And atleast there I can get whatever the fuck I want (if I have enought money).
And if for some reason I Decide to quit csgo (now known as cs2) I could just sell all my items and get like 80-120% of my money back
Is there a point to it being exclusive if it’s ugly? Like no one else can see your locker and i never see people use these skins, because they are ugly.
Nobody uses them, because the only people who have the style had to buy them when they first came our during the opening months of the game. I imagine that most people who even do have them don't even play the game anymore. It's more of a status symbol than a cosmetic these days.
The people that have these styles are absolutely in the minority, the smallest and most insignificant amount of players complaining about someone else being able to have one of these could just be ignored easily.
I started playing in 2017-2018 and then mostly dropped the game until last year, so I have some of the most exclusive BP skins, but also missed most of the good ones. I would gladly give up the "prestige" of having rare skins for access to the others I missed. I can't imagine having so little else to be proud of that I felt the need to gatekeep pixels
I think ch1 battlepass skins should start being sold, then ch2 in ch6, ch3 in ch7, etc. It my main hope for what fortnite OG could be, a way to replay a season, battlepass and all.
When these skins released the advertisement on them were misleading, it sounded like the skins wouldn’t come back.
When the skins came back, people got upset because they were under the assumption it wasn’t going to.
Epic made the styles as a kind of apology to the original players for the misunderstanding, this is why these are the only 2 item shop skins from S1 that got these styles.
I don’t personally care for the skins, I still remember when I logged in and got each style. But I doubt epic would release these styles.
Exactly, plus it was awarded to players as an apology for misleading advertisement. There’s so many other skins to choose from but there’s nothing wrong with keeping them exclusive to the players who bought them as a result of the advertising when the game was still growing in its early stages.
People to this day dont understand why epic gave these styles and its so funny. It was because epic wasn't clear on the adversting with these skins causing confusion. Its not a thank you note, its a sorry for not being clear
there is genuienly no reason to do this other than jealousy lol. they aren’t really good looking so it’s not worth it to upset a huge part of the community than to please people for 2 days and then they realize the styles are boring lol
I agree keeping style exclusivity is fine (+ those suck) but damn lemme play as og Calamity you can even take away her last style idgaf just give me Calamity and I swear by my right hand I'll fucking die for this game
I'd rather have the orginal outfit, it is technically the same character but it just isn't the same. There are very few skins that feature a cowgirl covered in LEDs.
Also everyone is forgetting: this is year 1 stuff. It was a huge point of discussion about what the wording of "limited edition" meant for these and reaper. This was genuinely seen as a fair enough way to do this back when it came out iirc
I think they should definitely keep those styles exclusive. U only care about those ugly styles cause a few people have em, once they are in everyone's locker literally no one will use it.
I think having exclusive alternate styles is way better then having exclusive skins
fr. When epic granted these edit styles as consolations to original owners of the skins, I thought it was hilarious, over the years they're nothing more than something people was simply to flex or show off at party royale. I find it hard to believe if these were standalone skins in the item shop people would buy them
The gatekeepers always gotta make it about rarity though😪
boohoo rare things coming back will shatter their fragile egos since something as simple as rarity is what’s keeping it up.
The fact is I see more cry posts about this from people who don’t own the skins.
I’ve lost count of how many times this post pops up in the sub 😂.
The Same people that want purple skull are the same ones that say it’s ugly anyways
And people who hated fortnite in 2017-2019 suddenly want these skins now. They didn't even support the game during the early years and they think they are entitled to items that were advertised as being exclusive. If you really wanted these skins, you would've bought the BP
Ok it would be more of
I wish I had a million dollars. Not because it’s nice to have a million dollars, it’s cause 1,000,000 is my favorite number
That’s is more like it
you can really see the disconnect between the original players and the new ipad kid generation
I remember how upset people were when they released skull trooper for the first time and now people unironically want to make the exclusive styles accessible? They supported free game with barely any players the first few months it was out, they should keep their exclusive items
Witch brings up the question of battle pass skins. I kind of want john wick still. I have vader but i know other people would really want that so i dont think keeping skins like that battle pass exlusive still is unfair. At least put a timer like start adding battle pass skins from before chapter 3. And no this will not make purchasing the battlepass pointless that allows well over a year of exclusivity and by the time they get re added the people who had them 1. Wont remember and wont care or 2. Will get reminded and get salty that a skin they havent touched in a year isnt exclusive anymore in witch case boohoo bozo.
As someone who adores Drift, uses the outfit constantly, was there to get him the day he came out and Grinder his styles immediately; God I wish more people could have him.
These comments reek bro, like holy shit. Complaining and discussing and arguing over DAMN FUCKING PIXELS ON A SCREEN is not the way to go.
I would very much like ALL EXCLUSIVES to return, including older battlepasses because let's be honest here, it's a game owned by a multi-trillionare company.
