wanted to make this video not to purely bash Epic Games, but to voice out a lot of concerns from the community that I've seen these last few months in hopes for a better future. looks like they actually came out with a solid update yesterday so I'm hoping for some shift that can really push Rocket League in the direction of it's potential. 2024 is the year that likely makes or breaks Rocket League
That hit me really hard too, especially when you see the prices of items in the shop, 2000 credits for a black market decal that looks like sht and also was like 400 credits in rl insider, it seems like rocket league is solwly turning into Venezuela
It is actually true. If you look at the prices of the item shop it seems like they see us players as customers. And if you would compare the prices of items we had for them when trading was still here you clearly can see that epic games just wants money, money and money. But to be honest this is not the first time where they only want money...
But that's true. Every game that becomes "live service" is like that. Show me a game with a battle pass that has fair monetization and company cares about the game or people playing it?
What’s wild is the communication. I think we can all handle news about layoffs, dropping casters, lack of updates and why, if Epic just talks to us. They’ve dropped bombs on the community with no warning and we have received no good news in return. For any woman out there, this is what getting kicked in the balls feels like
Cell you and other content creators are doing really well finding content keep going I really understand how it can be hard but if more of u like sunless temporarily quit we will have nothing 😭
Playing since release...something changed a few seasons ago, matching making wasnt consistent, playing people with wildly different skill levels in ranked. It just feels off, to many little changes, in the background, that just dont make it as fun as it used to be. So sad, ive not played for over a month now
Exactly, it’s all the little updates they are doing that’s ruining the game. Yet people are constantly complaint for more updates… while us old players just want them to leave the damn game alone…
If they were good at being greedy they'd protect a profitable asset like Rocket League. Rocket League hasn't been around so long because it lost money, lol. It's a real shame Psyionix let go of their game, I don't know the details of the sale but they could have protected their employees and potentially made more money holding onto the game.
Trading removal was the end of it for me. I have 4000+ hours in the game.. I am flabbergasted a company can fuck up a game so quick. Never will I touch that field again. As someone who has played since August of 2015... absolutely horrible company.
same man. It was just so blatantly obvious that it was a sign of the shitshow to come, so i basically quit right then and there. I wish I didn’t have to, but if the game is gonna be killed anyway, why cling to it. Why give a shit or try to get good if it’s just gonna fade into obscurity in the next few years.
i played so much in 2020 - 2023 summer, rl was my way of chilling aftr a long day, its sad to see this route taking effect hopefully someone will listen, someone from the team behind it will take into account issues.
no what it showing us is the failure of the consumer, to many of us bought into this fairy tail of battlepasses and microtransactions and lost sight of what was actually important. The consumer is to blame for allowing all of this to happen in the first place. When the player base didn't rebel as epic stole the game you loved with an evil grin as they took steps to ban players with the balls to talk shit back to the toxic 10 yearolds of the worst era in gaming history. speak with your wallet it's the only thing triple A devs understand.... the game can be shit nowadays as long as it's just addicting enough to keep anyone with deep enough pockets to support it through a legendary cape for only a small 100$..... people need to wake up and stop spending money on Games as a Service..... if you wanted to make the BIGGEST company in history right now all you would have to do is make a game and let the community mod it to shit for free with a paid mod section that you take 5% of.... there wouldn't be another gaming company that could even stand up to you as they all have taken the power of creation away from the community except the few outliers.
@@TheVoidxi Everything wrong with the world today can be tied back to corporate greed. This one situation isn't special. Fuck Epic, and fuck all the corporations that put shareholders above employees and customers. So pretty much fuck all corporations lol
@@Wheelman2004 all im pointing out is that corporations aren't the sole reason. As a consumer when you interact with anti consumer based policies and do not speak with your dollars, you are giving it the ok to proceed and grow in that direction. Unfortunately monopolies have been created under the guise of competition while everyone "competing" against each other has the same share holders in power.....
@@TheVoidxi Voting with your dollar is a myth. Companies will do whatever the fuck they want, and there's no amount of 'voting with your dollar' that can stop it. This is not a 'consumer' issue. We are their player base. They are failing to provide us with basic ass shit, and the game is suffering because of it. But they don't care. They're just continuing to do the same lame ass shit.
@@elvin3162 so you ass the player base can make a choice.... stop giving them money for the useless shit or it will keep coming... this is absolutely a failure of the consumer as well as greedy devs. but make no mistake sir companies only look at the Profit from these "shitty consumables" and if they are profitable they will never be gone.
Appreciate the shout out, Musty. I did really care about the game. All of us did. This community gave me some of the best experiences of my life. I'll be forever grateful to everyone for welcoming me as one of your community managers. Despite everything happening right now, there isn't a day that goes by where I don't wish I could still be there doing my best to support you all. Take care 👋
My guess is that in the next few years Rocket league will become an alternate mode in fortnite just like fall guys probably will as well like racing rn is and no longer be a stand alone thing, and these slow times are the inbetween time before they fuse the game to fortnite
this game just needs a reboot. I could raise this game better than Epic can. Fortnite is a spreading disease. It can and WILL kill other games within the snap of two fingers. (Edit) sry for the war in the comments lol
its a fact fortnite is becoming a hub to play every single game. Wouldn't be surprised if rocket league goes offline and becomes a game within fortnite.
my friend used to love to play rocket league and would play it every day but now with all that rl has done he said it was now boring and went to play fortnite:(
Epic can kill RL with the snap of a finger, I don't think its fair to blame RL's downfall on Fortnite. Both games could succeed, but that's up to the owners.
I am just so devastated that a corporation can do something like this. For me, I used to play this when I was kid. I have had so many good memories and moments in this game. I feel bad for all of the content creators, the pros, anyone involved with Rocket League, because they have put their blood, sweat, and tears in making this a great game and Epic Games just doesn't give anything back. I hope Epic Games revamps Rocket League. Love you Musty keep it up man!
Nope. This wasn't a mistake. They probably needed to stop trading to close the window on player's items/accounts from being accessed through whatever ways in are left open BECAUSE of that crossover between RL and Rocket Racing. So, have trading and potentially have your account hacked/lose your items/account or don't have trading and retain what you own. Sucks, but that's it since they most likely wouldn't even know where to look when it comes to backdoors into accounts, especially for this game they'd prefer to have in working order ASAP for as long as possible without having to do any upkeep.
@@JUNK_ZONEwell that is probobly true but I'm pretty sure people would rather have trading in rocket league than have there rocket league items in rocket racing.
There was a time in my past where I was extremely down and my head was full of dark thoughts. Rocket League was an outlet for me during this period, I sunk in over 300 hours into this game - more than any game (I'm not much of a gamer). This is when I discovered many of the RL pros and creators like musty, and would religiously watch them on RUclips and twitch. I even followed all pro events regularly. Thinking back, all of this was a big blur in my memory because of the depression I was going through at the time but this video helped me remember the good parts of those times, when I'd just get lost in RL for hours and sometimes even meet some cool people through the game. This game has a special place in my heart and I hope Epic games really gets their shit together and undoes their mistakes. Pains me to see this game dying because of damn fortnite, jeez. I just went back to check in on all of the RL creators I used to watch and it's safe to say none of them are doing good in terms of views. Rocket League needs a resurgence and I hope that happens before it dies down beyond the point of no return.
In 2020 i was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, we all know what 2020 was. Rl was a god send for me. thankfully i beat it But even after 10k hours this game is going downhill after Epic took over.
I’ve been saying for years. Rocket league has the potential to be one of the biggest eSports in the scene. If it’s done correctly, it could change eSports as a whole. So sad to see it being left unmanaged basically
Ikr? I mean imo its like the most accessible esport for casuals. Basically soccer with cars. This esports should have become top 3 most popular esports but these people dont care.
@@TheFilthy5ifty well you havent played many games either if thats the hardest one to you. Hell I have 11k hours on cs, plus a fuck ton more on r6, rust, comp cod back in the day etc, EVEN THEN ill say LoL is 10x harder than rocket league lol. Ive put like 3k hours into league still plat, 1900 hours in RL peaked gc2.
I don't think I've ever seen a game fall off in popularity and hype as fast as rocket league has recently. Epic is deliberately killing the game and something needs to be done to get their hands off of it
Musty to the rescue! 2023 RLCS World Championships was the first my brother and I ever watched from home. We were insanely inspired by the excitement, community, and talented pros. Then we wondered why there was no Fall Major a few months later (eventually realizing this was abnormal for RL). Later in November, I made my first trades and got some awesome, rare items just because I knew it was ending. Now, I wish I traded much more while it existed. The past few weeks of RLCS have been exciting in 2024, but it won't continue if they defund pro play. Squishy retiring is just the tip of the iceberg. I hope they make some changes.
I never really got into trading either until I saw some really cool decals and was like "yo I want that" and so I actually dumped some money into that, and I love the items, but I never had the chance to get the full set like I wanted, all because of them taking trading away. I can't even get the items through the drops at all because of how many items are in the game. giant L from "Epic" Games.
