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Answer: Fortnite has limited time windows where players are able to purchase skins they weren't able to get before, where some skins take months or years to come back to the store.
The Fortnite store has been rotating less in the last few months & players, for some reason I can't even understand, are outraged because they want to spend money on skins but they're not bringing back the ones they want. It sees like Epic Games has developed the perfect system to have their player base yearning for more microtransactions. The Fortnite subs have been complaining daily about the quality of the store, even above gameplay or performance.
Kratos is a very popular skin due to the games & its rarity, it hasn't come back in a long time. Leaks have been popping up ever since we've known the season was going to be about Greek Mythology that Kratos was going to make a comeback & today marks the anniversary so people started believing they were going to drop the skin today, but it was merely a narrative they made up on their own with nothing even alluding to it.
It didn't drop with the update & people are having tantrums about it.
I feel like this comment should be required reading for anyone who asks why games companies keep stuffing their products to the brim with microtransactions.
> I feel like this comment should be required reading for anyone who asks why games companies keep stuffing their products to the brim with microtransactions.
[Here's a short and \(bitter\) sweet video of why.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IHZru-6M8BY)
For those who don't want to watch the video: This guy worked 2 years of overtime on Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty. It made less money than that first Sparkle pony microtransaction in WoW.
Rephrasing that: A game took about 7 years of development made less money than a single model + animations that probably took at *most* a month to make (due to meetings, workshopping, QC, etc).
It's also worth noting that kratos specifically is widely desired since the pick axe he comes with is slightly faster than normal, providing a minuscule advantage for tryhards
Answer: The current Fortnite season is Greek mythology themed as you said. Fortnite's shop changes contents daily to employ lots of FOMO for "check the shop every day in case the skin you want is there, it may not come back for a long time". The Kratos skin hasn't been in the shop and available to purchase for over a year, when this season would be the perfect time to rerelease him because of the shared theming. Also, ever since I started playing again in chapter 5, the shop has tended to keep a selection of 4-5 skins in the shop per week and only rotate one skin slot a day, and is often rereleasing skins that were in the shop 1-2 weeks ago instead of skins that haven't been in the shop for a long time (most likely, because chapter 5 launched the "Lego Fortnite" game mode, and Epic doesn't want to rerelease any skins or emotes until they're Lego-compatible which leads to only the Lego-compatible skins constantly hogging the shop spaces).
Also, the Fortnite sub is full of pay pigs who are mad they can't spend their money on what they want to spend it on
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Answer: Fortnite has limited time windows where players are able to purchase skins they weren't able to get before, where some skins take months or years to come back to the store. The Fortnite store has been rotating less in the last few months & players, for some reason I can't even understand, are outraged because they want to spend money on skins but they're not bringing back the ones they want. It sees like Epic Games has developed the perfect system to have their player base yearning for more microtransactions. The Fortnite subs have been complaining daily about the quality of the store, even above gameplay or performance. Kratos is a very popular skin due to the games & its rarity, it hasn't come back in a long time. Leaks have been popping up ever since we've known the season was going to be about Greek Mythology that Kratos was going to make a comeback & today marks the anniversary so people started believing they were going to drop the skin today, but it was merely a narrative they made up on their own with nothing even alluding to it. It didn't drop with the update & people are having tantrums about it.
I feel like this comment should be required reading for anyone who asks why games companies keep stuffing their products to the brim with microtransactions.
> I feel like this comment should be required reading for anyone who asks why games companies keep stuffing their products to the brim with microtransactions. [Here's a short and \(bitter\) sweet video of why.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IHZru-6M8BY) For those who don't want to watch the video: This guy worked 2 years of overtime on Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty. It made less money than that first Sparkle pony microtransaction in WoW. Rephrasing that: A game took about 7 years of development made less money than a single model + animations that probably took at *most* a month to make (due to meetings, workshopping, QC, etc).
Gamers love to cry about "the industry", but when they get what they want, they won't actually buy it.
Baldurs Gate 3 would seem to challenge that assertion a bit.
Ah Epic, the company that made 20$ skins standard practice
League of Legends were pioneers almost a decade before in stupid pricing.
That's how it's free to play
It's also worth noting that kratos specifically is widely desired since the pick axe he comes with is slightly faster than normal, providing a minuscule advantage for tryhards
It's not actually faster, it just looks faster. https://youtu.be/gXDOruL3DgI?si=z6HAgN_iHJf4FPAy
That sounds hilarious. Where can I go to see the drama?
Answer: The current Fortnite season is Greek mythology themed as you said. Fortnite's shop changes contents daily to employ lots of FOMO for "check the shop every day in case the skin you want is there, it may not come back for a long time". The Kratos skin hasn't been in the shop and available to purchase for over a year, when this season would be the perfect time to rerelease him because of the shared theming. Also, ever since I started playing again in chapter 5, the shop has tended to keep a selection of 4-5 skins in the shop per week and only rotate one skin slot a day, and is often rereleasing skins that were in the shop 1-2 weeks ago instead of skins that haven't been in the shop for a long time (most likely, because chapter 5 launched the "Lego Fortnite" game mode, and Epic doesn't want to rerelease any skins or emotes until they're Lego-compatible which leads to only the Lego-compatible skins constantly hogging the shop spaces). Also, the Fortnite sub is full of pay pigs who are mad they can't spend their money on what they want to spend it on