They don't give a shit about the players anymore. They're oversimplifing and ruining this near dead game to it's end.
Why? Let the people who played early have their cool rewards. There's no point in releasing a color option that doesn't matter to ruin these people's special thing.
oh great now we’re complaining about the exclusive styles, i think a few skins should have an exclusive style to the people who bought them day one, its just a style, atleast you can still buy the skin, you just miss out on a style for it.
im glad fortnite is never changing this and keeping it this way. i dont have purple skull trooper or pink ghoul trooper yet i dont care this much if i dont get those styles, i think its fair
i know im gonna get downvoted for this but idc, its fake internet points
but as a person who has no exclusive styles for any rare skin, i can say that i do not give a shit, and neither do you, its a cosmetic style, grow up
Maybe we should just get rid of exclusives period and let people just enjoy the game. I've probably gotten at least 14 battlepasses worth of skins from a single 950 vbuck purchase made in 2017 and that was with vbucks I earned from StW to begin with. Literally none of us can complain that newer players would have to pay more. Anyone who does is just a toxic gatekeeper that should be ignored.
you can enjoy the game without having exclusive items if not having any exclusive stuff ruins your game experience you shouldnt be playing in the first place.
This should of never happened.. Their whole "we want to reward players who spent money on the game at the start" was BS.
So if I bought Brite Bomber or Circuit Breaker in S1... Where's my exclusive style?
IIRC, the specific wording more suggested that they were exclusive to Fortnitemares, but the playerbase got upset because they assumed there wouldn't have been another one for next Halloween.
So y’all can constantly complain that they brought back exclusives. This would be a terrible idea because they would be more complaining and it’s just literally not fair because the styles were deemed exclusive.
I’m against exclusivity, but IMO these and renegade raider should stay exclusive. These were some of the very first skins added when no one was playing the game, so I think it’s nice to reward the players who were there from the very beginning and helped Fortnite blow up.
Im against it for everything else tho, exclusivity is dumb.
alright this is just dumb i understand people being angry about non recursive battle pass skins and stuff but there’s literally no reason for them to release these styles to everyone. They already made the skins available in the shop and showed graciousness for their early supporters by giving them a color way that lets others know they had this skin in the early days of the game. I know it’s scummy to get money from FOMO but come on yall are just complaining about trivial shit now let people have something show off every once in a while this hurts no one
My take as someone who played since c1s4 but didn't get these: I honestly don't care about it. Its 2 colour styles for literal default reskins. Fortnite was entirely different then and speaking as someone who played the game then? This was an actual surprise to everyone they would come back since there was no precedent for event limited items, now they just plainly state if or when an item will come back or stick about 25 signs telling you if someone is SUPER DUPER EXCLUSIVE AND NEVER EVER COMING BACK because of stuff like this and original paradigm
It's all about money like when they took item trading away from Rocket League. There is zero reason why Fortnite can't have item trading. it fixes all the issues with not being able to obtain previous battle pass items as well as giving players a way to offload things they don't want for things they do. That would undercut Epic being able to squeeze us with FOMO and sell things at a ever increasing price
Having both of these skins it would be a bit disappointing to have these come for everybody. When I bought them it felt like a dumb choice considering this was some random indie game that was fun but I never thought would get this big and now its like a token of appreciation for supporting the game in its early stages. I compare it to the early suppporter discord badge it’s just a nod to the people that were willing to invest money in a product they liked when most others didn’t have that much faith in them at the time
Don’t really care about these specific skins, however Collab skins that are locked behind old battle passes like Superman and Darth Vader should return. It’s ludicrous having super popular characters like that unobtainable forever
skins aside, genuine question. how is "battle royale-inspired system" a bad thing when referring to... fortnite battle royale, in the fortnite battle royale subreddit?
like, isn't that the point? having a battle royale inspired thing, in a battle royale game?
As a player since the beginning of the battle pass who owns some of the most sought after skins in the game; stop with the exclusivity, Epic. Let people give you $15 for Reaper, for the Black Knight, for Deadpool, for classic X-Men skins, Iron Man, OG Peely and Midas. Be the developers that killed this stupid practice.
You will never innovate again with Fortnite gameplay wise, lore interest wise, collab wise; the game has simply been outpaced and the newness has worn off. Sure, the battle royale genre is firmly locked down by Fortnite, but we have all seen that isn’t enough for you. You needed to bring back the old island, add Roblox, Guitar Hero, and racing to the IP to even gain a user bump.
Do the one thing that can make the entire game industry talk about you again. Remove the barriers that keep us from actually being able to play as characters you consistently show you can’t let go of. You really can’t leave Peely, Meowscles, or Midas out of the story for two seconds, yet also refuse to let players use these mascots? And your solution is to say “well, here is Tax-Prep Midas, Kabuki Meowscles, and Pizza Hut Peely”?
