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Epic Games may be in hot water once more, as some skins appear to be getting even more expensive to buy just days before a V-Buck price hike is due to come into effect.
The currently ongoing Fortnitemares event means that there’s been a lot of focus on costumes over the last few weeks, including the highly-anticipated Michael Myers skin. However, over on the Fortnite subreddit, Alchemeerzero noted that a newly available skin – a mummy-like character known as Seth appeared to be available on the Fortnite Store at the cost of 1200 V-Bucks, which in itself wouldn’t raise too many eyebrows. However, the skin was ranked at an Uncommon (Green) rarity, which are usually priced at the lower 800 VBucks price point.
Some fans, such as Ttvbenskionig, are hoping the higher price point is just an error on Epic’s part, potentially mislabelling the item on the store: “It’s probably a mistake – green skins are normally 800 but they don’t come with backblings but I’m assuming it was meant to be blue.” Others however, are less charitable of Epic given recent events like the company rising the price of V-Bucks later this month. “Epic would much rather nickel and dime us for as much money as they can,” believes BigBudZombie.
Many in the thread also reasonably point out the oddness of having a ‘rarity’ system for items sold on the store – especially given how these rarities are barely a factor in the game itself. “I genuinely don’t understand the rarity for skins. Why are some skins uncommon, some rare and some epic?” asks BucketheadJr “Why are some battle pass skins randomly Epic? What differentiates them from non-epic skins?” to which Franken_wolf1 puts forth their theory “It’s partially visually complexity and probably partially how well Epic will think the skin will sell. A skin that had a lot of work put into its design is going to cost more, and skins that will probably be in demand will cost more. Still pretty arbitrary though.”
Whatever the reasoning, any price increases are never going to go down particularly well, and as the cost of living increases and the price of services such as PlayStation Plus continue to increase, players may have to be more selective in what skins they spend their hard earned money on in the future. Hopefully, there’ll still be plenty of opportunities to save your precious V-Bucks – for example, here’s how to get a Fortnitemares 2023 skin for free.
