Don't forget about the leak that happened recently, they are going to give the instruments back bling and pickaxe support. That 100% makes them worth a lot more often.
I think what's funny is that out of the nearly 200 skins I have, the only battle pass skins compatible with kicks (not including the current pass) is Squad Leader from Chapter 1 Season 4. 💀
Well people do the same for backblings and pickaxes which is normally around the same price range what's the problem with shoes? It's all cosmetic at the end of the day
Remember when the sold pets on store for 1000 vbucks and everyone got pissed and they literally nuked the item store pets? Now we’re just letting them do this without resistance
I know epic has already had a case for stealing money from children, but let’s be honest, who above the age of 13 really spends money on this game anymore. I haven’t spent a dime since chapter 1 although I have played a good bit since then, I just get the vbucks I can from save the world. It’s kinda cruel what they do and they’re just raising prices higher and higher for these kids
I think the main issue is companies take advantage of whales. (ppl who spend a lot of money on games regardless of how much its worth) I think everyone has the option to just not buy a thing and leave it as that, but if I really want something and don't have the vbucks, I will buy like 1000 vbucks and get that thing. But its mostly kids, theyre dumb
As a STW player, I also don't usually need to buy V-bucks. I will admit, I do buy cosmetics and jam tracks, but only those that caught my interest. Or the Battle Pass. I find your point about inflation to be quite appealing, given that the Battle Pass also went up to 1000 V-Bucks. I think it kind of goes to show that kids need to learn about money early on, so that way they can possibly change the game with their wallets. Sorry if that was a bit of a rant or it upsets people
I'm so done with the multiverse cosmetics cause nearly everyone don't care about the multiveres they just care for br,Make it so which gamemode you're on the item shop change and sells different stuff and the stuff should he like only 200 V-bucks
“Should” not are. Many skins have different foot models that need to be detached from the skin and replaced by the kicks. The kicks are meant to look like they are actually being worn by the skins, so there aren’t any gaps or issues with the models. Is it stupid that there are only 500 supported skins, yes, is it understandable, yes.
The priority was artificially inflating the compatibility number, defaults and skins that use same body like Ruby and Britestorm Bomber, Soccer skins where they just need to make a guy and a girl compatible because they're all the same, Chapulin skins too, All those skins that have the leg armor thing, those are basically all the same body with different textures, the issue is they count all those skins as different, so when they say 500 skins are compatible, it's more like 100. Expect compatibility to get added very slowly for actually unique skins seeing that even cheating like that I only have 3 compatible shop skins, one being Ruby.
Epic needs to look at how they added back blings and use that as a reference for new cosmetics. Before back blings came out Some skins Had built in capes or backpacks. Once back blings dropped the old built in ones became a separate cosmetic and owners of the skin got it for free. Additionally back blings came with the skin for no additional cost and all skins were compatible. Epic did something similar when festival tracks came out and kinda did a similar thing. Some lobby tracks turned into festival tracks and owners got them free of charge. Don’t see why this didn’t happen with kicks.
Funny, cause that's what I thought would happen with kicks too. I've been majorly disappointed even since realizing it. I kept waiting for my skin's shoes to come into my locker, only to see they never actually appeared
Agree, besides the rocket league cars, everything else is just filler/over priced, however, the cars are also overpriced, but at least it would be worth your purchase when you can use it in battle royale, rocket racing, and rocket league, but again the other cosmetics would be worth buying once they lower the price of them and make them more usable in battle royale and other game modes
True. I always felt the cars weren't overpriced. Most of them are the same price as skins and the cars do more than skins. The only cars I thought were overpriced were the brand name cars plus the launch prices.
I find what pissed me off about the whole rarity situation is that they kept rarity in Rocket League (but not Fortnite...😐) but just changed the names of the raritys so they weren't just named uncommon, rare, epic etc. I don't know why they didn't just do that in Fortnite as well. It makes no sense to me at all.
They did it to charge whatever price they want now since the main rarities are gone they no longer have to be a max of like 800 or 500 now they can easily make that 1000 like with the kicks that’s why most of them are pricey
I wish Kicks were cheaper (everyone does), instruments were kept to their own weird little mode, cars were cheaper (probably like 1,000 to 1,500 vbucks), and that Lego Kits can fu
I really don’t know who is buying these. Like it’s a fun ideas however the fact they gave us a pair in the pass essentially for all of us to try in game. You can barely see your feet in game. I didn’t know they could make a worse cosmetic then all the meta verse stuff they already shoveled out to us. I really hope we aren’t spending the money on these so epic can rethink how to handle this stuff.
