The cost of running Fortnite has gone up a lot

  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    You don’t need V-Bucks to play Fortnite, but kids aren’t also known for having fully-developed skills like budgeting and delayed gratification. Perhaps it holds today’s kids’ attention longer because it’s changing in a way that games didn’t when we were kids.

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        9 hours ago

        Maybe kids are earning vbucks by doing chores?

        I too think its pants-on-head retarded to buy skins, but i remember being a kid and only wanting a certain toy because its popular right now. The amount of kids who wanted pokemon cards but didnt know how to play was unreal.

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        You didn’t learn budgeting in one go. I learned it in part by not being able to afford every video game I wanted. Part of how this generation of kids will learn budgeting is by only having a finite amount of V-Bucks and not being able to get every skin that they want, but they’ll keep playing Fortnite, and they’ll keep seeing new skins they want.