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.
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.
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
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.
Fortnite is turning into Roblox. You can now make games for Fortnite with Unreal Editor for Fortnite. This Steal the brain rot game is made by a third party dev.
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.
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’m sure someone did a risk analysis and determined that they’d make more money on this than they’d lost on being banned from other countries. Only time will tell if they were right.
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.
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 international waters.
No sacred cows on this, should apply to Epic, Valve or whoever.
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Don’t forget that while this is all happening, Tim Sweeney (Epic CEO) is actively defending child porn on X.
Epic fail.
Slammed!!!
Have journalists never heard of a thesaurus?
Can’t get sued for slammed because it means nothing.
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
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.
I’ve never played Fortnite, it’s a full loot game?
Steal the Brainrot is a popular custom game within Fortnite
I thought it was a third person shooter with bafflingly shitty gunplay…I.guess things have changed since it came out.
Fortnite is turning into Roblox. You can now make games for Fortnite with Unreal Editor for Fortnite. This Steal the brain rot game is made by a third party dev.
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
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!
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’m sure someone did a risk analysis and determined that they’d make more money on this than they’d lost on being banned from other countries. Only time will tell if they were right.
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.
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 international waters.
No sacred cows on this, should apply to Epic, Valve or whoever.