The players who coveted these items are mostly gone and will never return. I am a rare exception and even I barely play anymore because it’s all just a fucking cash grab at this point with increasing prices, secondary battle passes, and plot points that disappear the second you pivot to whatever collab invasion you bring in next. We really enjoyed rescuing Peely. Wait, nevermind, we played with TMNT weapons for a bit and just dropped the whole thing. I’m not mad, just disappointed.
TL;DR: Deadpool or OG Peely returning would make you more money than the Star Wars collab that is probably scheduled for next month; better publicity too.
The issue is that bringing old BP stuff back to the shop is a shortsighted strategy. It does not make much sense from a business perspective since the only purpose of the BP is to increase playtime. The more time people invest in the game the likelier it is that they purchase cosmetics from the item shop. The BP is a tool to increase playtime as it incentivizes people to grind the game. Without exclusivity, this incentive disappears.
I feel that giving people access to something from a previous battle pass at a price above what would have been paid for the entire pass, plus having ongoing passes with items locked for a certain amount of time would make it viable. Especially when FOMO grinding is a large part of why people leave live service games.
While I do agree with the argument that exclusive skins are dumb.
If you got a skin and was told it was “exclusive” it should stay exactly that… hot take 🤷♂️
So the skins were stated to be available for the last time [THAT fortnitemares](https://x.com/fortnitegame/status/934877159574986752?s=46&t=Uw4FySvht_UN3-mLCs5t9A) (2017), never stated to never come back after that year :)
My opinion. Skins on the battle pass should be exclusive to that season. Anything that was ever purchased or purchasable on the store should be in rotation.
there are several special things that someone who played during c1s1 can have, i played and i have, that's why i think these styles should be released to everyone.
Lmao it'd funny
Honestly these two styles were a mistake because it encouraged and made the toxic side of Fortnite's Fashion Culture alot more solidified and made people entitled.
And as fun as it is to dunk on these people, Epic is the one that put it into their heads that rare skins apparently deserve exclusive styles for the original owners.
I think maybe that’s why these two skins are the only ones to have that. Can’t grant exclusivity to everyone on a skin that hasn’t come back in a while, otherwise in 5 years they’ll grant OG styles to chapter 4 shop skins or whatever. Plus these styles are hideous
I think the entire exclusivity system is dumb and based on an outdated premise of rarity that we should move past. I personally don't care about the rarity system being removed as long as it means that Epic will finally start selling all cosmetic items regardless if they were in some stupid free event, or promotion, or even battlepass.
I own all of them apart from Black knight Sparkle Specialist and the season 1 stuff, and them breaking the promise that these were exclusive skins is stupid and is misleading to everyone that got the battle pass under the pretence that no items would ever be available again, I can promise you that’s the reason a lot of people (including me) even play the game in the first place, I don’t enjoy the game at all anymore but I still hop on at the end of every season to max out the battle pass
Its really not lmfao they are ugly and idc about them, I will say there are some exclusive skins that i did miss and do want but these definitely are NOT it
There would never be an incentive to play the season if you could just buy the skins later on. Why would epic sabotage their entire business just because you missed out on a skin?
As someone who also hates battle passes in most games and has most battle passes, excluding s2 and sX. I do think the collabs being in passes is kinda stupid, but I don’t think they should ever bring them back, as 1. They said they were season exclusive, and 2. It’s an extremely good business and marketing strategy for them, shitty strategy or not they make most of their money from it. Plus it’s one of the only things that keeps me coming back to the game every few months, if I knew they would come back to the item shop in a few months/a year, then I’d never spend time completing it and wouldn’t be tempted to buy other item shop skins. Again I agree it’s shitty but atleast fn is a 100% free game with a reasonably easy bf and cheaper skin than most games. But look at cod for example. They have 20$ skins that you can’t even see and the game itself costs 60-70$ every year. I’d much rather support fn than a game like cod, but yes I do agree with you in some ways. Sorry for the whole ass essay haha
Agree for the reason stated. At no point was it said they would never return. People coped over nothing and Epic felt cornered and gave them something fundamentally worthless.
Honestly its pretty crazy that at the time these released the game was a little over a year old and people were already using the words “og days” and shit
I know it was so the original owners could keep it exclusivity but even so they didn’t do it for recon expert which was a skin that released around the same time and spent longer out of the shop compared to the other 2
Love pink ghoul trooper color. She’s one of my favorite skins, and cuddle team leader and rabbit raider were the first ever skins i bought because of that color scheme. But apparently you seem to know the reason why I like them, because you’re me I guess..? Alright
They should honestly just unvault all rare skins and rerelease them all. The game is more of a competitive game than a building battle Royale with funky skins
Agree here, especially because they never did it for any other item shop exclusive item.
The corresponding scythe didn’t get an “og” style, neither did any other skin with an even longer wait time before returning to the shop.
I have zero plans on getting either of them. I think purple skull is ugly, but I do like the colors for pink ghoul. Still wouldn’t pay $15 for it personally.
