Rocket league is a finished and established product. They also don't seem to have any big plans in the near future. They are totally fine with selling season pass and crats/keys. They don't seem to care about new content in form of gameplay changes, or fixing month old bugs for that matter.
I'd argue that it's the perfect time to 'sell out'. They already won, it is now a good point in time to move on and do something else.
This seems likely. They began piling on sponsorships when the game became feature-complete and since then the only significant changes have been additional micro-transactions. There is little left to squeeze out of Psyonix in terms of innovation. The acquisition will help drag Steam users kicking and screaming into the Epic Store.
I played a ton of Rocket League and I think there's some non-obvious benefits to Psyonix being acquired by Epic Games that boil down to "Psyonix can be more focused on the core game".
Being acquired by Epic could reduce headaches in these areas:
- Logistics behind eSports leagues.
- Managing server scale, stability and performance.
- Managing platform cross-play.
- Managing publishing across multiple platforms.
I think that the logistical overhead of keeping the lights on is at the expense of Psyonix's ability to provide meaningful content updates and keep the core gameplay fresh.
