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.
and here we go…
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.
and here we go…
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.
All they have to do is disable games with mtx in the countries that ban it
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.
It started with having a pretty scummy loot box monetization, with plans to bring game to f2p(br was always the f2p it does not count). All they got few slaps in 2018-2021 and removed loot boxes as a result. This is not new thing for them, they already knew what they were setting up