@@ThatOneGuyEmblem yeah, I miss trading already. Plus, I don’t think you can get rocket pass items or any limited items via drops or the item shop. I never got Radosin’s decal 🙁 (think it’s called filiformer).
damn bro. musty my heart goes out to you and all of these other amazing content creators. this gives me so much respect for y’all; knowing the hard work and effort it takes just to try and dig for something new- to find a new diamond in the rough to guide your content, it kills my heart for this game that i love. it’s truly a sad thing to see- monopolies like epic games that come in and get rid of the passion; they fire the talented and creative self-reliant workers just to take a more utilitarian approach. it becomes a machine. we don’t need a machine. this game was made by people. talented people with dreams and creativity. i wish i was older and smart enough to know if epic games is even doing what’s best for their company or just running it into the gutter. anyways ig i’m just trying to say i’m proud of you and the other content creators. y’all have done all you can and shared yourselves with us. your amazing ideas and creativity are so greatly loved by the community and appreciated. please don’t forget that. unfortunately it just sucks man. but we’re all in the same boat together. i don’t want any of you to lose your innovative spirits or creativity, because y’all are so much better than to willingly offer them to a closed ear. god bless y’all, i love you guys 🫶🔥❤️
Taking away drop shot was annoying huge killer for me. There are hoops mains and drop shot mains. Imagine your main game mode over the past 4 years just up and goes away. It sucks. I haven’t played since.
I sent an email to epic games about rocket league and problems with the game and they responded with a form letter about how they are always trying to improve fortnite. That's how much they care about you.
I once tried to report a racist player directly through Rocket League support and they responded with a link that would "help me with that matter" I clicked the link and it led me to a guide on their website showing how to report players in *_Fortnite_*
i came back to rocket league this year but i didnt know what was going on with it or anything and i was confused on why i couldnt trade until i saw this video. I grew up with rocket league and now its just sad to see it die.
Same, I grew up with roll it was the first device I used, and seeing it die with no trading, (didn’t get to try it) can’t play with guests, and no more custom matches
Im on my universitys rocket league team and whats happening with rocket league is really worrying, ive spent so much time as well as other players harnessing our skills to get better at this game we love so much and they are just ruining it, taking away key features and game modes that negatively affect your average player as well as ruining the rlcs scene which is eliminating pros and castors. Its hard to put so much time into a game you love when you can't help but feel like the game is just slowly disappearing and will eventually be gone, i feel as if squishy retiring as well as lobby's being harder and harder to find sums it all up pretty well. Great video musty I really hope this gets someone's attention.
It’s so frustrating because like you said, all of our gripes and concerns feel like they are just being cast out into the void with no answers or explanations. We are sat here watching our game die slowly, and it’s more than just a great game on the line, it’s entire careers, thousands of hours of work, ‘wasted’ childhoods grinding to be the best and so much more. And I’m sure psyonix has to just feel sick seeing what’s happened to their darling. I don’t hold them accountable for anything because this truly feels like epic strong arming them to exercise their will and squeeze the community of every last dollar they can get.
Mertzy is absolutely right with this tweet. 13:44 Super sad but its the truth and we have to accept it. Epic games is ruining many peoples lives and my childhood for money.
i miss dropshot :( . i doubt anyone else does, as when it gets late in my timezone DS matches would start to take forever to queue, but man do i miss that mode. i could play it for hours on end and it really felt like i learned a lot of fundamentals through that mode. i hit low diamond in 2s and 3s (im not good by any metric other than comparing to casual players maybe), and i dont think i ever even broke out of plat in dropshot, but GOD was it fun. i dont really care for anything else in the game, i would play 2s ranked and get a rank every season just to do it and see where i placed, but by far i played dropshot almost exclusively. havent been on pretty much since it was removed. maybe its not dropshot for everyone, but i hear similar sentiments from friends for other things they enjoyed.
I don't know if there was temporarily no drposhot but the mode is still in the game even in ranked. Didn't even registered it wasn't in the game (if it wasn't)
@@slovnicurling9808 Every other season Drop Shot and Snow Day swap out in the competitive list. This season (Season 14) has Drop Shot, next season will have Snow Day. There is no reason for them to do this. It just makes people upset every 3 months when a mode they actually like is taken out for no apparent reason...
Yesterday I had to wait 7 minutes to get into a C1 2s lobby I have never had that problem before Rocket league is changing into something unrecognisable
what just because of the ranking system, really? Who cares about that, the game is still good. You can still have a blast playing it. Problem mainly is that epic I guess aren't seeing much profit with it and will happily kill off the game if it saves them money on resources. They want little effort on these games and massive profits, unfortunately rocket league doesn't bring them that. Which is a damn shame, because the core of the game is unmatched. Gonna miss rl when it's gone
came back after a few months to play 4 games. In 3/4 one opponents threw the game and in the other game my teammate joined for 30 sec and left i got to a score of 2 - 2 and he joins back misses a shot and leaves.
I totally agree with everything you said. I stopped playing RL after they announced they were getting rid of trading even though I have never traded but I saw a ton of people were not happy with it so I didn't want to support a game that didn't listen to its players. It sounds like it's gotten a lot worse since I stopped paying attention and left at a good time. I know you make a living off the game and I know this affects you more than people like me. I hope everything is going well for you.
Some friends of mine bought credits just for trading. They refuse to buy anything now. I rarely traded (just with friends if one of us had something the other wanted to use) but after that announcement, I refuse to buy anything from them ever again. So they've lost at least 4 people from that decision. Wish more would have followed suit.
Used to play more back in the day but not much anymore. Really sad to see that game die like this as I have a long history with it being an EST. 2016 player.
@@inmysystem007 that’s true but I’ve been having longer que times. Worse matchmaking, and it honestly just doesn’t feel the same. I’m playing just cuz I love the game, I no longer care about getting better yk
I started playing is early 2017, really became passionate about it in late 2018 and it became my main game. I uninstalled it just the other day bc I just don’t enjoy it anymore and it was honestly sad and hard to do.
I feel you dude. 2016-2022 with only a handful of breaks about a month or two long. Just focusing on aim training for mouse control and FPS games, because it’ll take a lot for that entire genre to die. It’ll also take a lot for the mouse to be replaced entirely 😂 it’s also fun, which is important
I'm only 16 but I've been watching people play this game since 2015. I watched this game grow so much and I feel like I grew up with this game. whenever I got tired of everything else, I can't imagine this game dying. it hasn't changed much gameplay wise but I could always just have fun on rocket league every now and then. the game never died after all this time. I just regret not playing even more now. it's not even as fun as it was pre 2020. I never thought it was going to end up with the game feeling stale, the microtransactions feeling worse than 2016 crates, and now everyone I watched for years has stopped loving the game too. 2015. Literally half of my life has been filled with 2k+ hours of rocket league and probably another thousand hours watching rocket league content and it feels like yesterday neatmike was making videos about rocket league rage and jonsandman was making videos with woofless. I just think it's fascinating how much the game has fallen off with it's own community. ik I'm just a player who is barely above the average casual player in skill (gc peak once before ssl came out), but even people who put 10k+ hours can't find a reason to keep playing and it's just sad to see
broooooooo, the fact that musty just summed up everyones concerns and anger in one video and, also that as the biggest continent creator for rocket league stepped up to epic like this; goes to show how good of a human being he is and how he didn't sell out and cut deals with epic like tenacity did and stayed quiet about all this. This is why I watch your content and a select few others instead of people like tenacity. mad respect musty.
@@felixghiringhelli5852 he ran a couple epic ads right after he expressed his discontent with RL. Pretty much they bought him off to stay quiet cuz of his influence
The problem with Rocket Racing isn't that it's bad, it's that the player base asked for a 'racing' game mode for years and this is what they give us. It's a poor attempt to release a new game, which is already dead, and one that shares literally nothing with Rocket League.
Everything we as players were afraid for when it was announced that Epic will take over rocket league has happened and even more. A game I used to love thrown in the bin by Epic they don't care and its sad to see a game like this slowly going down.
fok trading. Petition Rocket league itself. If we all just stop playing the that'll actually hurt rocket league way more than just commenting on their posts. I havent played in months and neither have my friends.
@@Marcelo-ff6is point is, that way you really hurt the game, and not just the company. As Musty said in the video, “hate the company, not the game”. We need to make petitions and gather up so many opinions that they cannot be ignored anymore, and that obviously doesn’t only include trading.
Everybody needs to just get rid of fortnite who plays rocket league. Obviously it their money maker, and in order for them to care money needs to be subtracted where it hurts.
Iv'e been playing RL since 2016, and we all knew it was going to go downhill once Epic bought Psyonix, but we didn't think it would be this bad. Sucks to see the game we all love get ruined by corporate greed like this.
I feel you bro. My friends and I quit when they dropped trading, but it was just the final straw after the slow rotting away of the game. Sell the game Epic!
