Rocket League Fulll Server Downtime Has Players Getting Mad

Boy, we sure do hope your morning has been a great one, because for some people in the gaming community it has started with fire and pitchforks. Popular multiplayer game, Rocket League, has been experiencing some recurring downtime with servers lately. Today’s bout, now ongoing for about four or five hours, has people in forums growing increasingly more resentful. Admittedly so, if we bought a game that’s being gutted for increased periods of time, we wouldn’t be too happy either. A noticeable problem can be seen appearing as soon as 9AM Central European Time, as pictured in the graph below:

Steam discussions are racking up topics about the server issues, some threads even reaching more than a hundred replies now, though a bunch of those are just people chiming in with “same” posts. One topic reads:

“(sic) RL this is unacceptable and we the community request you hire PR/support with employees who live in different countries”

It’s possible to select multiple server regions in Rocket League multiplayer, but anywhere from Europe to South America is not responding. As such, playlists that normally are inhabited by a few thousand players at a time are now showing up as nearly empty; all playlists, ranked and casual.

More so than just the downtime, however, a lot of people seem to be upset at the lack of communication from developer Psyonix Studios. So far, no official word has come out of the popular Steam threads. Both Twitter accounts for Rocket League and the development studio haven’t been updated in 12 hours and Reddit’s specific forum doesn’t have a response either. It probably doesn’t help that the timing of the weekend likely reduces staff on standby to deal with the server outages.

Note that it’s still possible to play Rocket League without the need for servers, but as we played around with the singleplayer earlier, let’s just say it’s not an option for a lot of players.

Recently, Rocket League saw the game ported over to Xbox One, after being available both on Playstation 4 and PC. At least 12 million unique players have been tracked. That’s a lot of people to upset on a nice weekend morning.

Daav Valentaten, NoobFeed (@Daavpuke)