Announced during the Tencent UP 2017 Interactive Entertainment Press Conference, the Chinese version of Rocket League is a collaboration between Tencent and Psyonix, and will feature the core Rocket League gameplay that players have come to know and love. Some changes will be made to localize the game for the Chinese market, including that it will be free-to-play with items available for purchase. Additional changes will be announced further along in the development and additional details can be found on the Tencent site.
Rocket League‘s expansion into China comes alongside the community growing to more than 30 million players who have played more than 1.25 billion completed matches since the title’s launch in July 2015.