Fortnite Avatar skins slammed for \u201cridiculous\u201d pricing after removal of cosmetic rarities Epic GamesAvatar: The Last Airbender has made its way to Fortnite, yet players are upset with the pricing model of the skin and cosmetic bundles. Fortnite\u2019s cosmetic pull has reached massive heights with each new season, with last season alone seeing Family Guy, TMNT, and Solid Snake join Epic Games\u2019 battle royale. Chapter 5 Season 2 follows up last season\u2019s incredible cosmetic pull with Avatar: The Last Airbender joining the game. As part of update 29.20, Katara, Toph, and Zuko are all purchasable skins in the game. Yet, as soon as the iconic trio joined, players were already frustrated with Epic Games\u2019 pricing of the bundles. In a post shared to the game\u2019s subreddit, one player frustratingly stated: \u201cSTOP OVERPRICING skins!\u201d They explained that the skins are priced way more than they should be due to new rules set by Epic Games regarding the Item Shop. For the unaware, skin rarities will be dropped from Fortnite, although certain series, like the Icon Series, will retain their tags. This shift in the Item Shop has players worried that skin prices will increase since rarities no longer exist, meaning Epic Games can charge to their liking without proper justification. One reply brutally summed up the gravity of the situation: \u201cThey\u2019re going to start considerably raising the prices of skins. Idiots keep saying that rarity doesn\u2019t matter, but it does. With rarity, Epic would have to adhere to the pricing model that they\u2019ve stuck with for the last 7 years. With that gone, we\u2019ll be seeing more and more of this price gouging.\u201d However, one player argued the idea of cosmetic rarities created a deeper issue with Fortnite. \u201cI don\u2019t think putting a nice color on the background justifies any exorbitant pricing they tie to skin but for some reason, people think that the background color had some sort of special meaning when it came to how things were priced.\u201d With the shop changes a work in progress, time will tell how Epic Games handles Fortnite\u2019s cosmetics moving forward. For the time being, Fortnite players aren\u2019t thrilled, and that sentiment might not change anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite Avatar skins slammed for \u201cridiculous\u201d pricing after removal of cosmetic rarities Epic GamesAvatar: The Last Airbender has made its way to Fortnite, yet players are upset with the pricing model of the skin and cosmetic bundles. Fortnite\u2019s cosmetic pull has reached massive heights with each new season, with last season alone seeing Family Guy, […]<\/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-72579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72579","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=72579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}