Blogs It is basically the same game as Rocket League

It's basically the same game as Rocket League," said Davis. "And it got a 67 on Metacritic." This makes it, at least by Metacritic's own ranking system, the 92nd best game to Rocket League Keys launch on the PlayStation 3 that year. So what exactly happened? What changed, aside from the name, over the next seven years, which meant that Rocket League could manage what SARPBC never could?

Well for a start, the gaming landscape hasn't exactly remained static during that time. Since 2008 we've seen Twitch streaming and YouTube gaming channels take over, with both now attracting huge, incredibly influential audiences. Psyonix claims to have spent nothing on traditional marketing, instead relying on these newer platforms to promote its game more organically. That doesn't sound quite so outlandish today, but seven years ago, it was unthinkable. Seven years ago, community-driven sites like Reddit weren't bringing in 20 million users every month."Reddit was absolutely massive for us," said Davis. "The PS4 subreddit picked our game up during the beta and that's what blew us really wide, we think. The GIFs took over. We think that's where it all basically started."