Fortnite has been experiencing a renaissance lately, with the OG map drawing back a staggering 45 million players in a single day. However, that love streak seems set to end as Epic Games has unveiled a controversial new age-gating system. This system restricts cosmetics and even islands for minors, causing consternation among the game's massive, youthful community.
On the Fortnite blog, Epic announced the move, which will label player-created Fortnite islands (or experiences) with a specific rating, as well as each individual cosmetic item. Players attempting to use incompatible cosmetics will have them automatically replaced with default gear, causing consternation among those fans who paid for the privilege of wearing the piece with real money in the first place. According to Epic, this move is designed to "help parents and players make informed play decisions about the thousands of games and other experiences in Fortnite."
It's worth noting that Battle Royale and Zero Build, by far the game's most popular islands or experiences, are rated T for Teen, thus unaffected by cosmetic restrictions. Still, we could understand being irked by having paid for cosmetic gear and not being able to use it while exploring user-generated content.
What do you think of Epic's latest move? Are you bothered by the prospect, or does this seem like much ado about nothing? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source fortnite.com]
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Then bring on the 18+ skins 🤣 it’s only fair! Get some CyberPunk crossovers and don’t forget the weirdos that are into cartoon Anime byoobs!
But isn't the game still about shooting people with guns? Or are we replacing those with walkie talkies?
@Jayslow kids under 12 get water guns now and candy cigarettes
@WolfyTn which is 95% of their player base.
"But Muuum, Amy used MY Fortnite account & Vbucks to buy a Malibu Barbie skin,all my friends think it's ME!"😱
Mum: Be nice or no playstation for anyone for a,week!🙄😤🤣
While I see their best intentions. It's still baffling me
What's dumb is they're also age gating client side items like music and loading screens... Things other players don't interact with. It's moronic.
This type of censorship is idiotic and while I see their intent, it's not executed well at all.
At a base level, your restriction should not restrict MY experience. Not in a game built on shooting people in the face, no less.
It should be a parental setting on individual accounts that, when turned on, makes offensive skins look safe TO OTHERS if they have the option toggled on. But a player should wholeheartedly be able to use anything they want. ESPECIALLY when they paid for it.
I hope this means Fortnite just goes off the wall and adds the most repulsive characters possible to the game. I’m talking Nolan Nonce from The Last of Us, Frank from Blue Velvet, Dylan Baker in Happiness. Go full Rated R Superstar now that there’s age gating. You were killed by the super rare Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs in Basic Instinct skin.
@Jayslow Welcome to the West. Where murder and violence are fine but even the slightest bit of skin sets the whole community on fire.
This is a weird one, first of all it's a game about killing people with guns and explosives available to all ages, secondly children will still see these skins in game by other people equipping them and lastly I can't think of what an 16+/18+ skin would be, they wouldn't allow full nudity or gore so theres nothing 18+ they could do, worse they could do is have a bikini wearing character, even pokemon has those....
Lol 🤣 seriously back in the day we had up down left right r2 triangle etc that gave you a different skin , armour,guns now they want you to pay for it . another reason why I tell my nephew's don't bother with fortnight. I don't call this a game I like a plot ,lore antagonist protagonist etc this is nonsense to me.
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Quick question, i never played Fortnite, what is it that is not suitable for under 12 yo? Islands? Whats on those islands? And cosmetics? is there anything inapropriete? In a shooter game?
Sure, just refund the money if players can't use the cosmetics that they already bought before.
@LifeGirl That's true Japan is more with using kids in nasty things probably because the age of consent is 13 years untill it's changed at June 2023 to 16 years. I won't be surprised if some stuff will change there in the future and thats a good thing.
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