Knockout City Is Going F2P and No Longer Published By EA

[Ghost-Zeus514]

[Ac3dUd3-]

is this game even played or successful? Haven't heard anything about it in 2022

[Sergen]

Might as well have announced the server shutdown, I don't see this going too well for them when they've had to resort to this and EA is no-longer on board. 

[kevinyang82]

On 25/02/2022 at 5:48 AM, Ac3dUd3- said:

is this game even played or successful? Haven't heard anything about it in 2022

You can see from the recent trophy earners, there's still a decent amount playing.

 

Not a lot in the Australia/Oceania region though.

 

US servers a lot more active. 

[RedHotChiliFan1]

First a ps plus game and now free. Is this now the third time this has happened?

[Dry]

On 26/2/2022 at 3:45 PM, RedHotChiliFan1 said:

First a ps plus game and now free. Is this now the third time this has happened?

Actually, this is the fourth time a game has gone (or in this case, soon to be) F2P after being offered to PS Plus members through the IGC.

 

The other three games that have done this previously are Rocket League, Destiny 2 and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (now known as “PUBG: Battlegrounds” which in my opinion was a rather unnecessary name change AND a very shit one might I add. PUBG Corp. does realise that PUBG is an acronym, right? Just think about it: “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: Battlegrounds”, what the fuck does that even mean? It’s like if Kentucky Fried Chicken changed their name to “KFC: Chicken” instead of just using “KFC” as they should because the “C” in KFC already stands for “Chicken”, no need to say it twice! When people say that repetition is beneficial to corporate branding and/or advertising, I don’t think this is what they meant.)

 

EDIT: As of typing this soon there might be five games that have gone F2P post-IGC offering. That fifth game being Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout as this is rumoured to be the case upon the retirement of the original PS4 game launcher in favour of a new one due to the game’s publisher being passed on from Devolver Digital to Epic Games (a.k.a. Winnie The P… Oops, I mean Tencent).

Edited May 1, 2022 by Richo Vee

[Rejim]

Is there any date for when they will transition? And what does it mean for the trophy list, is it safe or will it be another FallGuys fiesta? ?

[FinalFan]

Should be June 1st, for the beginning of season 6 as I said when I posted the news.

Regarding a new trophy list (aka Fall Guys fiesta), good question, but honestly who wants to go through that buggy hell anymore as it's already known everything doesn't autopop from PS5 to PS4?

Even if things are working better now since the current season 5.

 

edit: Found the answer in PS5 forum of the game!

 

Edited April 17, 2022 by FinalFan

[Rejim]

Thanks for the update! Bit of a shame it's still kinda buggy but might get it on with it during may, try and get the plat before the change, just in case. One month is enough, considering all would be working as intended?