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Removing Player-to-Player Trading in December
Player-to-Player Trading will be removed later this year. Learn more below.
Rocket League will be removing Player-to-Player Trading On December 5th
- Thread starter dex3108
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So I guess this is to stop players gifting things to each other and try to get them to buy more stuff?
This is very blunt and transparent. That's as far as they can say, "Epic is making us doing this," without actually typing those words.
When Epic bought Rocket League I freaked out then settled down. This shit here is gonna make the community revolt.
There definitely used to be sites for it, but not sure if they survived when they removed the lootboxes.
This is going to affect two of the DLC trophies in the game - Swap Meet (trade and receive one or more items with another player in a single transaction) and Trade Secret (trade in five items of the same quality to receive an item of the next highest quality).
Some of the others like Storm Trooper and Budding Artist may be a bit tougher to get legit.
Some of the others like Storm Trooper and Budding Artist may be a bit tougher to get legit.
I'm most curious about this bit of text. I don't know how removing trading satisfies this goal, but I have seen speculation that Fortnite Racing Mode coming next season was developed as Rocket League Racing. When is the next season of Fortnite supposed to start? Dec 6?
I've never cared about trading but this is very bad for the community... on top of all the other shit that's been bad for the Rocket League community for years.
But regardless the game feels like it's in bad shape, and this newest measure is going to offer NO confidence. It reeks of desperation at a time where we've basically gone years of being on edge wondering when things will get better.
Rocket League is my favorite game of all time, please don't fuck it up Epic.
- Communication - their last big heart to heart with the community is from almost 2 years ago iirc, where they basically said "we know we've been bad at communicating and will do better going forward 🥰" Well that obviously wasn't true
- Rocket Pass and in general season updates have been considered a joke for a long time now. They provide terrible new maps (the newest one is basically a super low effort reskin, most new maps are removed from rotation after their into season because they're so shit and hated - some have been changed in the season they're introduced in), some car nobody cares about, and refuse to offer tangible updates like letting you play Limited Time Modes in private matches or offer better training tools or even a tenth of the content few online modders manage to pump out for the PC version all the time
- RLCS is taking an EXTREMELY long break, all the way to next year (it's assumed, anyway, remember they don't communicate shit). Lots of financially failing orgs taking the opportunity to drop out, and there's (maybe baseless) speculation of the game being franchised which would be bad for the pro scene
- While it didn't seem excessive, in the last epic layoffs we lost some social managers from Psyonix. I'm sure this will help with the communication issue
- While they have no obligation to discuss the UE5 update and I'm sure it's a complicated situation to update an shares live, consistent experience like this, the community is pretty fucking sick of knowing it exists but having no updates. It certainly feels like the epic buyout destroyed the culture of interacting with the community of players (honestly think it might've started before that, but it's the general perception)
But regardless the game feels like it's in bad shape, and this newest measure is going to offer NO confidence. It reeks of desperation at a time where we've basically gone years of being on edge wondering when things will get better.
Rocket League is my favorite game of all time, please don't fuck it up Epic.
I've traded before but I don't have these achievements yet for some reason. Were they added at a later date perhaps?
While this doesn't matter to me too much, I have traded with some random and did buy a Twinzer off eBay for a few bucks. Rocket League is the only game me and my friends play consistently, and I feel like they keep giving me incentive to leave.
It's been pathetic to see first the keys and now trading removed while the item shop prices are ridiculous, have there been any actual positive changes to this game since its acquisition?
They fucked it up years ago.
They just reskin maps and call it a day most seasons, and I'll never forgive them for making it so I couldn't use the T-Rex goal explosion on my Skyline YEARS after the fucking thing came out.
Unless I'm misunderstanding this would "only" affect that first trophy, trading in items is an in game inventory mechanic that has nothing to do with trading with other players. It's referred to in the first Q&A as not changing with this update.
That's fucking nuts? I used to see that explosion used a lot, did they force it to only working with the Jurassic Park jeep? Dumb ass Psyonix. Also took a moment to smile and remember that bundle cost $2 in 2018, whereas buying a black market goal explosion, new vehicle, toppers and banners these days would like sell for $30+ individually in today's Rocket League. I wonder why more people aren't buying things in the item shop? 🤔
when it was on steam it used the steam marketplace to do this
theres a reason lol
Yep. It's wisely worded to basically say "Direct your hate to Epic, not us. We did not want this".
I have no doubt the devs wanted no part of this and basically had a gun put to their head by Epic, in their desperate greed to wring out every cent possible from their owned IP's since they're in free fall.
I just hope everyone gets the message from this and rightfully direct their anger and hate towards Epic, and not the devs.
I'm the one responsible building that tracker, I can guarantee you it's accurate, but it obviously sucks for us, as 90% of our traffic is trading. End of an era for me.
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Sorry to hear it bud :( Saw you in the Reddit thread but didn't realize you would be on Era as well. I figured this would be the death knell of the site and am sorry this is happening for you (and everyone else it'll absolutely negatively affect). I only recently found your site because of the number tracking (I was paying attention to how popular knockout bash was so I can hate Psyonix not adding it to the game in a more accessible manner - it seemed to frequently be the third most popular mode after ranked and casual 2s when I checked) and was just super impressed with the site in general. Hope you land on your feet after this BS. This sucks for fans but it's even worse for people like you that have worked so hard to build a community and a livelihood around that community.
(No big deal but you quoted the wrong person with my comment by the way)
The only reason I ever traded is because it felt impossible to get the stuff I actually wanted otherwise. It was an absolute chore, but it surely beat just checking the store everyday and hoping.
Thank you for your kind words and sorry for the messed up quote, fixed that now.
I really hope this backfires for Psyonix/Epic, but I don't have much hope. They'll probably announce another boring licensed items update next week and people forget.
At the time I did Trade Secrets trophy, it could be obtained in player to player trade, but the other player had to give you the higher grade item as part of the trade.
I don't ever remember the trade-in mechanic until seeing it much later so probably you're right.
I really wonder if Rocket League's days are numbered. I'm going to be working on the last two trophies I need for the 100% to be on the safe side.
The trade it system sucks, a lot of times I offer up a bunch of good stuff like blue and purple blueprints I don't want and get a common topper in return.
Improve that system before taking away, another, let alone blueprints being way too expensive to craft and earnings credits being way too slow even with the pass.
Improve that system before taking away, another, let alone blueprints being way too expensive to craft and earnings credits being way too slow even with the pass.