Rocket League launched on Steam on the same day

• Posted by lbluesky lbluesky 2 June 2020 - Filed in Arts & Culture - #Rocket League Trading  - 39 views

  Psyonix has now earned more than $110 million in revenue from Rocket League, and it got there by giving away content for free.According to www.lolga.com a new report from Forbes, Psyonix had earned $70 million in revenue and sold 4 million units of its breakout hit Rocket League across PS4, PC and Xbox One. Now, those figures stand at $110 million in revenue and 5 million unit sales - a 57% and 25% increase respectively."Our numbers are actually going up, not down," Psyonix VP Jeremy Dunham told Forbes, "which is not very common for a game that's ten months old."

  The key thing to remember here is that the figures above do not include the downloads Rocket League received when it was given away for free through PlayStation Plus. Over the course of that month - the first the game had been available anywhere - around 5 million people downloaded and played it, creating a substantial and very enthusiastic audience on which to build.

  Rocket League Trading launched on Steam on the same day, July 7 2015, but it was not tied to a promotional giveaway. Despite PC gamers having to pay for the game, though, powerful word-of-mouth from its console players helped to drive more than 1 million sales at around $20 each before the end of August. According to SteamSpy's data, Rocket League now has around 3.3 million owners on Steam, where it has never been given away for free. Indeed, in terms of paid downloads, PC is the game's leading platform.