Rocket League Dev Reduces Item Shop And Blueprint Pricing, As It "Did Not Meet Community Expectations"

Nice on them to reduce the prices, but it's still a bit to expansive for me. Granted I'm not the target audience for this, I'm a casual RL player

That's nice. Seriously, that's all I have to say, NL.

I don't own the game but I don't like the practice of trying to get away with something scummy like this and making it a little bit less scummy because of community complaints.

I was slightly interested in the game but after seeing these practices I don't feel bad by not supporting the developers in any way.

On here there were a lot of apologists for the high prices and justified it. It’s why companies try it on. It’s better but still..... starting with crazy prices so you can lower them to still too high and claim to be heroes is the new revolution in gaming

This is a genuinely fun and unique game that didn’t need the bevy of corporate sponsorships and loot boxes. All the movie tie-ins and sports team skins really tainted the game.

Call me cynical but this just seems like it was the intention all along. Starting at ridiculous prices only lower them a little later so it doesn't seem so bad to people. Too many game publishers making "mistakes" like this recently for it to be a coincidence. Very shady and manipulative practice.

Good that they reduced the price. But let’s be honest, they shouldn’t have overpriced them in the first place.

Companies are getting too greedy and it shouldn’t take community backlash for them to do the right thing first time.

I said it last time. Certain genres, like JRPGs, release massive games that take a lot more money to make, none of their content is behind a paywall and sell a fraction of the copies this game sells. And they paywall most additional content.

The practice itself is the problem.

I personally think companies need to be capped. There are mobile games where you have to spend literally thousands to unlock all the dragons or whatever. They sell gems at £70+ that don’t unlock that much. EA have had similarly expensive things.

I think if you spend a certain amount in a game it should unlock all content from that point forward and cost no more. A microtransition cap. It will protect addicts and kids but will probably only be implemented if a government intervenes and we don’t want that.

We just want companies to be less greedy.

A lot of people called it, this was the plan all along.

People know this is a nintendo site right? Nintendo did the exact same thing when they launched the 3DS, except it took them 6 months to do so, and no one got refunds they just got a bunch of games.

I've been playing rocket league since it launched on PC, I own it on every platform in one form ot another. I've put in well over 1000 hours combined, bought the occasional film tie in car. All this combined has cost me less than the price a splatoon 2.

If you don't like the price of cosmetic items in a game then dont buy them...

I'll buy the game once all micro transactions have been removed. So I'll never play RL.

@chriscare yeah, but looking in retrospective, knowing the 3DS would become one of the best portable consoles ever... I would likely pay full starting price all those years ago.

Looking back into what RL has become... I wouldn’t even pay for the game a year ago.

This was intentional, the price they reduce now was always the intended price so it feels you got a 'bargain', this is called price anchoring.

The Overwatch way of getting cosmetics is the only good one i've seen for cosmetic one wants to earn money from. Just let us earn the boxes for free, in a fair rate and those who don't want or can, can buy them for a fair price. No keys, no stupid fragments.

@Petriebird Beat me to it. The game itself is not nearly as expensive as first party games (probably costs a tenner on sale) and you have access to everything except cosmetic items.

The only micro transactions are essentially ‘skins’, many of which you can eventually unlock anyway. It really doesn’t bother me that much, I might buy the odd one in future, but I don’t feel compelled to.

A fine game playing with others. Cosmetic virtual accessories are cosmetic. And that's it.

Not supporting devs, thieves, moaning... blah blah blah. Where am I? At NintendoLife Kindergarten comments edition?

I enjoy rocket league now and again, but they've always been predatory with their transactions. As others have said, this is 100% charging 'insane' prices at first, so that when they revert to merely 'outrageous' prices it seems like a good deal.

Nasty, nasty behavior. But still a fun game.

The prices are still disgraceful. I've been playing RL since the PS4 launch but if this isn't fixed soon I'm going to stop playing.

This is such a typical move. Start with high prices and then reduce them after the community complains to be seen as generous. The new prices are what was most likely planned from the start.

The best value game I’ve ever owned. Bought for £10 a few years ago in a sale, haven’t spent a penny since and coming up to 500h of enjoyment. A calculated move I think.

@noutBr I don't understand your reasoning behind not wanting to play the game because purely cosmetic items cost too much for you. They don't affect the gameplay in any way and you don't need to spend a dime after the initial cost of the game. That being said, the items were indeed overpriced.

I love how these guys overpriced everything on purpose, only to reduce the prices to the original (intended) price point.

Hence, now everything appears "discounted" and the devs get some brownie points for "listening to the community."

@Cosats First time here?

@diablo2 I've heard that claim a lot. Do you have proof that's what they did?

@chriscare Except it's really not comparable. Nintendo released an expensive device and later lowered the price. In this case Psionix/Epic significantly raised the price of in-game items long after the original release only to then lower it somewhat while still being a fair bit above what these items originally cost.

Last week, one exotic animated decal was at least $10, if not double. It was a pretty gnarly price.

I wish they’d update the stats. The cosmetics don’t do it for me but I’d pay for an overhaul of the stars system

Man, these guys just keep messing up. How they went from $3-on-PS3 indie darling with their last Battle Cars game to poster child of enough-is-never-enough anticonsumerism is beyond me.

I just want a pair of Zombas that's it.