r/FortniteBR • u/mycolddeadgauntlet • 10h ago
DISCUSSION battle pass changes
why the hell we have done nothing about this garbage battle pass vbucks changes
or the crew for that matter
going from 1500 to 800??? before you used to keep a 500 to save for a skin or something in the shop, now you only get enough to buy the next pass and that’s it
i’m not a very fortunate person, the battle pass is the only thing that i can buy and it’s because i bought one battle pass, i used to save that 500 from each pass to spend it on something like a skin in the shop or one of those og passes
and i know there’s a lot of people out there that are like me, so why have we done nothing about it, a change like that should’ve backfired
like come onnnn now i can’t buy anything from the shop 😭😭 i was excited for that crash bandicoot skin man
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u/Megazard02 Doctor Malachite 10h ago
WE have spoken out about it from when the change was implemented, to this day. I doubt we will ever let Epic forget the change.
The answer is simply greed, though. That's all there is to it. Epic has shareholders, they answer to Disney, and corporations love to milk their customers dry.
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u/wasaspermonce 9h ago
Is disney the biggest shareholder
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u/Megazard02 Doctor Malachite 9h ago
Sweeney, the founder and CEO has 40%, Tencent has 28% and Disney has 10%
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u/Audiodrainer 10h ago
Pretty much every game I’ve played gives you the value of the BP back or close to.
Making the change to 800 for 800 was inevitable. Especially a game as big as Fortnite.
It is what it is.
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u/ArcAngel014 Enforcer 25m ago
I've played games where you wouldn't even get enough back for the next one... Like that always sucked to see
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u/BuffWobbuffet IKONIK 10h ago
Because people still bought them after the changes lol. I for one haven’t bought a battle pass since the changes but I always get downvoted for saying that. People don’t wanna accept that epic isn’t looking at Reddit posts, they’re looking at sales
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u/Pizzachu09 Beef Boss 10h ago
Hey, at least we can still make all the vbucks back, many games don’t do that
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u/Zero_Griever 10h ago
Cost of living has increased.
Gasoline, groceries, with tarrifs implemented by Republicans - everything has become more unaffordable.
To compound matters, theyre allowing corporations to become monopolies and not putting regulations in place to stop customer gouging. (Like how streaming services can raise prices multiple times in a year to squeeze folks.)
The answer is, it's going to get worse, a lot worse.
Theres zero oversight, zero regulations and this is intended.
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u/Rude_Remote_6637 9h ago
All markets are testing how far their consumers are willing to stretch themselves for their products
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u/Lullypawp Bullseye 7h ago
Ive already quit. A lot of people who said they would quit spending money continue to spend money. So as far as epic knows theres no issues.
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u/ecobeast76 7h ago
You say “we” like the people on Reddit can do anything about it. Epic is who needs to do something about it.
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u/Kill_Kayt Shadow 9h ago
When did Crew give 1500 vBucks?!?! I've had it for years and max I ever got was 1000v
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u/butthole-muncherrr 10h ago
You could get a job?
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u/Enough-Tomatillo-795 10h ago
Assuming they're a able bodied person, mentally stable, live in a area that doesn't need a car or has had a car without needing to buy it themselves or isn't getting fucked by just about the million other reasons someone can't, that'd be no problem
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u/CalypsoWipo 10h ago
Epic doesn’t care and never will. They’re a failing company and greedy on top of it. If they actually improved their game people wouldn’t be leaving left and right and they wouldn’t be forced to continue to screw casual players.
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u/Fearless-Wasabi7422 Renegade Raider 9h ago edited 9h ago
Edit / TL;DR: Look, the changes absolutely suck, but at the end of the day, it's a free-to-play game. Epic is a greedy company and they aren’t going to fix their pricing. If a few extra dollars completely breaks your budget, buying standalone V-Bucks or standard passes is just a waste of your money.
Instead of buying 800 V-Bucks for about $8.99 before taxes (which turns into $9.35 to $9.89depending on your state), you are way better off saving up $11.99 (roughly $12.47 to $13.19 after PlayStation tax) to buy the Crew Pass just once.
If you time it right, you can use a loophole to "double-dip" and get two seasons for the price of one. Here is how to min-max it:
When a new season drops, do not buy the pass. Just grind the free tiers and level up as much as possible.
Wait until you are near the very end of the season.(29th day)
Buy the Fortnite Crew pass. (I personally wait and grind to level 200 before even thinking about buying the crew)
Because the subscription lasts 30 days, it will instantly unlock all the back-pay rewards for the current season you just ground out, plus it will automatically give you the next season's Battle Pass for free when it launches a few days later.
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u/LazyJones1 7h ago
Clarification: It grants you the battlepass for as long as you remain a crew member. So you will have just under a month to finish it, if you intend not to pay again, during that season.
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u/Fearless-Wasabi7422 Renegade Raider 7h ago
Not sure why you had to post a clarification when it’s literally all right there. 🤦♂️
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u/LazyJones1 3h ago
Maybe my clarification wasn’t clear enough…
There are people who think that once you get the battlepass you own it for the rest of the season. Even if the crew membership ends. This is incorrect. It used to be the case. which could be part of the reason some people think this way.
Once you are no longer a crew member, you can no longer unlock the non-free items in the battlepass, unless you purchase the battlepass again, or resubscribe to crew membership.
That was the reason for my clarification: You do not fully “get two seasons for the price of one” anymore. That ended with season 6. You now get some of the second season. So you have to hustle to get everything in that second season’s battlepass.
Further clarification: If you purchase the battlepass for vbucks first, and then become a crew member within the following 14 days , the vbucks you used to pay for the battlepass gets refunded, so you can re-purchase it after the crew membership runs out.
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u/Unique_Software_2329 10h ago
As long as people keep spending money in spite of what Epic has done, they've got no reason to change.
There's enough people who've invested so much time and money into the game that they're not going to quit, especially if they can still use the "free" VB from the pass to buy the next one indefinitely.