irrelevant guy rants about fortnite

[Wonderwoman]

So basically the popular trend for the past 6-8 months is Fortnite. Quite a cool game, but I have a few things to say about it.

I'll start with the positive attitude and talk about STW.

It's a great PvE multiplayer game and you can buy V-Bucks to get new heroes, weapon schematics, survivors, defenders, and more. I only really spend money on the Loot Llamas. Although this doesn't really comply with what Epic Games themselves said 'we do not plan to add any pay to win combat advantages to our game', it's still a cool option and I get they need to make money so they can advertise and stay relevant.


Let's move on to Battle Royale, the free part of the game (until STW is released for free at some point this year). It's an awesome game, albeit a complete rip off from PUBG, and both games utilise Unreal Engine (by Epic Games) so the client-competitor relationship doesn't help out their legal situation. As I said though, it's a cool game.

But spending money on skins? Really? You're probably thinking 'well yeah, but it's the same with PUBG and CS:GO, right?' Not really. In Fortnite, every skin costs a good 1k V-Bucks ($9.99). Keeping in mind I'm the brother of someone who's probably spent above £500 on Fortnite in the last few months, and I doubt I'm the only one, I know that the amount of money spent on a set (glider, skin, and sometimes an emote) is pretty ridiculous. Most people don't even use these skins - and so forth - for more than a day or two, when they move on to another 'awesome' skin they just found in the Featured store page.

Don't get me wrong, it's a cool game, but it's pretty ridiculous that you could buy a set of in-game clothing for a pretty high amount of money, while if you bought it in real life that clothing would cost pretty much the same price.

Please leave some opinions below if you have any.

 

[Wonderwoman]

I agree with ya, the skins are a little over the top expensive. I stopped with fortnite because it got pretty boring

Yeah, it is a pretty cool game, but I've never bought anything except the 'Breakin' emote in Battle Royale.

 

[Wonderwoman]

Lol, i only have the twitch prime pack

Yea lol. I got the STW version for free because I play on my little brother's old Xbox, and he already had it downloaded there with his gametag, and I got pretty into that.

Anyone else have an opinion?

 

[Wonderwoman]

don't be broke.

I don’t really see your point. Could you exaggerate please?

I could have a million dollars (and my family does - not boasting, just showing I know what I’m on about). It doesn’t mean I’m willing to spend a couple hundred USD to get everything on the featured page on a daily basis. Money doesn’t grow on trees - if it did, Epic Games wouldn’t charge people for it.

I totally agree, they really need to lower the vbuck prices because, a lot of the "rare" skins in the store cost around 2500 vbucks, that is £20 in the UK. So you're paying £20 for an ingame skin, which gives you no advantage what so ever. But if you don't your classed as a noob? I mean yes I have bought things previously, but I got the vbucks by playing save the world. Not paying ridiculous amounts of money for them.

Really good point, not only do you save money with STW, you have fun doing it. That’s how it should be.

 

[Wonderwoman]

the dont buy skins LOL its that simple. if you dont have funds for it dont buy them.

Once again, I’m not really seeing your point, despite my efforts. I’m sure you know what you’re on about, though.

That aside, realistically no one has that amount of funds to waste, if you think about it. There’s always a point of which you’ll have lost everything to the money pit, no matter what the ‘money pit’ refers to.

 

[Wonderwoman]

a couple hundred isnt really anything to me to spend on a game. why does it matter. the game needs something to profit off of hence it being free.

I get that, but let’s think.

They lower the prices so I and others don’t need to bother about making this rant and that other people are being charged a reasonable price.

In turn, more people can afford the skins and buy them.

Overall, Fortnite makes a pretty similar profit.

We’re also talking about everyone here - not just you. We can’t all afford to drop 1-2 hundred on a game on a daily basis.

 

[Wonderwoman]

People buy skins to look cool. Yes ofc you can always just play the game for free and it will be the same. But why do that? If you have the money, you enjoy the game, then what's the issue with spending money on it so they can keep the game running and release more updates. The game isn't free to run for them and neither is development
I've never paid for anything on Fortnite, but I don't see a reason not to if I wanted to buy a skin. It's really not that big an issue

I get that you don’t need to buy anything, but the prices are pretty high regardless (please refer to my above few posts addressing that and how the prices could be lowered above). A lot of communities ‘won’t accept you’ if you don’t look cool, when in reality you just don’t want to spend £9.99 to look ‘less like a noob’.

In some ways this is more of a complaint against the community of Fortnite, but I’m also trying to raise awareness to those people who spend a ton of money on the game all the time, and how many better uses the money could have.

 

[Wonderwoman]

if you're scared to look like a noob in a video game, you're insecure.

Which most nine year olds on the internet are, which isn’t as much their fault as it is of the online society they’re growing up in.

 

[Wonderwoman]

you should have thick skin if you're going on the internet no matter what lol

I completely agree.