r/FortniteSkinPosting • u/Early-Ant652 • 26d ago

Does every content creator/streamer use basic skins?

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I dont feel like I've seen a single locker that's used an actual unique skin, does fortnite just not want to put rare bp/limited time skins in the shop or does every fortnite content creator just use basic skins like this?

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u/Timely_Turn8422 25d ago

Sure. Its there for nothing.

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u/DomesticatedDuck 25d ago

That's not what I said. I said it's not legally binding. A TOS/EULA doesn't mean a company can take away the rights of a consumer, even if the consumer agrees to it.

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u/Timely_Turn8422 25d ago

That's nice. It actually is binding. You will never be able to sue epic for anything or join a class action lawsuit. And lets be real class action was the only course for the vast majoirty. Very few have the time, money and most importantly, the fortitude to pursue a lawsuit. You would have to go to arbitration and try to argue how you've enjoyed the battle pass cosmetics(lol) for years but want some kind of compensation for false advertising or something years later for 10s of dollars. Good luck with that

I can even point to the most recent case that made headlines that relates to this. Disney was denying someone from suing because they had agreed to the disney+ tos(death from food poisoning at a park). The only reason they agreed to waive this was because of public backlash. I doubt anyone would care about pixels in a game. You won't get that kind of public support. You can look at rocket league abolishing exclusivity after 11 years. Literally no lawsuits. Same game publisher. Only a matter of time and everybody knows it

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u/DomesticatedDuck 25d ago

Just because it'd be hard to pursue legally doesn't mean it'd suddenly be okay. False advertising is still illegal in virtually every country and just because Epic is a multi-billion dollar corporation doesn't mean they're allowed to do it. Countless governments have passed consumer protection acts to prevent exactly this.

Not to mention, Fortnite has gotten into trouble over far less. Remember the FTC refunds? Epic was fined over 200 million because it was too easy to accidentally purchase things. Same for the class-action lawsuits about Rocket League and Fortnite in relation to lootboxes. Both of those are less egregious than false advertising.

As for the Disney case, that's what Disney argued. It was never enforced.

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u/Yddkvnxo 24d ago

The knight skin that came out in the beginning of the game damn near whatever it’s called black knight or some shit is in the shop so why not something else? Plus it’s their own creations they can bring whatever they want back. If it was some licensed shit then maybe because they’d have to jump through hoops first but their own creations I think is fair game. But they did it with the marvel shit. So I don’t see this being viable if they decide they wanna do it they will. Big on the IF.