Epic Is Increasing The Price Of Fortnite's V-bucks Currency

The existent world value of impulse-buying Fortnite skins is going up, Epic has announced. Not because skins themselves are getting much costly connected paper, but because V-Bucks, Fortnite's integer currency, is. The aforesaid prices you paid for bundles of V-Bucks successful February will now efficaciously gain you less bucks starting connected March 19, on pinch respective different Fortnite-related pricing changes.

Epic will still connection bundles of V-Bucks starting astatine $8.99 and moving each nan measurement to $89.99, but pinch a caller "conversion rate.” The caller bundle prices breakdown arsenic follows:

• $8.99 will get you 800 V-Bucks, down from 1,000 V-Bucks

• $22.99 will get you 2,400 V-Bucks, down from 2,800 V-Bucks

• $36.99 will get you 4,500 V-Bucks, down from 5,000 V-Bucks

• $89.99 will get you 12,500 V-Bucks, down from 13,500 V-Bucks

On apical of those changes, nan costs of Epic's "Exact Amount Pack," which lets you bargain nan nonstop magnitude of V-Bucks basal to complete a circumstantial purchase, is changing from astir $0.50 for 50 V-Bucks to $0.99 for 50 V-Bucks.

These caller prices for V-Bucks are US-specific and will alteration successful different regions. They're besides not wholly typical of nan worth Epic is offering pinch each purchase. As portion of nan company's Epic Rewards program, you get 20 percent backmost connected purchases made successful Fortnite, Fall Guys and Rocket League erstwhile you usage nan Epic Games Store aliases Epic's costs strategy connected Android, iOS, PC aliases nan web. That intends you tin person anyplace from $1.79 (for 800 V-Bucks) to $17.99 (for 12,500 V-Bucks) to walk successful Fortnite aliases nan Epic Games Store erstwhile you usage nan company's costs system.

Changes to nan worth of V-Bucks are besides impacting Fortnite's various passes. The modular Battle Pass will now costs 800 V-Bucks and grant 800 V-Bucks, down from its erstwhile value of 1,000 V-Bucks. Meanwhile, nan value of nan OG Pass (for Fortnite's throwback crippled mode) is lowering from 1,000 V-Bucks to 800 V-Bucks, and some nan Music and Lego Passes are going from costing 1,400 V-Bucks to 1,200 V-Bucks. For immoderate subscribers to Fortnite Crew, Fortnite's monthly subscription service, your monthly stipend of nan integer rate is besides shrinking from 1,000 V-Bucks to 800 V-Bucks.

Epic claims that it's making each of these changes because "the costs of moving Fortnite has gone up a lot" and raising prices helps salary nan bills, but nan institution is besides successful a overmuch amended position to make money connected each transaction that happens successful nan game. In securing mostly favorable outcomes successful its lawsuits against Apple and Google, Epic now has a measurement to constituent users to its costs strategy connected iOS and Android (all nan amended to debar app shop fees), and its won major concessions that look poised to reshape really app shop economies work.