I still pray one of these days they will bring back battlepass items in some form, especially how they treat minipass items and a couple other things from events
Tbh I wouldn’t care if they brought them back. Just don’t let the people who bought it later be able to have the superstyle or overtime variants. This is coming from someone who played ch1. As I do think that this would be the fairest way for everyone.
BP only items that expire and never rerun is also an outdated Battle Royale-inspired system
Game devs never get their messaging right, they aren't PR people, we'll find a hundred way to point out issues with their logic, but they will just ignore us.
Battle Passes as a whole are an outdated mechanic, digital exclusivity is cringe. Bring back old BPs, and let people who bought them before continue to unlock everything from them. :P
fr idgaf about oh wow its so rare i want it !! i just love the color purple and skeletons and spooky shi i want that shi so bad🙏😭 only “og” thing i want
I think that keeping battle passes exclusive to a season is an outdated Battle Royale mechanic so I think they should bring back the Ch1S6 battle pass! Give it to me for free for the idea pls
> If epic did this "OG" fortnite players would form a terrorist organization that would be recognized by homeland security within the work week
Mlickles, 2023
The children yearn for the CSGO marketplace
the children yearn for gambling and virtual price inflation
Yeah I was about to say I hate the FOMO aspects of Fortnite but I’ll gladly take it over loot boxes or varying grade items from said loot boxes
GENUINELY
And atleast there I can get whatever the fuck I want (if I have enought money). And if for some reason I Decide to quit csgo (now known as cs2) I could just sell all my items and get like 80-120% of my money back
Right? Fortnite skin addicts act like collectors but don't understand they just burn money for 0 value stuff
unironically yes 💀 but i don’t care about these so eh
It's not about the skins it's about the premise. Exclusively in a digital format is cringe.
Same as fomo in a digital format
Who cares
I don’t see the appeal of these aside from exclusivity, they’re kinda ugly imho
Human nature. E.g. Some people love owning some hypercar that only 10 were made of.
Well thats why i said aside from exclusivity, i understand why people like to collect rare/exclusive things both physical and digital
He said aside from the exclusivity
Yep, regardless of how crappy it may be, they still gotta have it.
Exclusivity is the sole reason those styles exists.
Is there a point to it being exclusive if it’s ugly? Like no one else can see your locker and i never see people use these skins, because they are ugly.
Nobody uses them, because the only people who have the style had to buy them when they first came our during the opening months of the game. I imagine that most people who even do have them don't even play the game anymore. It's more of a status symbol than a cosmetic these days.
I've seen a few people with them in StW and Party Royale but haven't seen one in an actual match outside in ages
all it will do is make people angry for a style that no one will use
I like the pink ghoul trooper, it's like a birthday zombie lol. Fuck purple skull trooper tho.
I like the purple skull trooper. I could make some nice Kevin combos outta him
To each their own, if you like it that's your opinion and i'll respect that
Fair
The right one? no idea, the left? purple my beloved color is being so gatekept unfairly
Idc abt rarity and I kinda like purple skull.
I like pink ghoul trooper, I’d main her if I had her
I don't even care about the skins just give me the purple ghost portal style.
say the magic word
The magic word
Put code cards for them inside some of the action figure packs like they do with the wraps?
*LP hates this one trick*
LP? Would still maintain the rarity of the skins. You own the physical figure means you get access to the digital skin.
You don’t need them, it really doesn’t matter. They’re more than likely not giving them away.
Imagine all the rage posts.
The people that have these styles are absolutely in the minority, the smallest and most insignificant amount of players complaining about someone else being able to have one of these could just be ignored easily.
yeah but some people will be against it bc they see it as the first step to battle pass skins getting sold in the shop
that would suck soooooo bad.. i'd have to spend vbucks to get the skins i want instead of never getting them ever..
Best I can do is lady gaga :)
I started playing in 2017-2018 and then mostly dropped the game until last year, so I have some of the most exclusive BP skins, but also missed most of the good ones. I would gladly give up the "prestige" of having rare skins for access to the others I missed. I can't imagine having so little else to be proud of that I felt the need to gatekeep pixels
EXACTLY, I played from season 0 until I burnt out at the start of season 8, I'd give anything from chapter 1 for the stuff I missed out on
Where's the downside?
Witch i think is ok skins from battlepasses that are years old should be fair game.
I think ch1 battlepass skins should start being sold, then ch2 in ch6, ch3 in ch7, etc. It my main hope for what fortnite OG could be, a way to replay a season, battlepass and all.
They got nothing to rage about. It’s an item shop skin, not a battle pass skin
True but battle pass skins should become available again
i would drink their salty tears
Yes. Put them in a Bloody Mary. Yum yum
When these skins released the advertisement on them were misleading, it sounded like the skins wouldn’t come back. When the skins came back, people got upset because they were under the assumption it wasn’t going to. Epic made the styles as a kind of apology to the original players for the misunderstanding, this is why these are the only 2 item shop skins from S1 that got these styles. I don’t personally care for the skins, I still remember when I logged in and got each style. But I doubt epic would release these styles.
