Now that Epic Games has tuned the pricing of its more expensive cosmetics, Fortnite fans are miffed at the rotation of the Item Shop itself. Ever since Season 5 rolled around, the developer has put a huge focus on its new games, including Fortnite Festival, LEGO Fortnite, and Rocket Racing. But this has come at the expense of interesting rotations.
It means that, aside from the awesome new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle skins, the Item Shop has been looking very samey for a few weeks now. It seems the developer is trying to spotlight the 1,200 skins which have LEGO alternatives, but this has left fans searching for scraps to spend their V-Bucks on. A rerun of the Rick & Morty, Jujutsu Kaisen, and My Hero Academia outfits has helped, but there’s been a lot of repetition of late.
A casual glance at FNBR.co – a site which keeps track of each day’s Item Shop rotation, and allows users to rate them – reveals that almost 65k people “hated” today’s options, on 18th December. By comparison, less than 5k loved it. While we’ve noticed the votes on that particular site generally skew negative anyway, the ratio is rarely this bad.
Epic Games will probably want to freshen things up over the coming weeks, as a lot of kids will be getting V-Bucks for the holidays, and will be looking for something to spend them on. Looking at the leaks, there’s some good stuff on the way – but we’re mostly hoping some more popular series get a rerun over the holidays.
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Besides the awful selections, the UI itself is honestly so bad this season.
People complaining that a company is saving them from spending money?
@Jacko11
Yeah the Ui is terrible this season the locker section is specifically bad I think thats costing purchases as people cant be bothered to navigate the locker so see no point buying new skins.
Yes bring back the old UI please. Unless Epic is beta testing a new survival-mode roguelike game called Fortnite Menus
I have trouble navigating the UI to even be able to find my skins now.
@Enigk It would be funny but it's more depressing for me.
People complaining about stuff like this deserve all they get. They should rather be complaining that they are being sold such worthless cr*p in the first place.
@Enigk They have already spent their money. They now want to spend their newly acquired v-bucks.
I'm more annoyed they made the ninja turtles but put Leonardos swords upside down (curved edge should be facing up). It irks me.
@Enigk
I know, the absurdity of this story is truly baffling.
Humankind is on the edge of abyss... they complain they cannot buy different "nothing", only "nothing".
Ive said before the avg gamer nowadays is a timmy scrub. Anyone who buys skins and battlepasses shouldnt be considered a gamer. Developers love clowns who buy skins. Avg gamer cares more about how they look in the game rather then how good they are. Skin over skill wins with gamers nowadays
@Enigk 100% agree. It just goes to show what Fortnite is: an addiction-based money siphoning scheme, that pressure the mark to make purchases to fit in / for fear of judgement. It's a high school clique system and class based system bundled into one predatory piece of garbage.
Let them be mad.
Oh well, anyway
They’ll get over it when their parents give them their pocket money
Well, honestly, they put out three games at once instead and they did so for free. I’m not a Fortnite fan, but come on, people. “I need to buy skins tho!” Seriously?! Was the add on of three new full games not enough content for Fortnite players? Ridiculous.
Now, that said, those new games are a little barebones in some respects, and I did try them this weekend, but, if I did play Fortnite on a regular basis, I would forgive the developers.
My only exposure to fortnite is when my nephew comes over at the weekend and every week I'm glad I'm able to resist playing this game because spending money seems so easy. Like hell yeah I want a Donatello skin and omg I can be a candy cane with a moustache like sign me up. OH the money I could waste on this game.
@bindiana they've also made wraps pointless and any more than 4-5 sets of emotes a waste of time.
I haven’t spent any money on this since my $8 battle pass 2 years so don’t care much about the store and v-but but the locker menu is killing me. KiLL ing ME. 😩 I honestly don’t understand how we have character skins who have their own emotes, wallpaper and music but they are in 3 different locker loadouts now rather than one. It boggles my mind. I have 30 characters saved in complete sets but have only been changing between 2 skins - Hope and Highwire - and I don’t even bother changing anything else, it’s simply not worth my time. So I’m not even unlocking anything in the battle pass anymore besides the v-bux b/c why bother, I’m not gonna use them, save them or set them up. 🤷🏻♂️
Still play battle royal every day, I like winter fest, but they can keep the rest.
They should go buy a packet of Pokémon cards instead.
No new skins for literally weeks!!?? 😭 This is a great tragedy, a terrible terrible end to 2023.
@thefourfoldroot1
It's only worthless if it has no worth to you. The people who buy these cosmetics feel that they are getting their money's worth out of them. I know how a lot of us in the comment section feel about microtransactions in games but some (more like A LOT of) people do not feel that there are any issues with spending the money on this type of content.
@KundaliniRising333
Do you mean like all things Capitalism...its all predatory and grinds on your desire to fit in. Brand name clothes, brand name beverages, brand name containers for your beverage. Unboxing for name brands, name brand phones, and the different types of cars from lame to cool to exotic. It's all Fortnight skins as far as the eye can see.
Its always been Fortnight skins
@Pikki the problem with that is, there have been 1,762 skins in Fortnite so far. Some of them are from battle passes (which never return) but having 1,500+ skins in the item shop at the same time wouldn’t work for obvious reasons.
Ppl really love to burn their money
@MikeOrator
They have been conditioned to feel like they are getting their money’s worth, whereas in fact they are being ripped off. I’d call them gullible, but that would be unfair as they are largely kids or have been playing since they were kids. I make no apologies for providing them with a different perspective.
@thefourfoldroot1
That's fair, not saying you shouldn't. But try to think of something in your life that you spend money on frivolously that you could do without but still love and then think of somebody trying to tell you you don't need it. It's not any kind of chemical dependency just a fun thing.
Maybe you like setting off fireworks, you spend money on a bunch for the weekend, light them on fire, and after a few thrilling minutes, POOF, done. Some would say that you wasted your money as you have nothing to show for it but the memories of the colorful explosions, and maybe a few pictures that pale in comparison to the event itself.
I'm just saying that maybe, just maybe, these people who are buying all this digital content are happy doing what they do. And isn't that a good thing no matter how You feel about it?
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