![]() ![]() Sadly that's the videogames industry-you can make a great game about dodgeball, but making it a hit isn't child's play. This is a legitimately fun and unusual multiplayer experience, and you do feel there could be an audience out there for it: if Velan can somehow make this F2P relaunch stick. It's not nice to see a game as good as Knockout City struggling to find the playerbase it needs to be a going concern. Velan Studios says players are going to see less content than usual as season 5 draws to a close, because "we have a bunch of behind-the-scenes work to do to get ready for going free-to-play, and our team is all-hands-on-deck working on that." For now, players will still need an EA Account to play. ![]() This figure obviously reflects only one store when the game is available on others and on consoles, but at the moment there are 111 people playing Knockout City on Steam: which is more than the 3 playing EA Originals' other competitive multiplayer game, Rocket Arena, but not exactly a healthy number for a game that depends on other players. Today, that free-to-play version of Knockout City has launched. That all makes things sound quite civil, positive even, but it does seem notable that a game which obviously needs some sort of a turnaround-you don't change business model if things are going well-is going to lose access to the resource and visibility that a publisher like EA can give it. Knockout City Is Officially Free-To-Play, Season 6 Now Live by Wesley LeBlanc on at 10:22 AM Knockout City developer Velan Studios announced back in February that its dodgeball multiplayer game would be going free-to-play. ![]()
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