What makes it even more frustrating is that UEFN MAPS HAVE HAD SHOE COSMETICS FOR MONTHS. FOR FREE. sure they look kinda goofy because they're a one-size-fits-all solution BUT THE DAMN PLAYERS FIGURED IT OUT BEFORE EPIC DID.
I will say that the Kicks won't cause a severe dent in the item shop as Lego did(don't need to wait for different skins and emotes to be modelled and animated for the game while deprioritizing the weapon wraps and pickaxes). However the bigger pricetags can eat crap for all I care, the sharks are the only purchase because its a funny pair of slippers and I won't be getting the Meow-Soles in comparision. You've also bring up a good point, I might spring for Converses and High Heels, but taking the characters shoes off of them for a more defaultish version, and I'm more then likely going to hate that since Kicks themselves already just overlap on boots. Cars hit the pricepoint of, I won't get them because they cost as much as a elaborate character at the least, and I'm not getting questpacks anymore after a indefinite hiatus for the mode. Rarity border removal genuinely sucks, its a secondary cosmetic essentially, border pops them out among season characters and pickaxe rarities create a pleasant color scheme. I don't like them bundling instruments with characters already as someone who goes through Festival, because it feels like a needless purchase for a guitar/keytars that are already double that of the Drumkits I've only purchased a checkered drumkit because the passes only got one every other season and it was 500 vbucks. Pricepoints I feel for alot of items should be as follows. Kicks should shave the price by 200-400 vbucks(300/400 for originals, 600-700 for base collabs, and 800 for "premium" collabs), Instruments keep them at 500 at the most with drumkits being the exception at 800 for the most, car pricepoints are fineish I can't justify getting them anymore with the main gamemode dropping them and only reskinning 2 vehicles with one being out for the time being.
I'm annoyed that they're basically mass selling these new Kicks for THOSE prices even though they only fit on about 10% of the skins They must have rushed it to try and squeeze every penny from the returning players for this season
Everything is super expensive, but like you said, hardly anyone wants or buys these. Just use the battle pass car, the battle pass kicks, and the battle pass instruments. Anyone noticed how no Lego bundles have been in the item shop in a while 😂 If you do wanna get fancy the crew gives the rocket pass for a free fancy car .
You can't change meaning of the word based of your preferences. Battle Royale and Reload are also part of a Metaverse. Songs in Rock Band cost more than 5$, in Festival you can play them even for free day one...
The vine booms at each "kicks" is brilliant! 😅😂 yeah, the moment they took out rarities i knew that could mean a price increase across the board. They're doing that classic marketing tactic where they start with an egregious price then lower the price due to feedback. They then say "We're listening! We hear you!" Even though they did the same thing with the cars. Like every company does it these days. 😅😑 anyway, yeah, great stuff, my dude! 😎👍🏻
The Fortnite locker & item shop is the closest manifestation of that one meme that portrayed a game from 2010 as a complete burger with fries & a drink as DLC while recent games are just the beef patty while the bun, sesame seeds, butter, lettuce, tomato, cheese, salt, pepper, fries, frying oil, drink cup, cup ink, cup ice, and beverage are all sold separately and you ultimately pay 8x the price for the same damn thing.
This is something a lot of games have been doing as of recently. They release an overprice item to test the waters and see what they are allowed to get away with. And then after people buy those items it tells the devs to just keep releasing overpriced items since people will buy it anyways.
Wow bennji you have grown a lot since i've last seen u on my feed. Just know i'm proud of you for putting the hours into something you love, know that i have respect for it💪 keep it up man
Oh man:( back when Across the Spiderverse came out, I really wanted to buy the Miles Morales skin, but couldnt afford it at the time. I thought I could just buy the skin when the next Spiderverse movie comes out. I haven’t thought about the point you talked about of the skin probably be out just in an overpriced bundle with some Jordans (Because Miles Morales and Jordans are synonymous lmao)
I think the Kicks price will be reduced because they did reduce the prices for cars and instruments after community backlash and I have seen more people complaining about Kicks prices than I did with cars and instruments.
