Epic appears to have discovered the restrict for beauty pricing. The corporate introduced at present that it’s reducing the value of Fortnite’s just lately added in-game automobiles from round $35 to round $23.
On December 8, Epic Video games and Rocket League developer Psyonix launched Rocket Racing—a brand new aggressive racing expertise—inside the favored battle royale sport, full with its personal quests and cosmetics. I’ve loved Rocket Racing because it launched earlier this month. However once I went to purchase a brand new in-game automobile, I used to be shocked by the excessive price ticket of 4,000 v-bucks. To place that in context, it prices $37 to purchase 5,000 v-bucks, the closest quantity you should buy from Epic. So these automobiles are virtually $40 a pop! That angered a variety of gamers, and Epic appears to have realized it might probably’t cost that a lot.
On December 14, Epic announced that it had “fine-tuned” the prices on its in-game automobiles, reducing how a lot they price by a major quantity.
Uncommon automobiles which beforehand price 4,000 v-bucks now price 2,500. In the meantime, unusual automobiles, which beforehand price 2,500, will now be offered for 1,500. These costs are nonetheless too excessive in my e book. The automobiles include further in-game decals and can be utilized in Rocket League, Rocket Racing, and Battle Royale.
Epic additionally promised that gamers who purchased the automobiles earlier than the value drop will get refunded the value distinction inside every week.
What makes it difficult to determine how a lot any of these items prices is how Epic (and all different publishers and firms) promote digital foreign money in particular quantities designed to push you towards shopping for greater than you want, however pricing content material so that you by no means fairly have sufficient left over for one thing else. That leads you to purchase extra foreign money, and the cycle continues.
So whereas it’s not correct to say these automobiles price $40, it’s shut sufficient. And actually, the truth that we’re even on this pricing ballpark is ridiculous. Fortunately, even when the costs are nonetheless too wealthy for my blood, it appears sufficient folks didn’t buy these expensive autos that Epic felt compelled to decrease the costs.
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