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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• Butterphinger@lemmy.zip ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Have the game you registered for.

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  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.

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• Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t forget that while this is all happening, Tim Sweeney (Epic CEO) is actively defending child porn on X.

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• Nelots@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Slammed!!!

  Have journalists never heard of a thesaurus?

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  • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can’t get used for slammed because it means nothing.

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• LedzMx@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am impressed, I dont play fortnite, but still its interesting they allowed 3erd party customizations.

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  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They probably saw how much money Roblox makes and that public opinion is (finally) starting to turn on Roblox. They want that pie

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    • LedzMx@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah a slippery slope if children start making content and not paid enough

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  • simple@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it’s not actually fortnite, they now have a roblox-like game mode browser where players could create games in an editor.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  GAAS is a fucking scam. Stop playing this consumer abusing trash.

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are more or less preaching to the choir

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is even worse this is GAAP. Games as a platform like Roblox. So Fortnite is now filled with slop

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• NachBarcelona@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Epic fail.

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• Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So Fortnite is becoming Roblox…

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tim Sweeney really decided to lean in on this by defending the pedo AI gen bullshit on twitter

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• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All they have to do is disable games with mtx in the countries that ban it

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• JoshsJunkDrawer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meanwhile Tim Sweeney is defending pedophilia and genAI.

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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  • III@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh its true. It was always designed to get the money from the kids!

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• turkalino@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok thats actually funny to add $45 mtx. If people wanna spend money on a meme game like that who cares. If parents leave their card hooked up to their kids account thats on them.

    I dont see the issue here.

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Exploiting children isn’t funny. Stealing from fools is not ok. Having it be legal is not good for the health of society.

      Normalizing antisocial behavior is not a good thing

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  • Agent_Karyo@piefed.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve never played Fortnite, it’s a full loot game?

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    • turkalino@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Steal the Brainrot is a popular custom game within Fortnite

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    • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought it was a third person shooter with bafflingly shitty gunplay…I.guess things have changed since it came out.

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• Agent_Karyo@piefed.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Best option for non-US countries is to ban scrip currencies and illegal gambling.

  If the US 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 international waters.

  No sacred cows on this, should apply to Epic, Valve or whoever.

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• paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Those in the industry know that the guy running the content in question is just using the most profitable techniques available to him.

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