i just got vbucks in the first time in my life been playing since 2019 i saw all the good items go away because i was a default with no skin i saw the cold snap black widow cat women grappler harley hiter .... and now i got vbuck but the item shop is so so bad like why epic i spend 12 dollars on your game and the item shop is trash like WTF
Shows there’s a thing where if you buy one item separately and then buy the package cheaper I understand where you coming from, but it’s the same time. You can just buy the kicks by their spider on their own and then the bundle will be cheaper.
i have 605 skins and only103 are compatible with the kicks lol. i dislike the fact that they are 1,000 vbucks in the item shop. thats way too much imo for something no one is really going to notice. also i feel you with the rarity's being removed, i only know the names for like, 6 skins and i can't find any skins quickly or easily anymore. i have to look now slowly and even then i miss the skin 9/10 times.
It's not a grey area or black and white, the real reason there aren't any LEGO styles for all the skins in Fortnite is because some of the licensed skins do not have tie-in deals with LEGO nor are the skins viable to be turned into a LEGO style due to their explicitness or heavy themes content, which isn't the same compared to the child-friendly/safe content. Thus they don't get the LEGO style treatment, only the styles that count as viable or already have a deal/tie-in in place. As for most of the original Fortnite skins that still don't have a LEGO style yet, it's best to check on their news page for LEGO Fortnite updates, as they sometimes list the skins that have finally finished getting their LEGO renders done. If a style is not on the list, then it's still being worked on (there's separate developer teams working on LFN skin renders & the Nike Kicks). Kicks will be faster to render, while LEGO Fortnite's minifigure styles would have to be fully rendered (both prints and any outerwear that's 3D-based), so no need to rush or put pressure, give it time and then it'll be complete for gameplay. Reanimating emotes to be LEGO compatible takes time and work. LEGO's minifigure has only 5 main areas of articulation so you'd have to think about what it is able to do and what it can't (and that's where the workarounds come in so that it can function and the emote can be fully rendered).
Im probally wrong but they might have to put out the "kicks" because they are with Nike and they have to have a certain date to come out. So they might have to rush it to get it out on time.
Honestly I feel it's simply fixed I'd buy more of this stuff if it was cheaper, if music was 250 vbucks a song I'd be on the stage more. And in my opinion kicks should not exceed the prices of back blings maximum price should be 800 and minimum 400
I called it long ago. This so-called "metaverse" is just a way for them to make as much money as possible. They’ll squeeze every last cent out of their consumers, but not me. I haven’t bought a skin, battle pass, or cosmetic in a while. When I do, it’s only the battle pass, and I use the V-Bucks from that to get the next one. I barely buy skins unless it’s an Icon Series. All that festival, cars, and LEGO stuff? Just overpriced trash. When I first heard about the kicks, I genuinely thought they wouldn’t cost more than 200 V-Bucks. Imagine my surprise when I saw they were priced way higher than that! People are still going to buy them, though, so Fortnite probably won’t change its approach. Then on top of that, some skins already come with branded kicks, yet we can’t equip them with other skins. At the very least, Fortnite should make those shoes (which your skin already owns) cross-compatible.
As if the prices werent bad enough,you cant even customize the colors to the shoes. The item compatibility criteria also means we arent getting Lobby Music Packs ever again because people are easily favoring the hundreds of jam tracks being available 24/7.They still need to display the Season/Chapter Jam Tracks were introduced in because using Season and Favorited when looking through Lobby music's would just display everything out of order.
A filter system would be great, what I mean by that is: all the “metaverse” content is COMPLETELY separate physically, so it would be easy to make a setting were you could only show a player battle royale content through the means of toggling things in settings, like for example, in my case I like festival and battle royale, so I could turn off creative and rocket racing content so i wouldn’t constantly be shown new things I don’t care about. Epic could use data from these settings to see what players are most interested in, if epic doesn’t do this I would love for them to do something similar to it.
