Rocket league online. Need help

[Zero165]

I currently live in my college's hostel and am connected to its wi-fi. Problem is the wi-fi here blocks all games sites including steam and rocket league's official website. The only way around this is by connecting to a VPN but that drastically increases my ping. So my question is Is there a way for me to know if i can play rocket league online without actually buying the game??
Also since i just bought a pc that can actually handle online games i don't have any examples to go around with.

 

[the_crippler]

Do you know anyone who has the game? They could always log into Steam at your place and try it.

Other than that, there's no way you could try the game for free.

 

[Justin Millard]

Rocket League online is easily playable with high ping. Heck, I get regular drop outs on my current connection and Rocket League uses my CPU to guess where everyone will be in the game while I re-connect. Its usually crazy accurate too.
Its got the best online servers and online connection I have ever seen in a game.

If you stick to servers in your region you will be fine.

 

[James Mason]

Can you play RL without buying the game? no.
You can however maybe use a trick with Google Translate to mimick a VPN so you can download steam/visit the RL site.
http://lifehacker.com/access-blocked-sites-at-school-or-work-with-google-tran-1440764030

Spoiler in case your school also blocks lifehacker:

Spoiler

If your school or office blocks a good portion of the web for "productivity's" sake, Redditor sidewayssammich shares a useful tip: just plug a site into Google Translate to view it.

Just copy and paste the URL of the page you want to view into Google Translate. On the left side, click on any language as long as it isn't "Detect Language," then translate it into English. You should be able to view the page (possibly with a few quirks, but otherwise intact) through Google Translate.

It won't work everywhere, but some people are reporting good success with it, and it's especially useful if you need a blocked site for your work. Just remember there's a reason your work or school may have sites blocked—if it's for security reasons, you may want to think twice, but if they're just trying to derail your productivity, it's easier to just run it through the translator. Be sure to check out all the other things you can bypass with Google, too.