I haven’t played in 3-4 years, it was an awesome game to play with friends. I enjoyed the trading aspect to share different stuff with friends and they made me enjoy watching competitive on twitch to receive rewards in game. Sad to see this is what it has come to. It is an older game now for sure and is evident from this video that they are pushing it to the side..., despite there being so much potential still.
I used to play back in 2019 and early 2020 and I joined back now, and unironically nothing has really changed, except for the fact that it’s more p2w bruh
And don't forget for this season they took Dropshop out of all queues for a while, but kept it in tournaments: you could play a tourney for a mode you couldn't actually queue for otherwise, for weeks and weeks and weeks. I'm not a DS main myself, but I feel bad for those who are. I have tons of time in the game and love it, but I play it less and less now. I thought Rocket Racing was going to be in Rocket League-- I was grinding the monaco-style track in Rax's Rocket Park map, grinding down lap times and BAM! RRacing was in Fortnite. That killed the drive for me. I play FN for FN, not for RL. And then there's all the smurfs. Rainbow 6 just *introduced* trading after 8 years and that community is stoked. It's just depressing whenever I think about grinding in RL for any reason at all. My passion has dwindled, and Epic has done nothing to rekindle it.
I used to play back in the days of 2016-2020, but now every few weeks a few matches and I am very sad about this shift. When Epic Games bought Psyonix, I already knew this would inevitably be the outcome... 💔
This reminds me of when one of my favorite games (Echo vr) got deleted. It shows that even though the game was small, the shutdown could've been avoided. This also shows that the same thing can happen with big games as well.
I miss this game. It used to be so amazing and I have spent more than 13,000+ hours in this game and then one day I just stopped and I was never able to get back into it. I love this game so much but it needs to get better.
whatever they did to the rank system is killing the game for me. ive been steady champ 2 for the past 2 seasons now im diamond 2 and my teammates seem plat while the opponents seem champ passing and flip resetting. its basically win one lose 4 now
You too? It's like an impossible barrier. Bro I legit face Grand Champ title smurfs in one game then the next I got a Gold 3 and a Plat 2.. Make it make sense.
I took a month off after 8 years of playing cause I was just sick of it and mad at epic. Not only got rid of trading but one of my favorite game modes drop shot is either gone or on rotation. Like wtf were they thinking
in 2017 i started this game and was a casual, i would just play for fun. Then my friend introduced me into trading and i loved it and when covid hit i took a break. and i got back on and i said to my friend yoooo wanna trade and then he broke the news that trading is gone and note that my account got deleted randomly (apparently because i didn't play enough) which made me mad when i had to make a new account with nothing on it. nice one epic.
I've been at rocket league since 2020, and this shit hurts man. I can't even imagine how it feels for the people getting laid off or the pros. I dreamt of being a pro rocket league player, but this shit makes it difficult to have hope for the future.
@@robdog979 I **was** high champ 3, about to break through into gc, but because I took a month break and this is the shit I came back to? I really can't find the will to get back into the game.
@@AeroDKTthe same happened to me man, but I've been playing since early 2016, tho I got good last year, I was 50 points away from being GC but I quit because I got bored of it and now I'm barely champ jajaj
Over summer, I played this game so much with my friends and had a blast. But once September rolled around, when Epic started to really kill this game by removing trading, this game really just became not fun to me. My teammate who had been grinding for a year to hit champ 1 quit, I started playing less and less, only playing an hour or two a week and only with my friends, whereas I used to play in free play for 5 hours straight on a Saturday morning with a smile the whole time.
@@scary5455You’ve never played rocket league. You don’t understand, it just wasn’t the same after epic bought it. They only care about money, they don’t even care about the players. It’s evidenced in their actions: removing trading so people have to buy from the item shop, not catering to any of the communities requests, lowering the prize pool for RLCS.. it’s sad. Game had so much potential.
@@scary5455nah rocket league is competitive. Dedicated players want to get better and better but when you can’t see a future for the game it starts feeling like a waste of time and sucks all your motivation away.
I've played fallout 4, witcher 3, skyrim, all multiple times. Time has nothing to do with the longevity of a game, let alone and ONLINE game that can constantly be updated with cool new things. WHat a stupid way to justify what the corp did to kill this game@@scary5455
What the hell, man i never subscribed to musty, i watched him on and off for like 5 years, but this got recommended and mans GREW on youtube holy mustycow. What did he do show his winky to the youtube founders or something haha
This is so true, we need Psyonix back in control, if you played before free to play you know exactly what i'm talking about. This is why my nightmare was Epic Games buying RL and making it so Fortnite - like... At this point it's not even fortnite like, so many people quit genuinely because it's so easy to tell that Epic dosen't give jackshit about Rocket League, they ruined the fanbase, trading community, and the playerbase, soon RLCS is gonna be empty..
Ive left the game after the removal of trading, sadly things have just gotten worse, cant say I didn’t expect it, but it is still sad to see, thank you for the video musty, glad to see all the frustrations collected in a video.
I’ve been a player since the beginning as well (off and on) and it’s a game I’ve grown to play with my father, who plays almost no other game but RL. (Neither of us are great, but it’s some of the best fun I have) He’s a fan of you and the pros as well, and it’s been so disappointing to see the game become so stale, and to see some great pros and casters leave. I hope there is more to come for RL 😞
i think it was on a stale phase for awhile but removing trading put the nail in the coffin, not buying another battle pass until it's back or epic sells the company. Probably wont happen*
As an ex Esports halo player, the worst this for any games is having a low age range. For me I now have zero physical social life, heavily failed in school and for what just to be called a halo tournament winner. The age range should be for after you finish school grades aren't really that important but they allow you to go to college and university
Back during Halo2, it wasn't even "esports" (a cringe name). It was "professional gaming". We were more akin to professionals than pretending to be athletes. Pretending pro gamers are athletes has always been a mistake
Great points Musty. It's been heartbreaking for me as a long time fan watching the game break down behind the scenes but I still enjoy watching your videos just as much as ever. So at least people like you still exist. When I saw that Squishy was retiring, I genuinely started crying man. It's fucking Squishy... Hopefully unreal engine 5 or something comes out. At this point I'm so done looking at all the decal and dlc news that I just automatically ignore it when RL tweets now. Let's see what happens in the future I guess.
I hate hearing people say " we need a roadmap." I didnt stop playing because there wasnt a roadmap, i stopped playing because everytime i open the game theres a feature removed or a new bug. I love playing rocket league still but im not going to spend my time grinding to get good at a game that is clearly on its way out
Of course the game in its current state doesn't make much i imagine. And i guess they weren't receiving much profit, even before they made worse decisions for it. But at least in this state they can suck every last penny from it, before they kill it off
I had this game for so long but only actually got into when I got internet a few years ago. Peaked at grand champ and quit when they removed trading. I never even used trading but I already had a extreme hate for epicgames. It’s really sad, it’s probably the game I enjoyed the most to come home and play.
case in point, for the rlcs qualifiers my friends and I were queuing for a fun few matches, second round lower bracket we versed a team of rlcs regional champs. It's just gotten out of hand
Stopped playing cause f2p led to insanely high number of smurfs, or ppl straight duo boosting their friends on fresh epic accounts, and this still hasnt been addressed to this day as my friends say. On top of that, the recent mmr changes which dropped everyone in rank, suddenly now you're 2 ranks down but playing with the same people... for what? kill my expectations on getting gc? Just said nah i got better games to play. Also, i used to trade a lot, now its gone, part of the community and my interest. Used to play everyday at least 1-2 hours, nowadays i play 1-2 times a week when friends call to premade.
last time i played rocket league or even watched any content was around 5 years ago mainly being Kronovi and JonSandman. Seeing the state of the game now is absolutely mind boggling to me as still to this day the memories I have with rocket league have been so awesome. sad asf to see whats happened till now
For me it is simple, trading removed had some impact on me but facing smurfs 3 ranks higher than me just as I am about to rank up, throwing away the hours I put in the game trying to get better. Epic making their game free is cool but they should have made some system against smurfs.
There is not much they can do about smurfs. Theres few things to make smurfing harder. First thing is that u have to lvl up to 10 to play comp and the second is giving new account extreme mmr boosts, so if u win even 9 out of 10 placement games its hard to not reach high champ 1.
The one thing about Rocket League is that there is no other game like it. Not even Epic can screw up the core mechanics of the game. If there is no competition, it will probably never fully "die."
surely they'll get the message even though everyone in the community has directly replied to them and shared their negative feedback immediately and they read it
you guys dont understand. One thing is to get the message, another is to LISTEN to the message. Epic Games are not dumb. They get the message very well but they just want fortnite to grow.
They took away loot boxes and that hurt.. but to take away trading too😢 I’ve gave at least 5 friends free stuff through trading and they loved it and were hooked.. it seems like it went downhill when epic took over.. idk I’ll always love it but damn they messed up.. Appreciate ya musty you the man🤙
Yeah this isn’t getting talked about enough. We went from paying 20$ for 20 items ($20 for 20 keys which opened 20 crates) to $20 for ONE item (black markets now cost 2k credits, or $20). If that’s not batshi* insane to you, then help me understand why
I don’t even play Rocket League anymore. I stopped a while back, but I’ve still enjoyed watching content creators like you because I genuinely enjoy your personality. If one day you move on, you’ll still have my viewership.