Disney needs to stop meddling, they’ve actually been the driving force for all these changes in order to make more money like removing battle pass exclusivity or rarity so that they could price things whatever they feel
Everything else was whatever. Ya know, the Lego fans can buy stuff, car people can buy stuff, all good whatever, it’s all the players choice. But shoes? Shoes has got to be one of the most cash grabby item possible, there is no reason skins need shoes. A lot of these outfits already have foot designs
9:33 i have to say i disagree with this statement. I genuinely dont believe that this was the reason it was removed. Because technically they could literally just say any skin they wanted was legendary and charge it as such if they didnt remove rarities. However what you said about the inclusion of instruments in bundles without a choice in the matter to increase the prices i 100% agree with. Making the bundle the only way to get cosmetics is absolutely ridiculous. Either way very well made video
Whats lame is guitars and other game items sold in the same shop. Its like Nintendo makig you buy super mario items by selling zelda content. What???? I play battle royal.... Please stop giving me rewards for other games. Imagine beating a pokemon game and unlocking a zelda item...... 😅
The reason old BP have shoes but new BP doesn’t is cause it’s fun so why not? Random item shop skins come and they’re the ones that get top importance for compatibility, and it actually lets you know what’ll come back soon. The priority is random…
All my instruments came from the free festival pass and the main battlepass. Songs should be 300 VBucks and refund us the 200 VBucks from each song we bought. Don't blame the devs and blame Tim Sweeny
@Bennjipie I was just referring to how people tend to blame the devs on this stuff, like how they hated the Cyber Truck it's not their fault it's basically due what I say or your fired.
I just look at it as oh well, I spend less money on the game, because I def aint buying these shoes or cars. I just get my Vbucks from crew, the BP and Founders in STW. Pretty much just buy emotes when they release good ones. The need to clean the shop up though, its so bloated
epic should be able to select what out of the bundle u want and don't want, they already have the code for it whenever you own the item so you can reuse that code and just provide a UI to remove items u don't want
as soon as they removed the rarities. that was their plan, and when they got pushback over them already making all skins cost the same besides like really old “uncommon” skins. so they are bloating the bundles to make them worth “more”
The items in the thumbnail don't suck. Leave 'em alone. They're good anyways for the time being as more stuff is being rendered and worked on so that later they'll return again in the item shop. Just send Epic a message for what you want, and they'll keep that in mind for their next task next time.
Speaking of the rarity thing: Just today I had the same situation that I have regularly. I literally screamed of rage because I couldn't find the one Stairs Glider from Chapter 4, Season 1. My friend that was in a Discord call with me can confirm. I hate this change. They literally said in the blogpost that they did this to "find our favorite items faster" but literally the opposite is true... Are they stupid?!
Nah bro they did this so they can charge whatever price they want for cosmetics since there is no rarities they can break the rules and charge way more and it’s wrong
They only do bundles and they are pumping the prices of those bundles up. When was the last time we saw pickaxes or gliders in the shop that weren’t 1. popular 2. rare 3. apart of another set of cosmetics that was in the shop at the same time
Hey bro so when the nexts season comes out I’m going to use your code to get demon slayer skins but I don’t have twitter or discord so I can’t show you but just know when the demon slayer skins come I’m using your code (also do I have to do it when buying in the shop or when buying vbucks)
2026 bundle: 9,000 v-bucks, skin, glider, wrap, pickaxe, backbling, piano, guitar, accordeon, kicks, jean, sweater , car *the glider is the most magestic thing ever but is exclusive to the bundle
The item shop is just really weak in general, i think the last skin i wanted was like...raven team leader and that was a year ago, the only new thing i feel like i "had to have" instead of like "oh I'd use that if it was battle pass maybe" in recent weeks has been the calinfornia love emote
We get some curve balls but not a lot paradigm and I know it was removed we got Eddie Brock back but it can literally take over 5 years to see your favorite emote or skin because it gets vaulted
7:46 its not much you dont even need to buy them to play them every day there Songs you can play and there are 15-20 Songs to just play also you can use Jam Tracks as an Emote and as Lobby Music
So with the $5 songs in Fortnite and $3 in rock band, in rock band if you wanted too play a song with your friends, all of your friends had too have the songs, so too play a full band that’s $12 compared too Fortnite where it’s $5 for a full band, I’m not saying songs aren’t overpriced, they are, but that’s the justification for the price according to epic
I do think that future battle passes will include kicks, just that they'll be the 600 vbucks original ones and not the branded ones like now in remix (not like I cared for those anyways)
I have 153 skins and only 30 are compatible with kicks. The kicks are terrible. They're over priced and in my situation half my locker isnt even compatible so im not buying them. Im just using the bp kicks the shop kicks just arent worth it.
