Rocket Arena Is Already On Sale For $5 Two Weeks After Launch

Rocket Arena Is Already On Sale For $5 Two Weeks After Launch

Rocket Arena is undergoing a truly massive price cut only two weeks after launch to combat low player numbers and lack of interest in the game.

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Rocket Arena Is Already On Sale For $5 Two Weeks After Launch

Bombastic multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena has been massively discounted only two weeks after release, going from $30-40 down to only $5-10, depending on the version. Rocket Arena puts players in teams of three and equips them all with rocket launchers, tasking them with launching each other out of the arena in matches reminiscent of Super Smash Bros.

The multiplayer shooter genre is a very crowded space, and it is not easy to stand out among games like Overwatch and Call of Duty. Even the distinctive subgenre of “hero shooters” pioneered by Overwatch is now being done by dozens of other games, like Apex Legends or Valorant. Rocket Arena is yet another one of these, giving players a diverse array of characters to choose from. Unfortunately, it seems to have been lost in the shuffle quite dramatically. Metacritic shows the game getting middling reviews at best, and the Steam Charts for the game show it reaching a paltry all-time peak of 613 characters. Rocket Arena isn’t necessarily a bad game; Screen Rant’s own review was quite favorable. But it clearly hasn’t gained a following.

In an apparent fit of desperation to give it that following, publisher EA (thanks, GameSpot) has slashed the price enormously. Rocket Arena is now discounted from its original MSRP by roughly 80%, which is a shocking price drop for such a recent release, especially one with such a big publisher behind it. It doesn’t seem to be the first time the price for the game has been cut, either. It remains to be seen how many players, if any, are taking the opportunity to get into the game, but there is a rather unavoidable stench of desperation about the whole thing.

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Many sources agree that while the core gameplay of Rocket Arena is decently enjoyable, the game is remarkably straightforward and doesn’t offer enough for people to come back to. In this light, the price cut seems like only a temporary fix. Making the game dirt cheap might be a good way to bring in new players, but it’s a temporary fix at best if there isn’t enough to keep them there. Palette swaps locked behind in-game currency might not be enough to help EA recoup the losses they’ve accrued by discounting the game, either.

It’s never pretty to watch a game with potential decline this much this fast. Rocket Arena doesn’t have a lot going for it but there’s clearly the makings of a fun game inside it. EA’s mismanagement of the title and its vanishingly low player numbers look set to kill Rocket Arena before it has a chance to recover. It’s not easy to make a good video game, and it’s even harder to make a good game that people want to play. Rocket Arena looks like it’s quietly failing on both counts, and it’s a tragic thing to see.

Source: EA, GameSpot

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