Rocket League is the only video game I played with my brother who passed away 4 years ago. The pain I feel knowing that Epic Games is destroying this game and not just the game, my beautiful memories with my brother is unforgivable. I really hope another industry saves the game and the community.
I NEVER traded a single item so removal of trading was never big deal for me. I love Rocket League because you can get in games within 15 seconds and the competition is fierce! I don't feel like the game is dying, but I would love to see an Unreal Engine revamp with high quality graphics.
I do really enjoy the game, but I'm also not amazing at the game and I'm still trying to get better. But I doo feel that it's not amazing as it used to be based off what some of my friends gave said.
I literally just started playing for the first time January and I love it. Didn’t know any of this and I hope I get to see how ppl first experienced this games. Sounds great
It's an amazing game. One of a kind. Skill gap is massive, but that's what makes it so intriguing. I'm really just hoping epic sell the rights to it instead of killing it off, and whoever they sell to has a passion to keep the game alive. Would be an absolute damn shame if it was to die off.
That’s crazy that they removed trading. I haven’t played in forever but I have soooo many items that I always planned on trading for credits when/if a cool car like the cyber truck comes out. Exactly what I did for the lambo back in 2021
My only other idea as to why they did this besides what musty said is so people buy credits for the item shop instead of trading items they already own
idky im here i just play fortnite, but i see the impact fortnite has on epic’s other games. Epic has spent too much time on simply just fortnite to let their other amazing games just like rocket league die out. They gotta spread their time more out instead of just fortnite
If people want something to change, you gotta do something that somewhat hurts them, like stop buying any items for weeks or months. That has to be pushed by every creator tho
I had left rocket league not short after the inroduction of blueprints and removal of crates. Although crates were fun i understand the gamling infliction it had. Non the less i returned month ago and although i enjoy playing...it isnt the same. And i have like 7 heatwaves bruh im so sad. Hopefully this message will be the 1st step back in the right direction
New Game Mode Idea: Dodge ball, if a ball hits you you evaporate until your teammate catches it with spikes and then you come back in. The ball itself will bounce back and forth like heat seeker
major respect to you musty. I never truly played rocket league. I started in 2016 and played very casually and honestly, people watch you for your personality. I would love to see you break off and play other games. Musty playing siege would be awesome. Although there is a huge skill ceiling it would still be awesome. Also, could play indie games to stop supporting these corporate companies. Helldivers 2, Palworld, enshrouded and so many more to come out this year.
used to love trading and they took it out honestly upsetting I stopped trading but that doesn't matter i don't see why they have took it out trading is its own community in rocket leuge
wanted to make this video not to purely bash Epic Games, but to voice out a lot of concerns from the community that I've seen these last few months in hopes for a better future. looks like they actually came out with a solid update yesterday so I'm hoping for some shift that can really push Rocket League in the direction of it's potential. 2024 is the year that likely makes or breaks Rocket League
epic games annd rocket leugue just isnt what it used to be.
am so scared that all that grinding that i did is for nothin i am really trying to go pro,rn am 12yo and ssl
this makes me so sad man.
It's just to boring now
They scuffed up rl for sure
I think the only big thing that epic games added was new esports team decals but that’s it so this video is definitely relatable ❤😢
"they see us as like customers, not players" musty been too real lately
That hit me really hard too, especially when you see the prices of items in the shop, 2000 credits for a black market decal that looks like sht and also was like 400 credits in rl insider, it seems like rocket league is solwly turning into Venezuela
That's America too. We're not humans, we are consumers. We're not people, we're customers.
It is actually true. If you look at the prices of the item shop it seems like they see us players as customers. And if you would compare the prices of items we had for them when trading was still here you clearly can see that epic games just wants money, money and money. But to be honest this is not the first time where they only want money...
But that's true. Every game that becomes "live service" is like that. Show me a game with a battle pass that has fair monetization and company cares about the game or people playing it?
They are even failing at that? I'm not going to spend any money if I'm not even playing the game anymore
4:13 - "It's just so... like braindead"
Pretty much sums it all up from Epic
Here before 1k likes
What else can you say, right? That's just the way it is, and has been for a while now.
Coconut :D
Always has been
Epic games is certainly … something
What’s wild is the communication. I think we can all handle news about layoffs, dropping casters, lack of updates and why, if Epic just talks to us. They’ve dropped bombs on the community with no warning and we have received no good news in return. For any woman out there, this is what getting kicked in the balls feels like
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Cell you and other content creators are doing really well finding content keep going I really understand how it can be hard but if more of u like sunless temporarily quit we will have nothing 😭
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@@jennyromero513first of all nb gives af and second of all you were literally 3rd so you still got it wrong
Don’t worry, everyone here knows what getting hit in the balls is like
Playing since release...something changed a few seasons ago, matching making wasnt consistent, playing people with wildly different skill levels in ranked. It just feels off, to many little changes, in the background, that just dont make it as fun as it used to be. So sad, ive not played for over a month now
That's just the playerbase falling off a cliff
@@feral_degenno it’s not. Rocket League has been infamous for horrible matchmaking since Epic Games bought them off. Massive coincidence, by the way.
@@karterguy06 not long after it went free to play I imagine changed the players as well
Exactly, it’s all the little updates they are doing that’s ruining the game. Yet people are constantly complaint for more updates… while us old players just want them to leave the damn game alone…
A WHOLE month?!?!? 🤣🤣🤣
its sad to see a game you love get ruined by a company full of greed
thankfully it's still not the worst imagine if it was owned by ea lol
$5 to play tournaments💀@@playstation7002
@@playstation7002 honestly, I'd perfer EA over epic atp...
If they were good at being greedy they'd protect a profitable asset like Rocket League. Rocket League hasn't been around so long because it lost money, lol. It's a real shame Psyionix let go of their game, I don't know the details of the sale but they could have protected their employees and potentially made more money holding onto the game.
@@ratmcratty1808 psyonix still has a large say in major updates such as the idea to remove trading that still had to go through psyonix
Trading removal was the end of it for me. I have 4000+ hours in the game.. I am flabbergasted a company can fuck up a game so quick. Never will I touch that field again. As someone who has played since August of 2015... absolutely horrible company.
same man. It was just so blatantly obvious that it was a sign of the shitshow to come, so i basically quit right then and there. I wish I didn’t have to, but if the game is gonna be killed anyway, why cling to it. Why give a shit or try to get good if it’s just gonna fade into obscurity in the next few years.
are you surprised??? big companies want more money. As soon as something's not profitable they get rid of it
i'm honestly hoping they just sell the franchise to a company that cares, but that's wishful thinking
@@TheGlovener1985 Thats what happened with rust for me, the OTV shit into recoil changes, 3k hours pre 2018 just poof
same, I was willing to play it until they removed trading. And then seeing the Endo (worth > 1 dollar) in the fortnite shop for 15 dollars is insane
i played so much in 2020 - 2023 summer, rl was my way of chilling aftr a long day, its sad to see this route taking effect hopefully someone will listen, someone from the team behind it will take into account issues.
Real shit bro. Real shit. It’s painful.
On the upside, this is showing us all, young and old, how destructive corporate greed is.
no what it showing us is the failure of the consumer, to many of us bought into this fairy tail of battlepasses and microtransactions and lost sight of what was actually important. The consumer is to blame for allowing all of this to happen in the first place. When the player base didn't rebel as epic stole the game you loved with an evil grin as they took steps to ban players with the balls to talk shit back to the toxic 10 yearolds of the worst era in gaming history. speak with your wallet it's the only thing triple A devs understand.... the game can be shit nowadays as long as it's just addicting enough to keep anyone with deep enough pockets to support it through a legendary cape for only a small 100$..... people need to wake up and stop spending money on Games as a Service..... if you wanted to make the BIGGEST company in history right now all you would have to do is make a game and let the community mod it to shit for free with a paid mod section that you take 5% of.... there wouldn't be another gaming company that could even stand up to you as they all have taken the power of creation away from the community except the few outliers.
@@TheVoidxi Everything wrong with the world today can be tied back to corporate greed. This one situation isn't special. Fuck Epic, and fuck all the corporations that put shareholders above employees and customers. So pretty much fuck all corporations lol
@@Wheelman2004 all im pointing out is that corporations aren't the sole reason. As a consumer when you interact with anti consumer based policies and do not speak with your dollars, you are giving it the ok to proceed and grow in that direction. Unfortunately monopolies have been created under the guise of competition while everyone "competing" against each other has the same share holders in power.....
@@TheVoidxi Voting with your dollar is a myth. Companies will do whatever the fuck they want, and there's no amount of 'voting with your dollar' that can stop it.
