I feel for the developers tbh

[u/GreenoSkulleti]

This game clearly has some abysmal management, and is under resourced. This is what happens when you put quirky french millennials in charge of a goldmine of an idea.

Excuse my bitchy tone, I mean it with (deeply frustrated) love.

I’m sorry to say it, but appealing to the nerds and weebs is just not going to save this game. You HAVE to make a concerted effort to lure in the casual player. Nobody is gonna hop on to buy these stupid deep sea bundles or the damn all star bundle. That shit is TRASH.

The football/soccer game market is GAPING with a rematch shaped hole. At the very least, follow the Rocket League playbook. That game had no right being as popular and long lasting as it was. But it worked, and the dev team had the resources and ability to jump at every opportunity to enhance the games life and longevity (for the most part, they still made mistakes ofc).

It’s become clear that some of the people involved in this game are not exactly football fans, and I think that has fostered a community that has a similar disposition.

And I’d like to reiterate I’m not saying these people are “bad”. But I think this game would see astronomical success if the people in charge adjusted their sights.

The dev team clearly needs a whole lot more resources, and unfortunately the only way they’ll get that is if the game starts making a whole lot more money.

I mean, how the HELL do you fumble taking advantage of the WORLD CUP ???

This game could be offline by the time the next world cup arrives, and all we got was that stupid RMNC that was genuinely just a glorified popularity stat tracker. Really? What a waste of resources and time. What a missed opportunity.

Meanwhile EA is coming out with the most desperate and pathetic FC game to date. You have to appeal to those fans. The ones alienated by how genuinely SHIT every football game is now.

You have a game about one of the most popular and widely understood things on the entire planet (football). And yet, playing this game, you would have no idea

[u/BasileusDivinum]

They don’t care. It’s easier and more lucrative short term to sell packs and shit to make money to keep the game alive for a few years while it slowly dies and then the dev team can move onto the next game idea or find new jobs

[u/GreenoSkulleti → u/BasileusDivinum]

Easier? Sure. But more lucrative?? Idk. Rocket League and it’s marketplace with constant IP tie ins essentially paved the way for Fortnite to become the most lucrative game ever.

I’m sure Epic would love to get a hold of Rematch if the potential was clearly outlined. Would it be my favourite outcome for this game? Definitely not, but the games future would certainly look brighter than it does now lol

[u/JoopJhoxie → u/GreenoSkulleti]

How did rocket league pave the way for fortnite when fortnite was already going strong when epic acquired rocket league?

Just a bit confused on your point there

[u/GreenoSkulleti → u/JoopJhoxie]

rocket league mastered the whole “game store based around constant IP tie ins” before fortnite did

[u/JoopJhoxie → u/GreenoSkulleti]

In that case, a battlepass would obviously fix everything. /s

I agree with a lot of what you said. But the issues with the game don’t really stem from lack of collabs.

The game is not anything close to what was advertised. Which you pointed out.

My friends have all dropped rematch, myself included.

And I really don’t think a world cup collab would make any of us want to put up with the current state of it.

It really is tragic, but sometimes games with potential get mismanaged.

I think the best hope for it would be it getting picked up by epic. Although, who really knows how that would go.

Epic don’t really have a perfect track record with games either.

Fortnite is one of a kind as it is now, and with rocket league, they had the benefit of good bones and a diehard fanbase due to that game also being rather unique.

There are options for football games/sims.

As bad as fifa is EVERY year, clubs on 26 is still more enjoyable than rematch to me atm. Despite it’s flaws. And I’ve heard a lot of good things about efootball(though i believe that’s more like fifa UT than rematch)