You think its not a big deal but I thank you for bringing attention to it anyway. To me it's not just about Fortnite; have you noticed how whenever Fortnite gets away with something, then a lot of other live service games copy the same scummy behavior?? Two examples off my head are other games creating their own OG seasons, and them overcharging for the most rushed nonsensical cosmetics I've ever seen By generating pushback on egregious company decisions, we can make other higher-ups think twice about trying to normalize these overpriced visual fodder. & I get that Fortnite is a free game, but come on now; those shoes cost more than some skins!! Wt f?! They dont even offer an FOV slider for you to properly see the kicks in-match. How about fixing the quality the darn game before introducing stuff only 0.8% of the playerbased asked for 🙏🏿
Played STW last weeks. It's still more fun/better than FN BR past 4 years Epic should work on that mode again. Could do way better story or multiversus collabs.
as a proud stw founders owner ive only spent 50$ on this game and i have almost every battle pass. i dont buy skins because i only use the world cup warrior 😭😭
how about just don't buy them? It ain't like they are forcing you to buy em, kind of a dumb argument with the Lego styles for skins when they aren't things you even purchase but get for free, like I can understand the whole kicks thing being shit but just don't buy em it's that plain and simple
The irony of kicks being incompatible with so many skins probably means less people are going to actually buy them. At this point I kinda wish they just die off after a few months.
I mean shoes are cool because used for many skins in all game modes except Lego but festival stuff I wish they made them into backbling and pickaxe Because the silk sonic set has microphone and also drum set as backbling that u can use I do think it’s weird that marvle skins have instrument especially last season there was so many marvle instruments that was odd another thing some bundles have exclusive item or emote and that’s bad
My chap 1 season 4 wingman starter pack is compatible with my Jordan’s but my Travis Scott (who has Jordan’s already as part of his skin) isn’t compatible
Thank you so much for this amazing video! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
Don't forget about the leak that happened recently, they are going to give the instruments back bling and pickaxe support. That 100% makes them worth a lot more often.
Thats actually a really good change, I’m glad
Btw I’ve been subbed to you for like 5 something years now lol since OG season 6 💀big fan
Compatibility is honestly gonna be a great change for instruments
I never saw the leak but honestly, that makes it worth it ngl, I wanna show off Kirk's guitar
No it doesn’t why would I want a garbage instrument in my bundle when it already comes with a backbling and pickaxe
@@BetarayBillLover because some of them look amazing
skull trooper supports kicks but jonesey the first doesnt 💀
@@moonlightostrich3690 they just choose the most popular skins or the collaborations that they want people to buy.
Not even Agent Jones, which pissed me off that they weren't compatible 🫤
I think what's funny is that out of the nearly 200 skins I have, the only battle pass skins compatible with kicks (not including the current pass) is Squad Leader from Chapter 1 Season 4. 💀
Yeah I have 117 skins and only 21 skins are compatible also one of them is deku from the my hero academia collab which was very surprising to me
If they want to cell kicks so badly, it needs to be 200 V bucks max.
I personally think 500 should be the max but I actually think Kicks are cool so…
@@Buzz.co2 500 is crazy thats 5 dollars
They should just remove them. It's actual brainrot.
@@andraw4002 exactly! who even asked for kicks ? Just another way of making money
@@andraw4002 mf it’s shoes 💀
agree, the shop sucks now.. who on earth spends 1k vbucks on kicks ?! It s like getting 10% of a skin for 1k !! Completely moronic!
I spent 3,600k v-bucks on kicks
@@MrMilkthe3rd youre weird
@@hailmatcha k
Well people do the same for backblings and pickaxes which is normally around the same price range what's the problem with shoes? It's all cosmetic at the end of the day
@@slothfulchimp4110 Its obvi just a cash grab. backblings have been here for years
The metaverse is something that a bunch of old people in a board room think young people are interested in, but in reality literally nobody cares
Remember when the sold pets on store for 1000 vbucks and everyone got pissed and they literally nuked the item store pets?
Now we’re just letting them do this without resistance
I know epic has already had a case for stealing money from children, but let’s be honest, who above the age of 13 really spends money on this game anymore. I haven’t spent a dime since chapter 1 although I have played a good bit since then, I just get the vbucks I can from save the world. It’s kinda cruel what they do and they’re just raising prices higher and higher for these kids
I think the main issue is companies take advantage of whales. (ppl who spend a lot of money on games regardless of how much its worth) I think everyone has the option to just not buy a thing and leave it as that, but if I really want something and don't have the vbucks, I will buy like 1000 vbucks and get that thing.