This is not a 'consumer' issue. We are their player base. They are failing to provide us with basic ass shit, and the game is suffering because of it. But they don't care. They're just continuing to do the same lame ass shit.
@@elvin3162 so you ass the player base can make a choice.... stop giving them money for the useless shit or it will keep coming... this is absolutely a failure of the consumer as well as greedy devs. but make no mistake sir companies only look at the Profit from these "shitty consumables" and if they are profitable they will never be gone.
Appreciate the shout out, Musty.
I did really care about the game. All of us did.
This community gave me some of the best experiences of my life. I'll be forever grateful to everyone for welcoming me as one of your community managers.
Despite everything happening right now, there isn't a day that goes by where I don't wish I could still be there doing my best to support you all.
Take care 👋
love you ted
Much love man
Loved you man
NO WAY TED ILY
Community is terrible and you can thank these youtubers for that
Gate keeping the lan location is crazy 😭
By now I wouldn't be surprised if there was no location yet and they'll book the venue once they see how many sign up...
🤫
Do they even have event coming up? At this point it could still get canceled week prior 🤷♂️
@@Janz_u Its in copenhagen, denmark, same days and same city where a big blast-hosted csgo tournament already takes place
My guess is that in the next few years Rocket league will become an alternate mode in fortnite just like fall guys probably will as well like racing rn is and no longer be a stand alone thing, and these slow times are the inbetween time before they fuse the game to fortnite
Real
Tencent games type shit
it sucks seeing smth i hate ruin smth i love
this game just needs a reboot. I could raise this game better than Epic can. Fortnite is a spreading disease. It can and WILL kill other games within the snap of two fingers.
(Edit) sry for the war in the comments lol
bro you could raise the game better if you just did nothing
its a fact fortnite is becoming a hub to play every single game. Wouldn't be surprised if rocket league goes offline and becomes a game within fortnite.
my friend used to love to play rocket league and would play it every day but now with all that rl has done he said it was now boring and went to play fortnite:(
@bobbydeclown8430 I hope not.
Epic can kill RL with the snap of a finger, I don't think its fair to blame RL's downfall on Fortnite. Both games could succeed, but that's up to the owners.
I am just so devastated that a corporation can do something like this. For me, I used to play this when I was kid. I have had so many good memories and moments in this game. I feel bad for all of the content creators, the pros, anyone involved with Rocket League, because they have put their blood, sweat, and tears in making this a great game and Epic Games just doesn't give anything back. I hope Epic Games revamps Rocket League. Love you Musty keep it up man!
Same for everything,
Yes, the whole reason for me even getting a PC was to get better, but now I’ve mostly stopped playing due to all these changes
Them removing trading was possibly the worst mistake ever in rocket league..
Nope. This wasn't a mistake. They probably needed to stop trading to close the window on player's items/accounts from being accessed through whatever ways in are left open BECAUSE of that crossover between RL and Rocket Racing. So, have trading and potentially have your account hacked/lose your items/account or don't have trading and retain what you own. Sucks, but that's it since they most likely wouldn't even know where to look when it comes to backdoors into accounts, especially for this game they'd prefer to have in working order ASAP for as long as possible without having to do any upkeep.
@@JUNK_ZONEwell that is probobly true but I'm pretty sure people would rather have trading in rocket league than have there rocket league items in rocket racing.
@@JUNK_ZONEnot a single person cares about Fortnite and rocket racing
@@CleanTrimmerObviously not true. But, I get your point lol.
@JUNKO____ why not just get rid of rr? Or remove the compatability
There was a time in my past where I was extremely down and my head was full of dark thoughts. Rocket League was an outlet for me during this period, I sunk in over 300 hours into this game - more than any game (I'm not much of a gamer). This is when I discovered many of the RL pros and creators like musty, and would religiously watch them on RUclips and twitch. I even followed all pro events regularly. Thinking back, all of this was a big blur in my memory because of the depression I was going through at the time but this video helped me remember the good parts of those times, when I'd just get lost in RL for hours and sometimes even meet some cool people through the game.
This game has a special place in my heart and I hope Epic games really gets their shit together and undoes their mistakes. Pains me to see this game dying because of damn fortnite, jeez. I just went back to check in on all of the RL creators I used to watch and it's safe to say none of them are doing good in terms of views. Rocket League needs a resurgence and I hope that happens before it dies down beyond the point of no return.
In 2020 i was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, we all know what 2020 was. Rl was a god send for me. thankfully i beat it But even after 10k hours this game is going downhill after Epic took over.
congrats, research messiah 2030 brother. with love@@solomongambel7068
@@solomongambel7068 damn god said "This world is unforgiving, you will go through many hardships" and this dude said "Nah, I'd win"
@@barritoothyhow in the fuck do you beat stage one cancer did u go in and actually throw hands dawg?
Stage 4*
I’ve been saying for years. Rocket league has the potential to be one of the biggest eSports in the scene. If it’s done correctly, it could change eSports as a whole. So sad to see it being left unmanaged basically
Ikr? I mean imo its like the most accessible esport for casuals. Basically soccer with cars. This esports should have become top 3 most popular esports but these people dont care.
Its the only true esport.
Hardest game I have ever played.
@@TheFilthy5iftyslow there with the fanboying, it could be the biggest but not the only one chill
@@kivori3438it’s the only esport that feels like an actual sport. I think that’s what he’s getting at. Which is 100% true
@@TheFilthy5ifty well you havent played many games either if thats the hardest one to you. Hell I have 11k hours on cs, plus a fuck ton more on r6, rust, comp cod back in the day etc, EVEN THEN ill say LoL is 10x harder than rocket league lol. Ive put like 3k hours into league still plat, 1900 hours in RL peaked gc2.
I don't think I've ever seen a game fall off in popularity and hype as fast as rocket league has recently. Epic is deliberately killing the game and something needs to be done to get their hands off of it
i really hope they sell it to a publisher that will do it justice, but that's honestly wishful thinking
Oh come on. People are crying that the game is dead for years.
@@slovnicurling9808 to you cause you don't play it. like gtas been dead to me for years, but somehow it's just as popular as ever
Musty to the rescue! 2023 RLCS World Championships was the first my brother and I ever watched from home. We were insanely inspired by the excitement, community, and talented pros. Then we wondered why there was no Fall Major a few months later (eventually realizing this was abnormal for RL). Later in November, I made my first trades and got some awesome, rare items just because I knew it was ending. Now, I wish I traded much more while it existed. The past few weeks of RLCS have been exciting in 2024, but it won't continue if they defund pro play. Squishy retiring is just the tip of the iceberg. I hope they make some changes.
Unrelated: I wish people gave Radosin and Alpha54 more credit for winning worlds...Zen didn't do it alone 👀
I never really got into trading either until I saw some really cool decals and was like "yo I want that" and so I actually dumped some money into that, and I love the items, but I never had the chance to get the full set like I wanted, all because of them taking trading away. I can't even get the items through the drops at all because of how many items are in the game. giant L from "Epic" Games.
@@ThatOneGuyEmblem yeah, I miss trading already. Plus, I don’t think you can get rocket pass items or any limited items via drops or the item shop. I never got Radosin’s decal 🙁 (think it’s called filiformer).
mine was in season 7 it is quite exciting
damn bro. musty my heart goes out to you and all of these other amazing content creators. this gives me so much respect for y’all; knowing the hard work and effort it takes just to try and dig for something new- to find a new diamond in the rough to guide your content, it kills my heart for this game that i love.
it’s truly a sad thing to see- monopolies like epic games that come in and get rid of the passion; they fire the talented and creative self-reliant workers just to take a more utilitarian approach. it becomes a machine. we don’t need a machine. this game was made by people. talented people with dreams and creativity.
i wish i was older and smart enough to know if epic games is even doing what’s best for their company or just running it into the gutter.
anyways ig i’m just trying to say i’m proud of you and the other content creators. y’all have done all you can and shared yourselves with us. your amazing ideas and creativity are so greatly loved by the community and appreciated. please don’t forget that.
unfortunately it just sucks man. but we’re all in the same boat together. i don’t want any of you to lose your innovative spirits or creativity, because y’all are so much better than to willingly offer them to a closed ear.
god bless y’all, i love you guys 🫶🔥❤️
research messiah 2030 part 1 here on youtube, god bless you!!
Taking away drop shot was annoying huge killer for me. There are hoops mains and drop shot mains. Imagine your main game mode over the past 4 years just up and goes away. It sucks. I haven’t played since.
ok i haven't been playing this game for over 3 years now but they got rid of dropshot??? like perma????? nah wtf
pretty sure it'll switch out every season.
I was bummed too. I had a lot of fun with that tbh
@@albertpinestein9977no. They just have no comp game mode for it, only for a SEASON tho, but u can still play casual
haven't seen dropshot in casual since the start of the season@@Khanismechy
They ABSOLUTELY need to bring back trading!!!
Facts
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The sad thing is the market is dead so they won’t
@@FahrzFNyeah, they killed it. But hopefully, if enough people complain, we can get it back. We’ll think about market later.
