As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics
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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.
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
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Don't forget that while this is all happening, Tim Sweeney (Epic CEO) is actively defending child porn on X.
A fine candidate for the US president
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I thought it was a third person shooter with bafflingly shitty gunplay..I.guess things have changed since it came out.
Fortnite like roblox and warcraft 3 at this point are almost entirely played for their custom games.
Some of the most popular games of all time in terms of player base are currently roblox custom games and fortnite custom games right now.
It's truely absurd how many players some of these games pull in.
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Best option for non-US countries is to ban scrip currencies and illegal gambling.
If the oligarch doesn't immediately comply and starts parroting American-style "legal roleplay" polemics, put them on a wanted list and storm their yacht when it is in international waters.
No sacred cows on this, should apply to Epic, Valve or whoever.
Valve doesn't use any form of script currency tho. Everything is straight government currency.
Steam wallet is just a glorified gift card with USD/euro/etc
So weird you call valve out on this one when they literally are the sole exception to this problem.
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Valve doesn't use any form of script currency tho. Everything is straight government currency.
Steam wallet is just a glorified gift card with USD/euro/etc
So weird you call valve out on this one when they literally are the sole exception to this problem.
Valve removed lootboxes from their games? When did this happen?
I stand by what I say, we need consistent enforcement and not picking favourites.
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The game that this is within already targets children with expensive micro transactions. So pretending like this changes anything is kinda dumb.
If its ok to buy fortnite skins its fine to buy whatever a $45 brain rot skin gets you and its extra funny that it can be stolen.
I can understand your viewpoint and agree with it even that Fortnite is overly engineered to sell overpriced cosmetic items to children.
I think where we differ is that one wrong (regular Fortnite skins), doesn’t excuse another, worse wrong (brainrot lootboxes and expensive mtx that can be lost)
The whole operation should be shut down, I think we agree there. Fortnite is actually the majority profiteer in this case, the “experience dev” only gets 34% of the revenue from the sale. Infuriating how hypocritical epic is after fighting apple and google over these practices only to do the same thing.
At least Apple and Google try to protect their users from this kind of thing
