Fortnite Is Finally Listening

Fortnite Is Finally Listening

Yesterday Epic games accidentally released the original paradigm skin in the Fortnite item shop. This led to one of the most controversial decision in their history which was getting rid of exclusivity for future battle pass releases. Needless to say we are in a new era of Fortnite cosmetics. The question still remains, will this be a good decision for Fortnite moving forward?

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[burpingslurpees]

It's funny to me cause the people who gloat about having exclusive skins and the ones who gatekeep certain cosmetics NEVER USE THEM.

Like, you're gloating about having fully maxed out omega but I know you're only gonna use the aura/superhero skins.

[masterofbloopers]

A few things:

1. There is zero literal value in these cosmetics, no matter how exclusive they are. Unless you plan on selling your account, which is a _major_ violation of TOS. In fact, removing exclusivity will help curb the issue of account selling, since the biggest pull for buying an account is the rare and exclusive cosmetics they have.

2. I don't like the "Epic can just make a new variant of a cosmetic" argument. While true, that isn't enough to please most people yearning for a skin. Epic could make 100 different variations of a single skin, and they could all look objectively better than the original, but despite all of that, it's still not the original skin, and that's the issue. Adventure Peely, Toon Peely, Peelybone, etc. are all great skins, but they're still not the original Peely. For anyone who desperately wants the original skin, those alternate skins might not be enough.

3. Everyone will still be incentivized to purchase Battle Passes for three major reasons: the price, the expedience, and the guarantee. Either pay 950 V-Bucks now, get all the Battle Pass cosmetics now, and get all of them guaranteed, _OR_ wait a year and-a-half and pay way more than 950 V-Bucks for a single cosmetic... if it happens to be in the current rotation of the ever-changing, always-fickle item shop. And there's not even a guarantee it _will_ return. The choice should be clear. Take the Battle Pass.

4. The "You only want these cosmetics because you don't have them/ you won't even use them once you have them" is 100% a strawman argument. That's just your opinion. That might even be a bit of projection. _You_ may feel that way, but others may not. How can you know the reason behind someone wanting a cosmetic? How can you know for certain who's going to use what cosmetic when they finally get their hands on them? You can't. You may have seen it happen several times in the past, but those people don't represent the entirety of the community.

5. I do understand that some people enjoy the feeling of having an item that signifies their veteran status in the game, that they were there to support the game during that one specific time. I have a solution to this that Epic already seems to have thought of as well: unique skin styles for OG owners. It happened with The Paradigm. This should, in theory, please those who want a status symbol and bragging rights, but also the players that hate exclusivity shouldn't lose sleep over a simple recolor.

Also, there is no way Epic won't add past Battle Passes to this new policy. Be it pressure from the community, or from third parties, I am fairly certain that Epic will let the other half of the genie out of the bottle at some point. But maybe that's just me trying to will it into reality. Who can say? Time will tell.

[alicobosboi]

These past few days have been a rollercoaster for the fortnite fandom. We didn't get fnaf but Paradigm came back to end battle pass exclusivity.

[SydneyPawYT]

i've said this when the paradigm announcement getting an og style
i would not be opposed to old bp items like drift or catalyst going into the shop
but giving them an exclusive OG edit style to original owners

[UltimateisUltimate]

I know some people have discussed maybe doing something halo does for their battle passes: re-releasing the old battle passes after a grace period and allow you to finish those at your own pace, for a higher price

[UnderSeaCorn]

I highly doubt that people will actually wait 2+ years to buy a battle pass skin for $20, which they could’ve got for free

[FlameKing]

If they want to hold some exclusively to the old items, just sell the entire battle pass for one solid price, not separately. For limited time events or such. (I.E.: Chapter 1 Season 1: Battle Pass available for 24 hours in the store for a set price) can be full price, $70 bucks, $50 bucks etc etc.

[Jake-uvsl]

"You only want the skin because you can't have it."

No offence, but that's just stupid. I want the Mandalorian and Charlotte because I like them and want to play as them, if they were in the item shop I'd have bought them so fast, only I can't. And that's not what makes me want to play as them

[batbugz]

I think you're missing the obvious here, a battle pass cost 950 Vbucks, a single skin costs on average as low as 1, 200 or as high as 2000 vbucks. Now a battle pass (which cost 950) comes with about six skins So even if you want the battle pass for one skin you're still paying less for that one's skin then if you waited two years to get them in the shop. There's also the exclusivity grace period of 18 months.

[BrushedRanger]

It just makes me sad knowing how much fun I have playing as Optimus prime but I know alot of Transformers fans will never experience that same feeling of being the leader of the autobots

Its artificial rarity not because its actually rare

[ramonabdiel]

This is a good step towards getting content from old battle passes back into the game, let’s just hope they learn the right lessons from this

And this is coming from someone that’s being playing since the early beginnings of Chapter 1

[acrossthemayaverse]

its a start but people want past battlepasses not future. everyone mainly wants bp collab skins (like deadpool and spiderman) not future variants of said skins but in a different style

[Dr.Cheese.]

If they add the ability to buy old battle pass skins I feel like epic should give og owners a special style for skins

[babyburch]

There are a lot of things here that I actually agree with. From exclusivity isn’t always a malicious thing to ppl constantly begging for things because of FOMO.

From everything that has transpired from here onwards, I’m just happy to see things change for the better. Just hope that the community themselves won’t boil over something so minuscule in the future.

[lunewulff]

It might say future on the post, but old is inevitable now. It's no longer a matter of "if" anymore, but "when", and they know this.

[skebii]

The main thing I want from them is to let us finish old battle passes that we bought and I feel like we might be one step closer to that now.

[TheletterN-hh]

Like "I talk" said in his video, it is too little too late, most of the outfits that people want are in old battle passes that will never return... At least not anytime soon

[mykha.]

Hopefully they start bringing past collabs in bp’s into shops

[GhostieToasterStrudel]

As someone who has all the season passes since season 3 chapter 1 I never cared to gatekeep. I always wanted them to allow them later on. But the way they handled Paradigm pisses me off, as an OG owner of it they should of either gave v bucks back OR let them keep the skin it’s BS they got both.

[theinhibitor]

I feel like they should only bring collab skins back cuz those are the skins that ppl complain about not having the most (from what I've seen).