For real dude
I sent an email to epic games about rocket league and problems with the game and they responded with a form letter about how they are always trying to improve fortnite. That's how much they care about you.
🤣
hahahahah
Cry them a river, buddy. Womp womp. 😂😂😂😂
If that's real, Then damn...
I once tried to report a racist player directly through Rocket League support and they responded with a link that would "help me with that matter"
I clicked the link and it led me to a guide on their website showing how to report players in *_Fortnite_*
i came back to rocket league this year but i didnt know what was going on with it or anything and i was confused on why i couldnt trade until i saw this video. I grew up with rocket league and now its just sad to see it die.
Same, I grew up with roll it was the first device I used, and seeing it die with no trading, (didn’t get to try it) can’t play with guests, and no more custom matches
Im on my universitys rocket league team and whats happening with rocket league is really worrying, ive spent so much time as well as other players harnessing our skills to get better at this game we love so much and they are just ruining it, taking away key features and game modes that negatively affect your average player as well as ruining the rlcs scene which is eliminating pros and castors. Its hard to put so much time into a game you love when you can't help but feel like the game is just slowly disappearing and will eventually be gone, i feel as if squishy retiring as well as lobby's being harder and harder to find sums it all up pretty well. Great video musty I really hope this gets someone's attention.
Wow that’s cool your school has a rocket league team.
best of luck with it, also that name is crazy youre walkin a fine line there kid but i respect it.
lobbies getting harder is an inevitability. Its RL, the game that everyone keeps saying has no skill ceiling
@@edgeribble he said lobbies getting harder to find
@woeyjonkers mb
It’s so frustrating because like you said, all of our gripes and concerns feel like they are just being cast out into the void with no answers or explanations. We are sat here watching our game die slowly, and it’s more than just a great game on the line, it’s entire careers, thousands of hours of work, ‘wasted’ childhoods grinding to be the best and so much more. And I’m sure psyonix has to just feel sick seeing what’s happened to their darling. I don’t hold them accountable for anything because this truly feels like epic strong arming them to exercise their will and squeeze the community of every last dollar they can get.
Mertzy is absolutely right with this tweet. 13:44 Super sad but its the truth and we have to accept it. Epic games is ruining many peoples lives and my childhood for money.
epic games cant ruin anybodys lives. its their game
you a whole disgrace to the nba@@jamesharden9
Fr I'm tryna get real good at the game and at this point the games gonna be dead before I even get the chance to Try
@@azza7050 lol
i miss dropshot :( . i doubt anyone else does, as when it gets late in my timezone DS matches would start to take forever to queue, but man do i miss that mode. i could play it for hours on end and it really felt like i learned a lot of fundamentals through that mode. i hit low diamond in 2s and 3s (im not good by any metric other than comparing to casual players maybe), and i dont think i ever even broke out of plat in dropshot, but GOD was it fun. i dont really care for anything else in the game, i would play 2s ranked and get a rank every season just to do it and see where i placed, but by far i played dropshot almost exclusively. havent been on pretty much since it was removed.
maybe its not dropshot for everyone, but i hear similar sentiments from friends for other things they enjoyed.
I don't know if there was temporarily no drposhot but the mode is still in the game even in ranked. Didn't even registered it wasn't in the game (if it wasn't)
@@slovnicurling9808 Every other season Drop Shot and Snow Day swap out in the competitive list. This season (Season 14) has Drop Shot, next season will have Snow Day.
There is no reason for them to do this. It just makes people upset every 3 months when a mode they actually like is taken out for no apparent reason...
Don't worry dropshot will be it's own mobile game lol.
Yesterday I had to wait 7 minutes to get into a C1 2s lobby
I have never had that problem before
Rocket league is changing into something unrecognisable
@@SlimyBonesJones mine was like 3 days in c3 2s
@@danielpritzl9008 mine was 2 weeks in gc1 2s
On mornings q time in gc3 rumble are 1hour+ so i just dont play at morning
I queued for like, 192 hours for GC2 2s, imagine my GC1 div3 3s.
@SlimyBonesJones That’s not even funny.
I made it into the video haha 1:04 my goat, was nice to meet you in person!
The ranking system and lack of accountability for throwing competitive matches has left me disinterested in the game. Rarely play anymore.
Same. Haven’t played in almost half a year
5 minutes and they’re back 😂
what just because of the ranking system, really? Who cares about that, the game is still good. You can still have a blast playing it. Problem mainly is that epic I guess aren't seeing much profit with it and will happily kill off the game if it saves them money on resources. They want little effort on these games and massive profits, unfortunately rocket league doesn't bring them that. Which is a damn shame, because the core of the game is unmatched. Gonna miss rl when it's gone
came back to rl after 2 years, got back to champ, lost 2 games in a row because of people throwing on purpose to boost their friends, left again
came back after a few months to play 4 games. In 3/4 one opponents threw the game and in the other game my teammate joined for 30 sec and left i got to a score of 2 - 2 and he joins back misses a shot and leaves.
I totally agree with everything you said. I stopped playing RL after they announced they were getting rid of trading even though I have never traded but I saw a ton of people were not happy with it so I didn't want to support a game that didn't listen to its players. It sounds like it's gotten a lot worse since I stopped paying attention and left at a good time. I know you make a living off the game and I know this affects you more than people like me. I hope everything is going well for you.
Some friends of mine bought credits just for trading. They refuse to buy anything now. I rarely traded (just with friends if one of us had something the other wanted to use) but after that announcement, I refuse to buy anything from them ever again. So they've lost at least 4 people from that decision. Wish more would have followed suit.
Its sad tho cuz the prime time of rl was so good
I was trash 🗑️ but it was sooo good
@@placefeature5329if you’re talking about 2020, I was low to mid grand champion
creative mode is the only thing I have been asking and waiting for years now. Workshop maps gave me the most fun I had in rocket league
Ich glaube traden hat dir noch mehr Spaß gemacht 😂😊
@@volleroffl4509 ja da hat schon einige zeit drin gesteckt aber mit kollegen custom maps einfach geil, weils meistens egal is, welchen rang man hat
i think that's where they could make their money, but maybe they still don't see it being profitable
Used to play more back in the day but not much anymore. Really sad to see that game die like this as I have a long history with it being an EST. 2016 player.
Gotta rep the EST 2016 tag in game😂 ik I do
@@Juju-co8ys imagine not having the est 2015 lolol
@@Juju-co8ys yup, me too
It’s not dead a lot of people still play it
@@inmysystem007 that’s true but I’ve been having longer que times. Worse matchmaking, and it honestly just doesn’t feel the same. I’m playing just cuz I love the game, I no longer care about getting better yk
Man, I'm sad I missed all the years, I love League and have been trying to get better . Started about 10 months ago
The gameplay is still the same. If you like playing it none of the updates effect you until there are no players left.
Thank you for speaking up about this. We need every single rocket league content creator to speak up about this
I feel like Epic is killing it 😢
on purpose too
Fortnite has the infinity stones.
No shit 💀
Nahhh really??
Epic execs reading this: Ayy guys we're killing it! 🥳
I started playing is early 2017, really became passionate about it in late 2018 and it became my main game. I uninstalled it just the other day bc I just don’t enjoy it anymore and it was honestly sad and hard to do.
I feel you dude. 2016-2022 with only a handful of breaks about a month or two long. Just focusing on aim training for mouse control and FPS games, because it’ll take a lot for that entire genre to die. It’ll also take a lot for the mouse to be replaced entirely 😂 it’s also fun, which is important
seeing this 7 months later with basically no changes hurts
I'm only 16 but I've been watching people play this game since 2015. I watched this game grow so much and I feel like I grew up with this game. whenever I got tired of everything else, I can't imagine this game dying. it hasn't changed much gameplay wise but I could always just have fun on rocket league every now and then. the game never died after all this time. I just regret not playing even more now. it's not even as fun as it was pre 2020. I never thought it was going to end up with the game feeling stale, the microtransactions feeling worse than 2016 crates, and now everyone I watched for years has stopped loving the game too. 2015. Literally half of my life has been filled with 2k+ hours of rocket league and probably another thousand hours watching rocket league content and it feels like yesterday neatmike was making videos about rocket league rage and jonsandman was making videos with woofless. I just think it's fascinating how much the game has fallen off with it's own community. ik I'm just a player who is barely above the average casual player in skill (gc peak once before ssl came out), but even people who put 10k+ hours can't find a reason to keep playing and it's just sad to see
I am 16 and this is EXACTLY like me too
same bro
You've been watching people play rocket league since you were 7 years old?
@@ProgramTheEpsilon watching it since 2015, playing since summer of 2016 when I finally got an xbox one
@@purplefoir971 that wasn’t my question
broooooooo, the fact that musty just summed up everyones concerns and anger in one video and, also that as the biggest continent creator for rocket league stepped up to epic like this; goes to show how good of a human being he is and how he didn't sell out and cut deals with epic like tenacity did and stayed quiet about all this. This is why I watch your content and a select few others instead of people like tenacity. mad respect musty.
whats that about tenacity?
