{"id":118579,"date":"2020-09-25T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/370874"},"modified":"2020-09-25T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:49:00","slug":"rocket-league-tops-1-million-concurrent-players-after-free-to-play-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/25\/rocket-league-tops-1-million-concurrent-players-after-free-to-play-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket League tops 1 million concurrent players after free-to-play switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rocket League <\/em>has topped 1 million concurrent players one day after going free-to-play.&nbsp;Psyonix studio co-head Corey Davis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mrcoreydavis\/status\/1309163517040304128\">announced the milestone on Twitter<\/a> on September 24, just one day after the vehicular soccer sim&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/370226\/Rocket_Leagues_life_as_a_free_to_play_game_starts_September_23.php\">made&nbsp;the free-to-play shift<\/a> on September 23.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Epic Games-owned studio had been readying for the free-to-play pivot for some time, and has been incentivizing&nbsp;downloads on the Epic Games Store by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/370701\/Epic_is_offering_10_coupons_to_Rocket_League_players_that_use_the_Epic_Games_Store.php\">offering users $10 worth of credit<\/a> when they download the title.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The free-to-play relaunch also dialed back the title&#8217;s presence on Epic Games Store competitor Stream, making it impossible for new players to download the title through Valve&#8217;s storefront &#8212; although existing owners can continue accessinfg the title.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocket League has topped 1 million concurrent players one day after going free-to-play.&nbsp;Psyonix studio co-head Corey Davis announced the milestone on Twitter on September 24, just one day after the vehicular soccer sim&nbsp;made&nbsp;the free-to-play shift on September 23.&nbsp; The Epic Games-owned studio had been readying for the free-to-play pivot for some time, and has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}