For nylig afslørede Epic Games i en lettere kort bemærkning, at de hæver priserne på V-Bucks i Fortnite, og dette skyldes, angiveligt, fordi omkostningerne ved at køre spillet er steget. Det er ikke alt, eftersom du får færre V-Bucks i hvert Battle Pass og færre V-Bucks igennem Fortnite Crew-abonnementet.
Dette har, måske til ingens overraskelse, skabt røre blandt fans, der ikke rigtig køber grunden bag stigningerne. Dette kommer også efter at den nuværende Season 7 er den længste nogensinde, og med et utal af crossovers der er betalte. Alt fra Harry Potter til Kim Kardashian har i princippet "bare" været skins man kunne købe.
Som IGN skriver er diverse Reddit-tråde, fans på X og andre platforme skummet over med vrede hot takes fra fans, der lover at droppe fremtidige Battle Passes, og at afmelde Fortnite Crew. Store dele af den negative opmærksomhed kommer igennem streams fra en stor Fortnite-spiller, TypicalGamer, der har sagt dette:
"Here's the thing, I don't doubt the cost of running Fortnite has gone up. But other than that it's tough. We don't have all the inside knowledge of them running the company. The community sentiment was truly that there was just collabs, on collabs, on collabs, and that's what Epic was focused on. So for that to be the community sentiment and then for them to drop this, it's just not a good mix. And people are angry. They're really, really upset. Some people are saying they're not even going to buy the next season's battle pass in protest. If they had just waited a little bit, until after they'd made Save the World free-to-play, focused on the storyline and Fortnite's own characters, brought the storyline back and made a banger of a season... I think at that point you get a lot less community backlash. A lot of people are just feeling like it's a slap in the face after everything that's going on the last few months... But I do feel it's rare that Fortnite turns back this decision. The way they worded it, the way it's so blunt, it's like they just wanted to rip off the bandage and there's no going back."
Det lyder usandsynligt at priserne vil falde igen, ja.