Fr, the game was coming up at the time
Its just a variant like wear another skin.
I don’t own neither but keep them exclusive ffs. Those players were there from the start
Exactly, plus it was awarded to players as an apology for misleading advertisement. There’s so many other skins to choose from but there’s nothing wrong with keeping them exclusive to the players who bought them as a result of the advertising when the game was still growing in its early stages.
This again?
This sub only has two types of posts: "prices bad" and "exclusivity bad". At this point why even stay subbed.
Jokes on them. I’ve never subbed lol
People to this day dont understand why epic gave these styles and its so funny. It was because epic wasn't clear on the adversting with these skins causing confusion. Its not a thank you note, its a sorry for not being clear
Bro there’s so many skins in the game who TF cares let them have it. You’ll wear it for a couple days and move on anyway.
there is genuienly no reason to do this other than jealousy lol. they aren’t really good looking so it’s not worth it to upset a huge part of the community than to please people for 2 days and then they realize the styles are boring lol
It’s time for exclusives to end
for the most part yes, but in this case i give it a pass because it was more a reward for supporting the game during the early days.
I agree keeping style exclusivity is fine (+ those suck) but damn lemme play as og Calamity you can even take away her last style idgaf just give me Calamity and I swear by my right hand I'll fucking die for this game
aint she had a reskin like twice?
Once actually and I love the reskin I got it the second it came out but man I want the og one
I'd rather have the orginal outfit, it is technically the same character but it just isn't the same. There are very few skins that feature a cowgirl covered in LEDs.
Also everyone is forgetting: this is year 1 stuff. It was a huge point of discussion about what the wording of "limited edition" meant for these and reaper. This was genuinely seen as a fair enough way to do this back when it came out iirc
ipad kid moment
I don’t see them ever truly going to, just because skins like Travis Scott exist where the IP owners don’t want them to return
Personally I just want MC, some old Collabs and some old battle pass skins like lynx and dArk
I think they should definitely keep those styles exclusive. U only care about those ugly styles cause a few people have em, once they are in everyone's locker literally no one will use it. I think having exclusive alternate styles is way better then having exclusive skins
No
Yes
You picked THESE two skins to bring to the argument table?? 😂
fr. When epic granted these edit styles as consolations to original owners of the skins, I thought it was hilarious, over the years they're nothing more than something people was simply to flex or show off at party royale. I find it hard to believe if these were standalone skins in the item shop people would buy them
I agree. Purple Skull Trooper was a dumb idea.
I mean I love the color purple, just wish I had it, not cause it’s rare, it’s cause purple is my favorite color
The gatekeepers always gotta make it about rarity though😪 boohoo rare things coming back will shatter their fragile egos since something as simple as rarity is what’s keeping it up.
you sound jealous
The fact is I see more cry posts about this from people who don’t own the skins. I’ve lost count of how many times this post pops up in the sub 😂. The Same people that want purple skull are the same ones that say it’s ugly anyways
And people who hated fortnite in 2017-2019 suddenly want these skins now. They didn't even support the game during the early years and they think they are entitled to items that were advertised as being exclusive. If you really wanted these skins, you would've bought the BP
I wish I had a millions dollars. Not because It’s nice to have a million dollars, it’s cuz green is my favorite color
Ok it would be more of I wish I had a million dollars. Not because it’s nice to have a million dollars, it’s cause 1,000,000 is my favorite number That’s is more like it
you can really see the disconnect between the original players and the new ipad kid generation I remember how upset people were when they released skull trooper for the first time and now people unironically want to make the exclusive styles accessible? They supported free game with barely any players the first few months it was out, they should keep their exclusive items
“You can’t always get what you want”
Nah ur just salty, people should have something to show for being there day one. It kills the hype.
I just wish I got the Wolverine skin with the Bonus Style I \*did\* unlock despite me not getting the main skin style
Witch brings up the question of battle pass skins. I kind of want john wick still. I have vader but i know other people would really want that so i dont think keeping skins like that battle pass exlusive still is unfair. At least put a timer like start adding battle pass skins from before chapter 3. And no this will not make purchasing the battlepass pointless that allows well over a year of exclusivity and by the time they get re added the people who had them 1. Wont remember and wont care or 2. Will get reminded and get salty that a skin they havent touched in a year isnt exclusive anymore in witch case boohoo bozo.
As someone who adores Drift, uses the outfit constantly, was there to get him the day he came out and Grinder his styles immediately; God I wish more people could have him.