But its mostly kids, theyre dumb
Sometimes, I'll buy the crew pack just to get the new battle pass, but I rarely spend money buying v bucks.
Suprisingly a lot of people, sadly
As a STW player, I also don't usually need to buy V-bucks. I will admit, I do buy cosmetics and jam tracks, but only those that caught my interest. Or the Battle Pass. I find your point about inflation to be quite appealing, given that the Battle Pass also went up to 1000 V-Bucks. I think it kind of goes to show that kids need to learn about money early on, so that way they can possibly change the game with their wallets.
Sorry if that was a bit of a rant or it upsets people
I’m 16 and I don’t buy stuff but some 13 year old buys stuff for me because he thinks I play
I'm so done with the multiverse cosmetics cause nearly everyone don't care about the multiveres they just care for br,Make it so which gamemode you're on the item shop change and sells different stuff and the stuff should he like only 200 V-bucks
@@thatslavic2308 if you dont want it dont buy it simple
Kicks should NOT be that hard to finish for most skins, it is literally just shoes. Theres not a new model for each skin like Lego
If you have no idea about how to do it it seems easy to do but its not
@ is his writing fire?
“Should” not are. Many skins have different foot models that need to be detached from the skin and replaced by the kicks. The kicks are meant to look like they are actually being worn by the skins, so there aren’t any gaps or issues with the models. Is it stupid that there are only 500 supported skins, yes, is it understandable, yes.
@ I’m just mad about my glorious king ares not being compatible 💔💔
@@6.ivual.m3 I want my Queen Paradigm to be able to wear the cat slippers but that would likely never happen because the storyline is Joever 😭.
christmas shops soon, get ready for manic, skull trooper, red knight, and christmas themed shoes and cars 🔥
The priority was artificially inflating the compatibility number, defaults and skins that use same body like Ruby and Britestorm Bomber, Soccer skins where they just need to make a guy and a girl compatible because they're all the same, Chapulin skins too, All those skins that have the leg armor thing, those are basically all the same body with different textures, the issue is they count all those skins as different, so when they say 500 skins are compatible, it's more like 100. Expect compatibility to get added very slowly for actually unique skins seeing that even cheating like that I only have 3 compatible shop skins, one being Ruby.
Epic needs to look at how they added back blings and use that as a reference for new cosmetics. Before back blings came out Some skins Had built in capes or backpacks. Once back blings dropped the old built in ones became a separate cosmetic and owners of the skin got it for free. Additionally back blings came with the skin for no additional cost and all skins were compatible. Epic did something similar when festival tracks came out and kinda did a similar thing. Some lobby tracks turned into festival tracks and owners got them free of charge. Don’t see why this didn’t happen with kicks.
Funny, cause that's what I thought would happen with kicks too. I've been majorly disappointed even since realizing it. I kept waiting for my skin's shoes to come into my locker, only to see they never actually appeared
Those 1000 v-bucks kicks felt expensive from the start. I'm glad to hear someone else say it too.
Even the emotes they have been adding in the shop lately features some type of foot focus dance. It's hilarious how obvious they push this stuff
Agree, besides the rocket league cars, everything else is just filler/over priced, however, the cars are also overpriced, but at least it would be worth your purchase when you can use it in battle royale, rocket racing, and rocket league, but again the other cosmetics would be worth buying once they lower the price of them and make them more usable in battle royale and other game modes
True. I always felt the cars weren't overpriced. Most of them are the same price as skins and the cars do more than skins. The only cars I thought were overpriced were the brand name cars plus the launch prices.
I find what pissed me off about the whole rarity situation is that they kept rarity in Rocket League (but not Fortnite...😐) but just changed the names of the raritys so they weren't just named uncommon, rare, epic etc. I don't know why they didn't just do that in Fortnite as well. It makes no sense to me at all.
