After laying off almost 900 employees, Epic Games has announced an expansion to the Fortnite V-Buck "pricing alignment", citing vague financial factors like "inflation and currency fluctuations". The price of Fortnite's premium currency is set to rise in various international markets, including the world's largest.
From 27th October, the price of V-Bucks and real money content packs offered by Epic Games will increase in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Eurozone countries, Hungary, Japan, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Turkey, and the United States (including all storefronts where the United States Dollar is used).
Raising the price of this fictitious currency was a success when the company trialled it in the UK, Canada, and Mexico, so much so it was thought now would be the optimal time to announce it for much of the rest of the world. In USD, these increases range from $1(1000 V-Bucks, previously $7.99) to $10 (13,500 V-Bucks, previously $79.99).
What do you think of Epic's timing and the proposed pricing increase? Consider the economy in the comments section below.
[source fortnite.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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It's like the entire 1% got together and went "Hey, why aren't the peasants paying us more? We want more money!" Thus every single commodity is going up in price.
Layoff 16% of your workforce and raise prices. Cool.
@NinjaNicky battle passes? I guess you should have enough at the end to buy it again though so theoretically should only buy it once
Epic need to pay for all those free games they're offering on their store somehow right?
Disclaimer: I've claimed my fair share of free games from the Epic Store.
@NinjaNicky "do people really spend $90 to get a few skins and dances?"
If you don't know the answer to this I'll inform you that it's a big fat YES.
And everyone can 'waste' their money as they see fit I guess. Also, this is what makes this game free to play for those of us who only plays it with the default skins and only pay for the beer or soda we drink when playing ...
Lmfao they fire nearly a thousand employees and increase the cost of their in game predation globally. Yah makes sense. Quality entity right there.
Certainly the model you should emulate sony👍👍👍
Didn't know that inflation hit video games currencies too... 🥲
@KundaliniRising333 SONY is trying! 12 GaaS in production... with how many? 5 of them already scratched? ...and 3 dead on arrival?
The Epic board doing a Bobby Kotick...those lawyers, new jacuzzi room & 2024 yacht's don't pay for themselves!🙄
It wouldn’t be so bad if the effort they put into Fortnite hadn’t fallen off a cliff in the last year or so. There’s no story anymore, there’s zero live events, the seasonal events are bare minimum.
Chapter 4 was the perfect opportunity for them to reboot the storyline but they did nothing for four seasons.
The gameplay is still fun (map changes are great too) but without a storyline, the seasons all blend into one another and it ends up feeling repetitive and stale. And now they say they’re putting even less effort into live events.
I’m still a fan of Fortnite but t’s so frustrating to see this game coasting along on autopilot. Whoever is running the show over at Epic Games isn’t doing a very good job.
Sounds like the good old "increase prices to keep shareholders happy" scheme.
They’re still gonna make a ton of money
The increase isn't too bad I guess, it's a free to play game so you don't have to spend anything to play it. I remember getting exclusive samsung galaxy note 9 skin when I bought the phone back then, play it a couple of times on note 9 and ps4, and never played the game again.
Even with this revenue it's probably not enough. I guess the the 13500 is now a €100? It's €90 I didn't see the image below I thought it was a add. 😅
I played a long time ago a s I sucked at it and the mode I was interested in was kinda dead.
First and foremost, it's never nice to hear people losing their jobs. I hope they all find something else in the industry.
That said, this is just the beginning of staff losses and price hikes. The generation of kids coming in now all have parents that are familiar with videogames and the F2P MXT models are going to fall off a cliff.
The 80s babies ain't letting their kids play this crap.
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