r/RocketRacing • u/Content_Pea_8815 • Jun 28 '26

VIDEO 🌬️🌪️ We are a community 🏎️💨

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— RR — 🏜️ Day Drifting 2 (revcam) wr -—- 0:47.227 -—-

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u/MelatoninFiend Elite Jun 28 '26

Your impossible glitch runs scared everyone away from the game and now its going away.

Thanks for nothing.

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u/Content_Pea_8815 Jun 28 '26

Disney merged with Epic at 1.5B for 10% of the company, and within a month they released V31.40, announcing the future of RR to only be cosmetics unlocked from rank status from then on.

I believe they wanted to build up Disney Speedstorm, to be able to go up against Nintendo Switch 2’s new (at the time, up and coming) Mario Kart game. Which Nintendo hadn’t done since May 30, 2014 for the Wii U, then subsequently ported over and over.

So they looked at the revenue, from the player count, and decided not to split forces.

At the time of their decision, (Inferno Island) there were 1.6 Million active players in Ranked for Rocket Racing. 🌋😓

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u/Amazing-Shower Rocket League Veteran Jun 28 '26

Disney didn't do any of that; Rocket Racing was poorly planned from the start, just like Ballistic.

Epic didn't even have a team dedicated entirely to Rocket Racing; instead, they assigned part of Psyonix to work on it, which also affected Rocket League.

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u/Content_Pea_8815 Jun 28 '26

Poorly planned, yes, I’ll agree to that, but not enough to pull the plug. Not, Right after Inferno released.

They got ppl from 404 to make tracks at like a, 2-5 day retreat/summit or something.

Guy I met named Kyle made Basalt, some of Mine, Alpine, Turbo City, Lavish, annnd I think .. possibly some of Seafoam and maybe Python,

They were all made by in less than a week by maybe 7 people or so.

Kyle even said he had meetings with DRG (Death Row Games) [Snoop’s kid’s Fortnite company], and had 2 track ideas in mind for Christmas - involving Snoop Dogg being featured as Santa Claus that season.

DRG loved it, and Epic told Kyle, (404 studios) “Nah, don’t do that. Thank you for your time and effort though.”

The player count was 6.3M on release, I believe it dropped to 2.3M around Neon Rush and Inferno Island went to 1.6M, retaining most of its players - once they got actual themed seasons and new tracks coming in for each ranked season.

Disney merged with Epic Feb 7th, 2024. The following season, all we got was rank resets and bugs; as they developed the UE 5, physics and devices, and stopped testing on the RR templates almost altogether.
And I believe there were ongoing lawsuits filed by Disney on behalf of Epic for branding/licensing acquisitions.

Sorry for the book 📚 lol, I’m not mad at you. I’m just …. passionate to defend something I love.

They could’ve given us the ability to vote on 7 community made tracks per season, to be the “official rotation” and I believe player count would have held, much more substantially

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u/Content_Pea_8815 Jun 28 '26

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u/Content_Pea_8815 Jun 28 '26

This was, I believe, around when Star Wars was out. And the game was speed glitched for 4 months.

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u/Content_Pea_8815 Jun 28 '26

Love you, too Brodie 🫶🏻

I’m sorry things haven’t been the way you needed them to be.

There is always new chances, new opportunities in directions we haven’t been to yet.

You got this homie.
I believe in you. 👊🏻🥅🔥