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.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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