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Is this Fortnite? Can you win these points? Otherwise this legislation sort of defeats the purpose of having these points, I think.
That’s not a bad thing, obviously. I just wonder what they will come with next to obfuscate what you’re actually paying.
If you can buy a currency with real money they need to show this. In fortnite its not possible to win these coins (outside of battlepass rewards but these basically just refund your battlepass costs)
I understood this.
No idea why I got a downvote. My point is that these points in games primarily serve to obfuscate the actual price of things. That’s why there’s now legislation to prevent this. From the perspective of the devs (or whoever is responsible here), the points then lose their use, though. Unless they still have some other use.
The second effect is gained from having something cost 800V but only allowing you to buy packs of 1000V.
Then you end up with 200V burning in your pocket that you can't spend. So you buy another 1000V, spend another 800V and now you're stuck with 400V.
So instead of spending 7.5 euro for 800V you spent 40 euro for 4000V to get to an even 0V left.
In the EU, you also have to be able to buy exactly as much as you need
Interesting, these are the only options I get on epic store from Sweden
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As someone who's never touched Fortnite before I didn't find the right place to check. I can pay the exact purchase amount needed when checking out an item.
Is that when you pick a specific thing to buy?
There was one game I played where you could buy points ahead of time starting at 1000 for $10 and 2000 for $15 and so on but when you went to buy an item that was 800 points you could also buy it for $8. I think the 1000 for $10 was there to show the higher ones were a better 'deal' and if you did buy that way you had the 200 left over dark pattern.
This was in the US and it is the only game I remember doing it that way, and it was long enough ago that I don't remember which one it was.
You used to have to do that to buy indie games on the Xbox 360. And the points would expire if you didn't use them in time.
I don't think they understand that points can be purchased with money at different ratios or even acquired in game without spending money.
As long as they display the value based on the most expensive way to purchase the points I think it is a good think. Especially if you are buying at that time with cash for the points.
You get v bucks in the free battle pass as well.
While I'm sure it's done for the sake of maximum engagement\profit, your statement is not quite true. In v bucks terms, a season pass is 950, but you can usually get back around 1500 by getting to level 100 during the season.
You can also get like 400 a season without a battle pass. So if you played for a few seasons, you could get the battle pass for free as well. Then sometimes there's extra events and bonus v bucks you can earn and stuff. They figured out a long time ago they can make more money for the long term by staying the most popular, and the most popular means keep giving some shit away so it doesn't get old for the people who don't spend much, if any money. If they go away, then the people who do spend $$$ will end up moving on as well.
It should count as discounted, not "free money", because (aside from potential licensing costs) there's no big fixed expenses per-sale for these items
IIRC, the battle pass has some vbucks for free. Otherwise, Fortnite founders could earn vbucks in Save The World.
Now, I wonder what math they use to show the equivalent price given that you get more vbucks per euro with the more expensive packages. By the looks of it, they use the lowest package for the calculations.
EDIT: Still, the fact that you cant just buy it directly with currency sucks.
I think this is actually showing the price if you buy it directly with currency as another user mentioned that is am EU requirement.
That would mean you can spend 1000 points or pay 7.49
Nah, you need to buy vbucks. I checked.
As you can see I am missing 50 vbucks to get it and only got an option to buy vbucks and no direct option to purchase.
So just old German reload system
with new price display then? At least we all got this system now not just some countries
Your SS from ingame? Because did mine from the web shop and just redirects me straight to the vbucks page to buy.
I see you do have the option to buy the exact amount of vbucks you need , right?
I have that option on webstore too
Ah, okay, I see it on my end too. Maybe I just missed it. Thanks.
Well that sucks.
Yes, or you could just when I played. In fact you got enough points to pay for the battle pass the next season so in effect you paid once and then didn’t have to pay again if you didn’t buy cosmetics.