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to be honest i do not know if making it a free game is a good idea.
why? take example of CS:GO. one of the best games i ever knew, are now way more full of cheaters and noobs and the community became a lot more toxic by kids and russians. also, as a player who paid 15$ for steam to buy csgo i feel like its unfair because i paid and people not which makes you  a little bit disappointed from the game developers. BUT making rocket league a free game is good for the developers because a lot of people would play it and after they will get addicted they will probably tear their wallets on the store and the developers will increase their profit of the game.

I am also a regular player of CS:GO and despite going free to play, I actually haven't seen alot of people complain about hackers. Personally I never really faced any hackers in CS:GO Prime, I too have some alt accounts which are non prime and there I definitely meet hackers regularly but not on my main account. Perhaps the amount of hackers are dependent on the ranks, like I usually play around GNM-MG1 criteria and don't really get any hackers(Like 1 hacker per 50 games or so), perhaps that count is higher on different leagues.

One important reason due to which I think Valve was confident in making CS:GO f2p is that Valve made VACnet to stop cheaters, and VACnet is built through AI and improves when more data is fed to it. By going f2p Valve is getting way more data then they would if they were still a paid game so maybe that's why they made it F2P.

Personally I also feel that It was kindof unfair to those players who actually bought the game. All we really got was a legacy pin which doesn't really mean much. I personally recommend they should've give the CS 1.6 knife to all legacy players which wouldn't be tradeable! Now that'd really be a cool gift to those players who actually spent their money and time.