Fortnite now allows creator-made games to sell in-game items — and immediately, the platform’s most popular experience Steal the Brainrot has added $45 premium item bundles and a chance-based roulette wheel.

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    13 hours ago

    I’m surprised that fortnite was willing to front the liability of allowing third party micro-transactions. Especially gatcha or gambling mechanics based ones. That could get fortnite as a whole banned in a few countries.

    Fortnites rating is Teen and their target demographic is mostly minors. Some countries have pretty big laws on allowing gambling mechanics with minors.

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        10 hours ago

        yea fair, although some countries get super iffy about it. That was a big reason Overwatch ended up swapping to a rolling store with OW2 instead of keeping the loot box system, and that was a first party MTX system.