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…
Have the game you registered for.
Pretty obvious what was going to happen when they decided to go the Roblox route. Fortnite and Roblox are both predatory slop. Quite frankly the developers (even if they are kids) releasing paid “experiences” (aka slop) are just as immoral and predatory.
Talk to your kids about not falling for scams like f2p monetization schemes.
Don’t forget that while this is all happening, Tim Sweeney (Epic CEO) is actively defending child porn on X.
Epic fail.
Meanwhile Tim Sweeney is defending pedophilia and genAI.
These games are so disgusting. Sad that kids get so addicted to them.
At least in my day they only took a few quarters from ya, unless you had skills
unless you had skills
Tell that to Altered Beasts. By the late 80’s they were designed to take your quarters. No skills could avoid it.
Oh its true. It was always designed to get the money from the kids!
The most insane part of Steal the Brainrot having MTXs is someone can steal the thing you spent real money on, leave the lobby, and you’ll never see it again
So Fortnite is becoming Roblox…
Tim Sweeney really decided to lean in on this by defending the pedo AI gen bullshit on twitter
GAAS is a fucking scam. Stop playing this consumer abusing trash.
This is even worse this is GAAP. Games as a platform like Roblox. So Fortnite is now filled with even more slop
You are more or less preaching to the choir
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.
I am impressed, I dont play fortnite, but still its interesting they allowed 3erd party customizations.
They probably saw how much money Roblox makes and that public opinion is (finally) starting to turn on Roblox. They want that pie
Yeah a slippery slope if children start making content and not paid enough
Lol. That’s got nothing to do with it. The adults stalking kids is what’s up.
Sweeney loves him some CSAM, too.
it’s not actually fortnite, they now have a roblox-like game mode browser where players could create games in an editor.
But you launch Fortnite to access it on every platform. There isn’t an “Epic UGC” app. So this is what Fortnite has become. An umbrella for experiences that include Battle Royal, Zero Build, Concerts, etc.
Those in the industry know that the guy running the content in question is just using the most profitable techniques available to him.