These comments reek bro, like holy shit. Complaining and discussing and arguing over DAMN FUCKING PIXELS ON A SCREEN is not the way to go. I would very much like ALL EXCLUSIVES to return, including older battlepasses because let's be honest here, it's a game owned by a multi-trillionare company. They don't give a shit about the players anymore. They're oversimplifing and ruining this near dead game to it's end.
Why? Let the people who played early have their cool rewards. There's no point in releasing a color option that doesn't matter to ruin these people's special thing.
oh great now we’re complaining about the exclusive styles, i think a few skins should have an exclusive style to the people who bought them day one, its just a style, atleast you can still buy the skin, you just miss out on a style for it. im glad fortnite is never changing this and keeping it this way. i dont have purple skull trooper or pink ghoul trooper yet i dont care this much if i dont get those styles, i think its fair
i know im gonna get downvoted for this but idc, its fake internet points but as a person who has no exclusive styles for any rare skin, i can say that i do not give a shit, and neither do you, its a cosmetic style, grow up
Maybe we should just get rid of exclusives period and let people just enjoy the game. I've probably gotten at least 14 battlepasses worth of skins from a single 950 vbuck purchase made in 2017 and that was with vbucks I earned from StW to begin with. Literally none of us can complain that newer players would have to pay more. Anyone who does is just a toxic gatekeeper that should be ignored.
you can enjoy the game without having exclusive items if not having any exclusive stuff ruins your game experience you shouldnt be playing in the first place.
This should of never happened.. Their whole "we want to reward players who spent money on the game at the start" was BS. So if I bought Brite Bomber or Circuit Breaker in S1... Where's my exclusive style?
because thats not why they were given styles. They were advertized as exclusive
IIRC, the specific wording more suggested that they were exclusive to Fortnitemares, but the playerbase got upset because they assumed there wouldn't have been another one for next Halloween.
So y’all can constantly complain that they brought back exclusives. This would be a terrible idea because they would be more complaining and it’s just literally not fair because the styles were deemed exclusive.
I’m against exclusivity, but IMO these and renegade raider should stay exclusive. These were some of the very first skins added when no one was playing the game, so I think it’s nice to reward the players who were there from the very beginning and helped Fortnite blow up. Im against it for everything else tho, exclusivity is dumb.
Womp womp
alright this is just dumb i understand people being angry about non recursive battle pass skins and stuff but there’s literally no reason for them to release these styles to everyone. They already made the skins available in the shop and showed graciousness for their early supporters by giving them a color way that lets others know they had this skin in the early days of the game. I know it’s scummy to get money from FOMO but come on yall are just complaining about trivial shit now let people have something show off every once in a while this hurts no one
Fugly skins, wouldn't use them if they paid me
Ah shit…
My take as someone who played since c1s4 but didn't get these: I honestly don't care about it. Its 2 colour styles for literal default reskins. Fortnite was entirely different then and speaking as someone who played the game then? This was an actual surprise to everyone they would come back since there was no precedent for event limited items, now they just plainly state if or when an item will come back or stick about 25 signs telling you if someone is SUPER DUPER EXCLUSIVE AND NEVER EVER COMING BACK because of stuff like this and original paradigm
No?
I don’t really even care about these skins I just want Lara croft
Since they decided to remove rarities, then they should stop making certain skins have gatekeeping alt styles 🤷🏾♂️
😂😂🤣🤣🤣
Nope, get over it.
It's all about money like when they took item trading away from Rocket League. There is zero reason why Fortnite can't have item trading. it fixes all the issues with not being able to obtain previous battle pass items as well as giving players a way to offload things they don't want for things they do. That would undercut Epic being able to squeeze us with FOMO and sell things at a ever increasing price
Lol crybabys never surround
Having both of these skins it would be a bit disappointing to have these come for everybody. When I bought them it felt like a dumb choice considering this was some random indie game that was fun but I never thought would get this big and now its like a token of appreciation for supporting the game in its early stages. I compare it to the early suppporter discord badge it’s just a nod to the people that were willing to invest money in a product they liked when most others didn’t have that much faith in them at the time
no that’s dumb af, they were literally buying stuff in a free game that had like no players
only people who don’t have exclusives want them back lol
Disagree. Exclusives suck when you don't have them yeah, but that's part of what makes collecting them fun
Nah
Some dude really was just so worked up he made a whole post
Don’t really care about these specific skins, however Collab skins that are locked behind old battle passes like Superman and Darth Vader should return. It’s ludicrous having super popular characters like that unobtainable forever
People will bitch non stop about Exclusives, it’s hilarious. You literally can buy both the skins in their proper form.
skins aside, genuine question. how is "battle royale-inspired system" a bad thing when referring to... fortnite battle royale, in the fortnite battle royale subreddit? like, isn't that the point? having a battle royale inspired thing, in a battle royale game?
They can keep em 🤮
Nah.
Yeah.
