And sure, while removing the lootbox system sounds like a good PR move and great headline- the people who have been playing the game for 1000s of hours and had an understanding of the old system and the new system will tell you- the new system is and has been absolutely abysmal since it's introduction. Originally the game had a lootbox system but, at some point before the Epic sellout, that was stripped out. well- they just want to make more cosmetic car parts to sell to you in multiple roundabout ways- many of which are of dubious artistic direction. People want cool new stuff, big cool new game modes, new maps, more mutators and customization options for things that actually matter- the game and the way it plays- and Psyonix. It seems to me that there's always been a sort of disconnect from what people who like Rocket League want and what Psyonix wants to provide.
Sure, Psyonix may have sold themselves to Epic Games- and the title went Free to Play as an Epic Game Store exclusive, and has been delisted from Steam- and that's all pretty bad, certainly, but I believe, in reality, the game actually was on a pretty significant decline before that.
The general vibe I get is that, Rocket League is still fun- It's just kind of experienced a fall from grace, if that makes sense. I've watched multiple streamers, youtube creators, and most of all, one of my friends, Winter, play 1000s of hours of this game. You may see I only have just shy of 50 hours or so, and the reason for that is that I really spend most of my time with Rocket League as a viewer, not a player. Oddly, I don't actually play this game that much. Rocket League was, and to a more limited extent, still is, a pretty great game. Singer Dani Miller continues doing the most just by being her authentic vampire-toothed self, showing the world that gender presentation is forever free to be freaked. But with a couple of lucky breaks and a heaping bucket of talent, Surfbort caught the eye of Perry, who would go on to create a partnership with the band and produce their album “Keep on Truckin’”. It’s an eclectic community where pay-to-play is despised, and drummers are in short supply. The success of “Get The Party Started” off her sophomore album proved to the world that female empowerment was here to stay.įrom The Ché Café to the stages of Austin, Surfbort’s roots run deep in the DIY scene. At a time when pop-femininity meant looking, acting, and speaking a certain way, P!nk showed millions of young girls that the world had room for all kinds of women.
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