Let’s all hand our money over for skins so our kids can sit inside and play video games instead of doing real shit. Good idea. That will make sure they are corporate boot lockers for life.
They’re kids. They don’t know anything yet, and they want to play what their friends are playing.
FaygoRedPop@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You’re on a gaming forum. You didn’t play video games as a kid?
FaygoRedPop@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I still play video games. I pay for a game and play it. Paying for skins is stupid. FTP or paid doesn’t matter.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
And we’re all proud of you, but try explaining that to a child.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
I did, but you don’t need vbucks to play Fortnite. Also, one thing didn’t keep my attention for long, so I preferred more games when I was a kid. Vbucks just buys skins. And you get free skins just playing the game and free vbucks just playing the game.
So pretty stupid to spend most of the limited money as a kid on skins year after year when it’s pretty much thrown at you so you don’t have to stick to default skins.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
You don’t need V-Bucks to play Fortnite, but kids aren’t also known for having fully-developed skills like budgeting and delayed gratification. Perhaps it holds today’s kids’ attention longer because it’s changing in a way that games didn’t when we were kids.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Fortnite Save the World (paid game mode) made a lot of vbucks originally, but the high-payout challenges (300 vbucks/day) are only available to players who owned that mode prior to some time in 2020. Buying STW now gives a one time pack of 1500 vbucks. So the alternative, given that the vast majority of players didn’t buy the game, play for free in Bottle Royale. It takes 4 seasons to gain enough free vbucks in battle Royale to have enough to buy a season pass. It’s 1000 for the pass and typically has 300 free vbucks (100 near the bottom, 200 around level 80). So then you’re talking like 40 hours of play per season, with strong encouragement to play daily for an easy +1 level. The actual skins are typically paywalled behind the battle pass.
Then there’s the shop. Buying separate skins are anywhere from like 500 to 2000 vbucks. If it’s a full season, there’s probably an extra 500 vbucks available if you hit level 150 or so. So now like 60 hours every 2-3 months to get the free 500 to accumulate after the battle pass renewal.
That’s not sustainable. It’s not supposed to be. Skins are nowhere near “affordable” with free bucks. They don’t care if it’s your money or your game time that makes the vbucks because it’s time and/or money taken from other games. So what if it’s their limited money? What exactly did you invest in as a kid? All I put it towards was, effectively, entertainment that didn’t last longer as a skin, be it a game, a toy, or candy. Maybe even less, given that fortnite has been running for what, 9 years?
And no, I really don’t give a shit about any complaints about them just being cosmetic skins. They’re kids. I’m sure you had your brand name demands when you were 12. It’s the same shit. Vans are just shoes. Mongoose is just a bicycle. Air jordans are just shoes. JNCO is just pants. Air Forces are just shoes. Louisville slugger is just a bat. Whatever must-have item it was, it didn’t make either of us professionals at the game or sport. Yet, somehow, it still was the most important thing that week.
Ryoae@piefed.social 11 hours ago
He’s living on the edge. I bet he’s also a juggalo who peaked in middle-school. Let it go.