Rocket League launched again in 2015, nevertheless it’s nonetheless performing exceptionally effectively and only recently surged to new heights not seen in years, no less than when it comes to concurrent gamers.
Developer Psyonix announced that Rocket League reached greater than 900,000 concurrent gamers throughout platforms on Friday, January 23. “Right this moment has been a wild trip,” the studio mentioned of the achievement. Rocket League apparently surpassed 1 million concurrents over the weekend, and that is the best concurrent-player rely for the free-to-play sport in 5 years.
It’s not instantly clear what drove the current surge in Rocket League gamers. Individuals are pointing to streamer Jynxzi enjoying the sport lately, however there could possibly be any variety of components contributing to Rocket League’s reputation.
Tens of millions of individuals within the US confronted frigid temperatures and lots of snow this past weekend, and this might have contributed as effectively, as individuals opted to remain protected and heat inside.
Over on Reddit, persons are saying Rocket League “the sport I maintain coming again to” and is considerably of a “life-style” sport that folks get pleasure from returning to. Different persons are saying Rocket League is nice for individuals once they solely have 20 minutes to play, whereas others are praising Rocket League as a result of, even in spite of everything its success, there nonetheless aren’t many different video games prefer it.
Rocket League’s South Park collab is stay within the sport now, bringing toppers based mostly on Cartman, Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Butters to the soccer-with-cars sport.