@@felixghiringhelli5852 he ran a couple epic ads right after he expressed his discontent with RL. Pretty much they bought him off to stay quiet cuz of his influence
Tenacity was a joke even before that.
@@YTisGayfacts dude 😂 how anyone couldn’t tell from his demeanor is wild to me
Yo fuck tenacity i got in 2s game with him once and then i went to his stream and he was talking shit about me to his viewers. Such a loser.
Very well put together video! Huge respect for talking about this from your perspective
The problem with Rocket Racing isn't that it's bad, it's that the player base asked for a 'racing' game mode for years and this is what they give us. It's a poor attempt to release a new game, which is already dead, and one that shares literally nothing with Rocket League.
Everything we as players were afraid for when it was announced that Epic will take over rocket league has happened and even more. A game I used to love thrown in the bin by Epic they don't care and its sad to see a game like this slowly going down.
Petition to bring back Rocket League trading:
We need to do this!!!
fok trading. Petition Rocket league itself. If we all just stop playing the that'll actually hurt rocket league way more than just commenting on their posts. I havent played in months and neither have my friends.
@@Marcelo-ff6is point is, that way you really hurt the game, and not just the company. As Musty said in the video, “hate the company, not the game”. We need to make petitions and gather up so many opinions that they cannot be ignored anymore, and that obviously doesn’t only include trading.
@@philipparkhipov9808 clearly petitions don’t work. Playing the games they have helps them, not playing the games hurts them
Everybody needs to just get rid of fortnite who plays rocket league. Obviously it their money maker, and in order for them to care money needs to be subtracted where it hurts.
Iv'e been playing RL since 2016, and we all knew it was going to go downhill once Epic bought Psyonix, but we didn't think it would be this bad. Sucks to see the game we all love get ruined by corporate greed like this.
Same. Tbh I just want fucking practice maps on PS5.
I feel you bro. My friends and I quit when they dropped trading, but it was just the final straw after the slow rotting away of the game. Sell the game Epic!
If you quit RL when they dropped trading, hold this L😂
@@NIUpiguy ...isn't trading like a whole community? Whats wrong with not wanting to play a game after a major part is ruined for you?
@@froggotheboi You’re right, let me rephrase that.
If you played, or stopped playing, RL only because of trading, hold this L.
please SThU lil bro
@@NIUpiguy
@@NIUpiguy Clearly you havent played this game in a long time so you dont know how it feels. Get out of here.
I haven’t played in 3-4 years, it was an awesome game to play with friends. I enjoyed the trading aspect to share different stuff with friends and they made me enjoy watching competitive on twitch to receive rewards in game. Sad to see this is what it has come to. It is an older game now for sure and is evident from this video that they are pushing it to the side..., despite there being so much potential still.
I used to play back in 2019 and early 2020 and I joined back now, and unironically nothing has really changed, except for the fact that it’s more p2w bruh
And don't forget for this season they took Dropshop out of all queues for a while, but kept it in tournaments: you could play a tourney for a mode you couldn't actually queue for otherwise, for weeks and weeks and weeks. I'm not a DS main myself, but I feel bad for those who are. I have tons of time in the game and love it, but I play it less and less now. I thought Rocket Racing was going to be in Rocket League-- I was grinding the monaco-style track in Rax's Rocket Park map, grinding down lap times and BAM! RRacing was in Fortnite. That killed the drive for me. I play FN for FN, not for RL. And then there's all the smurfs. Rainbow 6 just *introduced* trading after 8 years and that community is stoked. It's just depressing whenever I think about grinding in RL for any reason at all.
My passion has dwindled, and Epic has done nothing to rekindle it.
personally i loved dropshot, and trading, so ive been double fucked by epic 😔
@@OGsploorp Yea I was a snowday main forever and ever, so not looking forward to next season as far as that goes -_-
I used to play back in the days of 2016-2020, but now every few weeks a few matches and I am very sad about this shift. When Epic Games bought Psyonix, I already knew this would inevitably be the outcome... 💔
Someone with a loud voice needed to say it and you did it perfectly.. thanks man hope this reaches the right audience
RL: You don’t want just cars huh, here’s a car with a DECAL
This reminds me of when one of my favorite games (Echo vr) got deleted. It shows that even though the game was small, the shutdown could've been avoided. This also shows that the same thing can happen with big games as well.
I miss this game. It used to be so amazing and I have spent more than 13,000+ hours in this game and then one day I just stopped and I was never able to get back into it. I love this game so much but it needs to get better.
cap
10:46 and they do my frikin mechanic had me lmao😂
whatever they did to the rank system is killing the game for me. ive been steady champ 2 for the past 2 seasons now im diamond 2 and my teammates seem plat while the opponents seem champ passing and flip resetting. its basically win one lose 4 now
same here, my tm8 can barely go for a fly
@@marlondlgs no one who actually plays this game says "go for a fly" haha
Gc1 in diamond 3 and I’ve uninstalled the shit game on all my pcs
@@nicka2824skill issue tbh
You too? It's like an impossible barrier. Bro I legit face Grand Champ title smurfs in one game then the next I got a Gold 3 and a Plat 2.. Make it make sense.
I took a month off after 8 years of playing cause I was just sick of it and mad at epic. Not only got rid of trading but one of my favorite game modes drop shot is either gone or on rotation. Like wtf were they thinking
Dude, I miss drop shot too. I loved it.
Really miss dropshot too. Perfect mode to just relax and play.
drop shot is trash
@@rogerbee1234567 Sike you’ll get better at it one day don’t worry
@@Stephen-vl2ky I saw it’s back in casual playlist yesterday 🙏
Honestly the removal of trading was a final straw for me... They literally just deleted a huge part of the community just so they can profit more
thats true
thats true
in 2017 i started this game and was a casual, i would just play for fun. Then my friend introduced me into trading and i loved it and when covid hit i took a break. and i got back on and i said to my friend yoooo wanna trade and then he broke the news that trading is gone and note that my account got deleted randomly (apparently because i didn't play enough) which made me mad when i had to make a new account with nothing on it.
nice one epic.
I fucking hate that company
I've been at rocket league since 2020, and this shit hurts man. I can't even imagine how it feels for the people getting laid off or the pros.
I dreamt of being a pro rocket league player, but this shit makes it difficult to have hope for the future.
What rank are you?
playing 7 years, spend 6000 hours in this trash, 1820 peak. Sad
@@robdog979 I **was** high champ 3, about to break through into gc, but because I took a month break and this is the shit I came back to? I really can't find the will to get back into the game.
@@AeroDKTthe same happened to me man, but I've been playing since early 2016, tho I got good last year, I was 50 points away from being GC but I quit because I got bored of it and now I'm barely champ jajaj
@@frana1437 yeah, the tragic fall of being a rocket league player lmao
Over summer, I played this game so much with my friends and had a blast. But once September rolled around, when Epic started to really kill this game by removing trading, this game really just became not fun to me. My teammate who had been grinding for a year to hit champ 1 quit, I started playing less and less, only playing an hour or two a week and only with my friends, whereas I used to play in free play for 5 hours straight on a Saturday morning with a smile the whole time.
Obviously over time you will not want to play as often
@@scary5455You’ve never played rocket league. You don’t understand, it just wasn’t the same after epic bought it. They only care about money, they don’t even care about the players. It’s evidenced in their actions: removing trading so people have to buy from the item shop, not catering to any of the communities requests, lowering the prize pool for RLCS.. it’s sad. Game had so much potential.
@@scary5455People stayed wit it consistently until epic started doing all this bs
@@scary5455nah rocket league is competitive. Dedicated players want to get better and better but when you can’t see a future for the game it starts feeling like a waste of time and sucks all your motivation away.
I've played fallout 4, witcher 3, skyrim, all multiple times. Time has nothing to do with the longevity of a game, let alone and ONLINE game that can constantly be updated with cool new things. WHat a stupid way to justify what the corp did to kill this game@@scary5455
What the hell, man i never subscribed to musty, i watched him on and off for like 5 years, but this got recommended and mans GREW on youtube holy mustycow. What did he do show his winky to the youtube founders or something haha
This is so true, we need Psyonix back in control, if you played before free to play you know exactly what i'm talking about. This is why my nightmare was Epic Games buying RL and making it so Fortnite - like... At this point it's not even fortnite like, so many people quit genuinely because it's so easy to tell that Epic dosen't give jackshit about Rocket League, they ruined the fanbase, trading community, and the playerbase, soon RLCS is gonna be empty..
I thought Epic taking over was a bad move from the getgo, but never expected it to be as bad as it's become
Ive left the game after the removal of trading, sadly things have just gotten worse, cant say I didn’t expect it, but it is still sad to see, thank you for the video musty, glad to see all the frustrations collected in a video.