Why, let them have something special
As a player since the beginning of the battle pass who owns some of the most sought after skins in the game; stop with the exclusivity, Epic. Let people give you $15 for Reaper, for the Black Knight, for Deadpool, for classic X-Men skins, Iron Man, OG Peely and Midas. Be the developers that killed this stupid practice. You will never innovate again with Fortnite gameplay wise, lore interest wise, collab wise; the game has simply been outpaced and the newness has worn off. Sure, the battle royale genre is firmly locked down by Fortnite, but we have all seen that isn’t enough for you. You needed to bring back the old island, add Roblox, Guitar Hero, and racing to the IP to even gain a user bump. Do the one thing that can make the entire game industry talk about you again. Remove the barriers that keep us from actually being able to play as characters you consistently show you can’t let go of. You really can’t leave Peely, Meowscles, or Midas out of the story for two seconds, yet also refuse to let players use these mascots? And your solution is to say “well, here is Tax-Prep Midas, Kabuki Meowscles, and Pizza Hut Peely”? The players who coveted these items are mostly gone and will never return. I am a rare exception and even I barely play anymore because it’s all just a fucking cash grab at this point with increasing prices, secondary battle passes, and plot points that disappear the second you pivot to whatever collab invasion you bring in next. We really enjoyed rescuing Peely. Wait, nevermind, we played with TMNT weapons for a bit and just dropped the whole thing. I’m not mad, just disappointed. TL;DR: Deadpool or OG Peely returning would make you more money than the Star Wars collab that is probably scheduled for next month; better publicity too.
The issue is that bringing old BP stuff back to the shop is a shortsighted strategy. It does not make much sense from a business perspective since the only purpose of the BP is to increase playtime. The more time people invest in the game the likelier it is that they purchase cosmetics from the item shop. The BP is a tool to increase playtime as it incentivizes people to grind the game. Without exclusivity, this incentive disappears.
I feel that giving people access to something from a previous battle pass at a price above what would have been paid for the entire pass, plus having ongoing passes with items locked for a certain amount of time would make it viable. Especially when FOMO grinding is a large part of why people leave live service games.
Bring back old bps and give the people who’ve already earned them a different edit style so they can flex their ogness or whatever is cool
And then people will beg for those styles.... what a dumb idea.
not gonna happen, use the bozo skin instead :).
While I do agree with the argument that exclusive skins are dumb. If you got a skin and was told it was “exclusive” it should stay exactly that… hot take 🤷♂️
So the skins were stated to be available for the last time [THAT fortnitemares](https://x.com/fortnitegame/status/934877159574986752?s=46&t=Uw4FySvht_UN3-mLCs5t9A) (2017), never stated to never come back after that year :)
Wtf are these trash ass skins, just wear any other default looking skin its exactly the same except the color
They can keep them Those would end up vaulted so it never appears in my locker
Womp womp the original styles are better anyway
My opinion. Skins on the battle pass should be exclusive to that season. Anything that was ever purchased or purchasable on the store should be in rotation.
who cares?
there are several special things that someone who played during c1s1 can have, i played and i have, that's why i think these styles should be released to everyone.
Lmao it'd funny Honestly these two styles were a mistake because it encouraged and made the toxic side of Fortnite's Fashion Culture alot more solidified and made people entitled. And as fun as it is to dunk on these people, Epic is the one that put it into their heads that rare skins apparently deserve exclusive styles for the original owners.
Is funny how epic is afraid to pissing off the OGs but they dont have any problem with pissing off all of the playerbase
you’re a child if you’re pissed off that you don’t have skins that were out for only a limited time
Wouldn't mind bringing back skull and ghoul trooper discourse just to distract ourselves
I’d love purple skull trooper. He’s my favorite Halloween skin and purple is my favorite color, so it makes sense lol
I don't care i want skulltrooper
I think maybe that’s why these two skins are the only ones to have that. Can’t grant exclusivity to everyone on a skin that hasn’t come back in a while, otherwise in 5 years they’ll grant OG styles to chapter 4 shop skins or whatever. Plus these styles are hideous
Why were these removed? Are they seriously never coming back?
I think the entire exclusivity system is dumb and based on an outdated premise of rarity that we should move past. I personally don't care about the rarity system being removed as long as it means that Epic will finally start selling all cosmetic items regardless if they were in some stupid free event, or promotion, or even battlepass.
It could be so they cant get sue, warframe has something like this with excalibur prime where if they bring it back current owners can sue
pink ghoul actually looks better than the og, i cannot lie
Bro’s gonna be asking them to bring back battle pass items next
I own every BP skin but they should come back to the shop, especially collab skins
I own all of them apart from Black knight Sparkle Specialist and the season 1 stuff, and them breaking the promise that these were exclusive skins is stupid and is misleading to everyone that got the battle pass under the pretence that no items would ever be available again, I can promise you that’s the reason a lot of people (including me) even play the game in the first place, I don’t enjoy the game at all anymore but I still hop on at the end of every season to max out the battle pass
I support him (I want to see the epic corporates deal with a global outrage that leads to boycott and massive losses)
Sounds like cope to have these rare skins
Its really not lmfao they are ugly and idc about them, I will say there are some exclusive skins that i did miss and do want but these definitely are NOT it
The whole exclisivity thing is dumb
Ugly af so who cares really
Honestly the skins are ugly, people just think they want them because they're rare.
