
There's been a bit of commotion in the Rocket League community over the past 24 hours after it was revealed that the free-to-play version of the game won't require PlayStation Plus or Nintendo Switch Online to enjoy online multiplayer on those respective platforms, but players on Xbox won't be so fortunate.
In a news post on the official Rocket League website, Psyonix noted that the PlayStation and Nintendo services would "no longer be required", but didn't make any mention of Xbox Live Gold:
"PlayStation Plus on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch Online will no longer be required for online play on those platforms."
Of course, it's not the most surprising revelation considering that free-to-play games typically always require Xbox Live Gold on Xbox One, but it's nevertheless resulted in some disgruntlement.
It's been rumoured recently that Microsoft might be planning to get rid of Xbox Live Gold entirely at some point in the future, but whether that's true or not, it's unlikely to happen before Rocket League goes free-to-play, with Psyonix seemingly aiming for a late September/early October launch for the new version of the game.
How do you feel about Xbox Live Gold being required for free-to-play titles on Xbox? Let us know below.
[source rocketleague.com, via reddit.com]
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Tbh I think all online games should be free on every platform. Especially the free to play titles
I hate that Microsoft made paying for multiplayer a thing and everyone else rolled with it. Heck Sony's multiplayer was free until PS4. Nintendo's was free until Switch.
I remember when Netflix still required a Gold subscription to use the app. It's dumb.
Let free-to-play be "free-to-play"!
That being said, I don't play multi-player games (doesn't mean I agree with Microsoft's approach to it).
Not the brightest choice to make, here.
Being alone in making an anti-consumer practice is just asking for trouble. I'm sure @playstation_king remembers quite well the Sony cross-play fiasco, and how "the best place to play" ultimately had to bow down to requests...
@AlexSora89 They've been alone in that choice for a long while at this point, however, there's still that rumor that that may be changing soon.... Time will tell.
@AlexSora89 yeah I remember well, I'm all up for cross play tbh as it makes jt easier to find matches on game slime paladins and smite, it was sony thinking they would lose players to other consoles if they enabled cross play but it was too late in the gen that it didn't matter anyway
Just wish they would now down to the requests of removing the censorship from some games
I don't play online on consoles out of principle that they charge for it.
Playing the optimist here, but what if they didn't mention xbox gold because they know that paying to play online on xbox won't be a problem for much longer?
I'm with the others that still hold it against ms that they introduced charging for multiplayer at all. But the rumors still seem very credible that gold is actually going away, so this is likely a case where psyonix can't say anything because it's not official yet, and their game releases before the said change would go into effect anyway.
Pretty poor if it's completely free on every other platform
Thats just not right. It's a free to play game. As a current Xbox one player, i noticed that there is little amount of games that doesn't require gold to go online. something like destiny and destiny 2. But cmon Microsoft. if it's free to play then let it be free to play. this is making me want to switch to another platform. maybe Playstation. and I'm not speaking for myself. I'm speaking for the other enraged players as well. It's like this. if we can't pay, you just keep people's friends away. You may think "but everyone nowadays has a cellphone or maybe even a computer." WRONG! I have an Xbox friend on there that has no phone nor computer. and he's upset because he can't play games with his friends because he can't pay for Xbox live gold. all you care for is money and not your community. you'll run out of luck eventually and run out of money to produce more content. Let games keep their "Free To Play" title and allow non gold members to play too. otherwise you'll crash your company whole =w=
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