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Fascinating article. This opens my eyes to why my son gifted his classmate a $10 skin from his own pocket money for no special occasion - there was clearly far
by epaga 7y ago
Fascinating article.
This opens my eyes to why my son gifted his classmate a $10 skin from his own pocket money for no special occasion - there was clearly far more going on than I had realized.
Bullying is one way of handling "defaults" - generosity is another... and Epic Games makes boatloads of money either way.
- mcv 7y agoKinda sickening that bullying between kids is apparently a vital part of their monetisation strategy. Maybe everybody should get assigned a random unique skin, but if you pay you get the skin you want.
- cwkoss 7y agoNice idea, but people would repeatedly make free accounts until they got the skin they wanted.
- asdff 7y agoIs that a bad thing?
- p1necone 7y agoI highly doubt this was an intentional outcome. Multiplayer video games have had paid skins for years. Fortnite has just attracted way way way more young teens, and they're bullying each other because of differences as they always have. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't actually any more bullying going on because of Fortnite - it's just more obvious to people outside of the teenagers social sphere because of how wildly popular Fortnite is and how much media attention it's getting.
- asdff 7y agoYou should remind him of the legend of the No Skin Hero, who handily dismantles everyone who payed money on a free video game due to raw skill alone.