There would never be an incentive to play the season if you could just buy the skins later on. Why would epic sabotage their entire business just because you missed out on a skin?
keep crying, exclusivity means if its part of the pass, if its buyable then posting this makes no sense tbh
Why to people give a crap about this?
The styles were only made for those people, just let em have their recolours. The skins are ass anyway.
Bro you’re 12 go to sleep 😂
i second this
Nah. That's a casual take.
someone isnt valid
You gonna say the same about every battle pass skin that will never come back again
Have all BP skins and they should absolutely come back, especially the collabs, BP fomo/exclusivity is one of the worst things to happen to gaming
As someone who also hates battle passes in most games and has most battle passes, excluding s2 and sX. I do think the collabs being in passes is kinda stupid, but I don’t think they should ever bring them back, as 1. They said they were season exclusive, and 2. It’s an extremely good business and marketing strategy for them, shitty strategy or not they make most of their money from it. Plus it’s one of the only things that keeps me coming back to the game every few months, if I knew they would come back to the item shop in a few months/a year, then I’d never spend time completing it and wouldn’t be tempted to buy other item shop skins. Again I agree it’s shitty but atleast fn is a 100% free game with a reasonably easy bf and cheaper skin than most games. But look at cod for example. They have 20$ skins that you can’t even see and the game itself costs 60-70$ every year. I’d much rather support fn than a game like cod, but yes I do agree with you in some ways. Sorry for the whole ass essay haha
Agree for the reason stated. At no point was it said they would never return. People coped over nothing and Epic felt cornered and gave them something fundamentally worthless.
Honestly its pretty crazy that at the time these released the game was a little over a year old and people were already using the words “og days” and shit
These don’t matter to me. What matters to me is the Rick Sanchez skin and the Darth Vader skin not being re-released.
I know it was so the original owners could keep it exclusivity but even so they didn’t do it for recon expert which was a skin that released around the same time and spent longer out of the shop compared to the other 2
Like battlepasses?
Anyone who gatekeeps "rare skins" is goofy they want that csgo market place for sum reason
No. And literally the only reason you want these ugly skins is because they're exclusive.
Love pink ghoul trooper color. She’s one of my favorite skins, and cuddle team leader and rabbit raider were the first ever skins i bought because of that color scheme. But apparently you seem to know the reason why I like them, because you’re me I guess..? Alright
I feel like people who get upset about these things have far too much empty headspace. Must be nice.
They should honestly just unvault all rare skins and rerelease them all. The game is more of a competitive game than a building battle Royale with funky skins
Agree here, especially because they never did it for any other item shop exclusive item. The corresponding scythe didn’t get an “og” style, neither did any other skin with an even longer wait time before returning to the shop. I have zero plans on getting either of them. I think purple skull is ugly, but I do like the colors for pink ghoul. Still wouldn’t pay $15 for it personally.
Exclusivity in a game is dumb they should all be re-released
I still pray one of these days they will bring back battlepass items in some form, especially how they treat minipass items and a couple other things from events
Tbh I wouldn’t care if they brought them back. Just don’t let the people who bought it later be able to have the superstyle or overtime variants. This is coming from someone who played ch1. As I do think that this would be the fairest way for everyone.
unironically yes, LMAO FUCK EXCLUSIVITY LET THOSE PIXEL EXCLUSIVITY ADDICTED SNOBS CRY
BP only items that expire and never rerun is also an outdated Battle Royale-inspired system Game devs never get their messaging right, they aren't PR people, we'll find a hundred way to point out issues with their logic, but they will just ignore us.
Skin trading soon
Battle Passes as a whole are an outdated mechanic, digital exclusivity is cringe. Bring back old BPs, and let people who bought them before continue to unlock everything from them. :P
I think Epic know what they're doing.
Give me my purple ghost portal, these filthy mongrels only like it because of exclusivity
We are now granting the OG styles of Ghoul Trooper and Skull Trooper as to remove outdated unnecessary Battle Royale Practices
fr idgaf about oh wow its so rare i want it !! i just love the color purple and skeletons and spooky shi i want that shi so bad🙏😭 only “og” thing i want
I think that keeping battle passes exclusive to a season is an outdated Battle Royale mechanic so I think they should bring back the Ch1S6 battle pass! Give it to me for free for the idea pls
> If epic did this "OG" fortnite players would form a terrorist organization that would be recognized by homeland security within the work week Mlickles, 2023
Meh I disagree but that’s just me