I’ve been a player since the beginning as well (off and on) and it’s a game I’ve grown to play with my father, who plays almost no other game but RL. (Neither of us are great, but it’s some of the best fun I have) He’s a fan of you and the pros as well, and it’s been so disappointing to see the game become so stale, and to see some great pros and casters leave. I hope there is more to come for RL 😞
Me too man
i think it was on a stale phase for awhile but removing trading put the nail in the coffin, not buying another battle pass until it's back or epic sells the company. Probably wont happen*
As an ex Esports halo player, the worst this for any games is having a low age range. For me I now have zero physical social life, heavily failed in school and for what just to be called a halo tournament winner. The age range should be for after you finish school grades aren't really that important but they allow you to go to college and university
and it was 343 I assume, not even real Halo😢
Back during Halo2, it wasn't even "esports" (a cringe name). It was "professional gaming". We were more akin to professionals than pretending to be athletes. Pretending pro gamers are athletes has always been a mistake
sad thing is nobody even knows who you are
Great points Musty. It's been heartbreaking for me as a long time fan watching the game break down behind the scenes but I still enjoy watching your videos just as much as ever. So at least people like you still exist. When I saw that Squishy was retiring, I genuinely started crying man. It's fucking Squishy...
Hopefully unreal engine 5 or something comes out. At this point I'm so done looking at all the decal and dlc news that I just automatically ignore it when RL tweets now. Let's see what happens in the future I guess.
I hate hearing people say " we need a roadmap." I didnt stop playing because there wasnt a roadmap, i stopped playing because everytime i open the game theres a feature removed or a new bug. I love playing rocket league still but im not going to spend my time grinding to get good at a game that is clearly on its way out
Mans making points here👆🏼👆🏼
Losing crates hurt, but losing trading completely killed my interest in the game. Trading for me was a game within the game
It's almost like they look directly at community feedback and are like "nah, that doesn't matter we like money"
Of course the game in its current state doesn't make much i imagine. And i guess they weren't receiving much profit, even before they made worse decisions for it. But at least in this state they can suck every last penny from it, before they kill it off
I had this game for so long but only actually got into when I got internet a few years ago. Peaked at grand champ and quit when they removed trading. I never even used trading but I already had a extreme hate for epicgames. It’s really sad, it’s probably the game I enjoyed the most to come home and play.
It’s so strange to me how few good games are out there. What a strange time
case in point, for the rlcs qualifiers my friends and I were queuing for a fun few matches, second round lower bracket we versed a team of rlcs regional champs. It's just gotten out of hand
Stopped playing cause f2p led to insanely high number of smurfs, or ppl straight duo boosting their friends on fresh epic accounts, and this still hasnt been addressed to this day as my friends say. On top of that, the recent mmr changes which dropped everyone in rank, suddenly now you're 2 ranks down but playing with the same people... for what? kill my expectations on getting gc? Just said nah i got better games to play.
Also, i used to trade a lot, now its gone, part of the community and my interest.
Used to play everyday at least 1-2 hours, nowadays i play 1-2 times a week when friends call to premade.
last time i played rocket league or even watched any content was around 5 years ago mainly being Kronovi and JonSandman. Seeing the state of the game now is absolutely mind boggling to me as still to this day the memories I have with rocket league have been so awesome. sad asf to see whats happened till now
you weren't even around the best times
@@ErnieZee are you gatekeeping "the best times" of rl?
@@ErnieZee started in the first month and stopped in 2018. Not sure about the best times lol
For me it is simple, trading removed had some impact on me but facing smurfs 3 ranks higher than me just as I am about to rank up, throwing away the hours I put in the game trying to get better. Epic making their game free is cool but they should have made some system against smurfs.
There is not much they can do about smurfs. Theres few things to make smurfing harder. First thing is that u have to lvl up to 10 to play comp and the second is giving new account extreme mmr boosts, so if u win even 9 out of 10 placement games its hard to not reach high champ 1.
They just did btw now all party members must be higher than lvl 20 to play comp which will take 2 days to get
@@Hany_RL_YT Wow really?🤣 Man, all of my smurfs are at least level 200+, they had more requierements to trade than to play
@@Wraikey if they are that high in level that means they played alot of games meaning that these are not smurfs anymore lol
@@Hany_RL_YT They still are tho, unless you say a "high level" account can't be a smurf. I could prove you wrong with GC Title Accounts in Gold ^^
The one thing about Rocket League is that there is no other game like it. Not even Epic can screw up the core mechanics of the game. If there is no competition, it will probably never fully "die."
Epic Games reading this comment: "Bet"
they can just shut down the servers if it's literally costing them more to run them.
Its already dead
Hope is lost Fortnite is king
I never traded but i miss opponents asking me in chat if i wanna trade, getting ignored by me and then thowing a fit lol
hopefully they actually get the message
pff yeah right
surely they'll get the message even though everyone in the community has directly replied to them and shared their negative feedback immediately and they read it
you guys dont understand. One thing is to get the message, another is to LISTEN to the message. Epic Games are not dumb. They get the message very well but they just want fortnite to grow.
@@somerandomchad469 i was being sarcastic
They’ won’t, most games don’t listen to their community anymore because every company has gone fully corporate and only cares about the item shop
bring dropshot back ffs
WE NEED DROPSHOT!!! No casual!
They took away loot boxes and that hurt.. but to take away trading too😢 I’ve gave at least 5 friends free stuff through trading and they loved it and were hooked.. it seems like it went downhill when epic took over.. idk I’ll always love it but damn they messed up.. Appreciate ya musty you the man🤙
Yeah this isn’t getting talked about enough. We went from paying 20$ for 20 items ($20 for 20 keys which opened 20 crates) to $20 for ONE item (black markets now cost 2k credits, or $20). If that’s not batshi* insane to you, then help me understand why
I don’t even play Rocket League anymore. I stopped a while back, but I’ve still enjoyed watching content creators like you because I genuinely enjoy your personality. If one day you move on, you’ll still have my viewership.
Rocket League is the only video game I played with my brother who passed away 4 years ago. The pain I feel knowing that Epic Games is destroying this game and not just the game, my beautiful memories with my brother is unforgivable. I really hope another industry saves the game and the community.
I NEVER traded a single item so removal of trading was never big deal for me. I love Rocket League because you can get in games within 15 seconds and the competition is fierce! I don't feel like the game is dying, but I would love to see an Unreal Engine revamp with high quality graphics.
I agree 100%
I do really enjoy the game, but I'm also not amazing at the game and I'm still trying to get better. But I doo feel that it's not amazing as it used to be based off what some of my friends gave said.
Not much changed. Besides the community and the shop trade, it’s still Rocket League and you can play its main modes.
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I literally just started playing for the first time January and I love it. Didn’t know any of this and I hope I get to see how ppl first experienced this games. Sounds great
It's an amazing game. One of a kind. Skill gap is massive, but that's what makes it so intriguing. I'm really just hoping epic sell the rights to it instead of killing it off, and whoever they sell to has a passion to keep the game alive. Would be an absolute damn shame if it was to die off.
That’s crazy that they removed trading. I haven’t played in forever but I have soooo many items that I always planned on trading for credits when/if a cool car like the cyber truck comes out. Exactly what I did for the lambo back in 2021
My only other idea as to why they did this besides what musty said is so people buy credits for the item shop instead of trading items they already own
Why'd bro say skibidi at 3:55 💀
impulse 💀😭
idky im here i just play fortnite, but i see the impact fortnite has on epic’s other games. Epic has spent too much time on simply just fortnite to let their other amazing games just like rocket league die out. They gotta spread their time more out instead of just fortnite
If people want something to change, you gotta do something that somewhat hurts them, like stop buying any items for weeks or months. That has to be pushed by every creator tho
That’s a double edged sword. Epic would more than likely say “welp game is dead let’s pull the plug”
my entire childhood was me and my bestfriend trading. thanks epic. you ruined my childhood and this game. i hope fortnite dies one day.
Ruined such a big part of rocket league and expected us to just get used to it.
lmao Fortnite will outlive us buddy, cope over it
@@Elion-c8t yeah I know
I had left rocket league not short after the inroduction of blueprints and removal of crates. Although crates were fun i understand the gamling infliction it had. Non the less i returned month ago and although i enjoy playing...it isnt the same. And i have like 7 heatwaves bruh im so sad. Hopefully this message will be the 1st step back in the right direction
Fun successful games going corporate seems to always happen at around the 7 - 8 year mark happened to my favourite same WoW as well
New Game Mode Idea: Dodge ball, if a ball hits you you evaporate until your teammate catches it with spikes and then you come back in. The ball itself will bounce back and forth like heat seeker
Video: This game went downhill
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major respect to you musty. I never truly played rocket league. I started in 2016 and played very casually and honestly, people watch you for your personality. I would love to see you break off and play other games. Musty playing siege would be awesome. Although there is a huge skill ceiling it would still be awesome. Also, could play indie games to stop supporting these corporate companies. Helldivers 2, Palworld, enshrouded and so many more to come out this year.
used to love trading and they took it out honestly upsetting I stopped trading but that doesn't matter i don't see why they have took it out trading is its own community in rocket leuge