown).