Epic Games to add \u2018undo purchase\u2019 button for Fortnite Item Shop refunds, with a catch With the Fortnite Battle Royale Item Shop receiving heavy scrutiny and backlash from many players, Epic Games are taking steps to try and make everyone happy. The major controversy currently facing Fortnite\u2019s Item Shop is that there is no feature that asks players to confirm their purchases prior to the sale of a cosmetic item going through. The way the shop works now, and has always worked, is once a player is on any cosmetic item\u2019s page, one press of the \u2018Purchase\u2019 button immediately initiates the sale. This has become a problem for many players, primarily those on console, as any accidentally press of the designated button will cause an item to be purchased with no way to cancel the transaction. There is currently a way to refund items in Fortnite, but the process requires the player to use up one of their three lifetime refund tokens, assuming they have any left on their account. Fortunately, Epic Games are looking to help fix this issue by adding a \u201cundo purchase\u201d button in the Item Shop, which will allow players to cancel their previous transaction. The new feature will have a catch however, as players will only have up to five minutes to use on their previous purchase, and cannot use it after they\u2019ve already loaded into a match since making the purchase. Here is the full announcement message for this new button, courtesy of a developer\u2019s post on Reddit: We neither want to add friction for players nor do we want to benefit from accidental purchases or players regretting a purchase. Our initial solution for this was to add a refund token system. As an ongoing iteration, we are going to introduce an \u201cundo\u201d button to the store page that allows you to easily refund without using up a token within a 5 minute time window, assuming you haven\u2019t started a match since purchase. The reactions to the announcement of this new feature have been mixed, with Reddit users commenting their arguments for why they are for or against an \u2018undo purchase\u2019 button. Some believe that all of this can be avoided if Epic simply added a confirmation page after the \u2018purchase\u2019 button was clicked on a cosmetic item\u2019s page. Others claim that this new feature would not only essentially serve as a confirmation step, but also as a safety net since players can still \u201caccidentally\u201d confirm the same way they incidentally clicked to make the purchase in the first place. As of now, Epic are yet to announce when this new feature will go live in Fortnite, although it could be as early as the v8.10 update, which is set to go live on March 12. It\u2019s important to also note that the addition of this new button will not affect the self refund system that\u2019s currently in place, which will continue to function as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epic Games to add \u2018undo purchase\u2019 button for Fortnite Item Shop refunds, with a catch With the Fortnite Battle Royale Item Shop receiving heavy scrutiny and backlash from many players, Epic Games are taking steps to try and make everyone happy. The major controversy currently facing Fortnite\u2019s Item Shop is that there is no feature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}