They did it to charge whatever price they want now since the main rarities are gone they no longer have to be a max of like 800 or 500 now they can easily make that 1000 like with the kicks that’s why most of them are pricey
I wish Kicks were cheaper (everyone does), instruments were kept to their own weird little mode, cars were cheaper (probably like 1,000 to 1,500 vbucks), and that Lego Kits can fu
they really got Lazy with Rarity and Sets around late chapter 2 , i definitely recommend Shorting EVERYTHING by Season it helps alot
They removed certain rarities so they can charge whatever price they want now for future cosmetics it’s scummy
0:30 Bro missed the rare chest ☹️
trust, i went back
@ oh ight 👌
I really don’t know who is buying these. Like it’s a fun ideas however the fact they gave us a pair in the pass essentially for all of us to try in game. You can barely see your feet in game. I didn’t know they could make a worse cosmetic then all the meta verse stuff they already shoveled out to us. I really hope we aren’t spending the money on these so epic can rethink how to handle this stuff.
13:02 😔 Fortnite and Cod is having a Showdown on who can take all my storage
What makes it even more frustrating is that UEFN MAPS HAVE HAD SHOE COSMETICS FOR MONTHS. FOR FREE. sure they look kinda goofy because they're a one-size-fits-all solution BUT THE DAMN PLAYERS FIGURED IT OUT BEFORE EPIC DID.
I will say that the Kicks won't cause a severe dent in the item shop as Lego did(don't need to wait for different skins and emotes to be modelled and animated for the game while deprioritizing the weapon wraps and pickaxes). However the bigger pricetags can eat crap for all I care, the sharks are the only purchase because its a funny pair of slippers and I won't be getting the Meow-Soles in comparision. You've also bring up a good point, I might spring for Converses and High Heels, but taking the characters shoes off of them for a more defaultish version, and I'm more then likely going to hate that since Kicks themselves already just overlap on boots.
Cars hit the pricepoint of, I won't get them because they cost as much as a elaborate character at the least, and I'm not getting questpacks anymore after a indefinite hiatus for the mode.
Rarity border removal genuinely sucks, its a secondary cosmetic essentially, border pops them out among season characters and pickaxe rarities create a pleasant color scheme.
I don't like them bundling instruments with characters already as someone who goes through Festival, because it feels like a needless purchase for a guitar/keytars that are already double that of the Drumkits I've only purchased a checkered drumkit because the passes only got one every other season and it was 500 vbucks.
Pricepoints I feel for alot of items should be as follows. Kicks should shave the price by 200-400 vbucks(300/400 for originals, 600-700 for base collabs, and 800 for "premium" collabs), Instruments keep them at 500 at the most with drumkits being the exception at 800 for the most, car pricepoints are fineish I can't justify getting them anymore with the main gamemode dropping them and only reskinning 2 vehicles with one being out for the time being.
I'm annoyed that they're basically mass selling these new Kicks for THOSE prices even though they only fit on about 10% of the skins
They must have rushed it to try and squeeze every penny from the returning players for this season
Everything is super expensive, but like you said, hardly anyone wants or buys these. Just use the battle pass car, the battle pass kicks, and the battle pass instruments. Anyone noticed how no Lego bundles have been in the item shop in a while 😂
If you do wanna get fancy the crew gives the rocket pass for a free fancy car .
You can't change meaning of the word based of your preferences. Battle Royale and Reload are also part of a Metaverse.
Songs in Rock Band cost more than 5$, in Festival you can play them even for free day one...
The vine booms at each "kicks" is brilliant! 😅😂 yeah, the moment they took out rarities i knew that could mean a price increase across the board. They're doing that classic marketing tactic where they start with an egregious price then lower the price due to feedback. They then say "We're listening! We hear you!" Even though they did the same thing with the cars. Like every company does it these days. 😅😑 anyway, yeah, great stuff, my dude! 😎👍🏻
I’m 49. Play with a lot of men and women ages 35-55. We drop European vacation amounts of money on this game. It’s fun. And it’s not call of duty.
Honestly, respect. Call of Duty is terrible when it comes to microtransactions
😂😂😂😂😂 Man people can be soo retared
"European vacation amounts" lmfao this quote Is so funny happy to see you're having fun with the game keep it up!
The Fortnite locker & item shop is the closest manifestation of that one meme that portrayed a game from 2010 as a complete burger with fries & a drink as DLC while recent games are just the beef patty while the bun, sesame seeds, butter, lettuce, tomato, cheese, salt, pepper, fries, frying oil, drink cup, cup ink, cup ice, and beverage are all sold separately and you ultimately pay 8x the price for the same damn thing.
This is something a lot of games have been doing as of recently. They release an overprice item to test the waters and see what they are allowed to get away with. And then after people buy those items it tells the devs to just keep releasing overpriced items since people will buy it anyways.
Wow bennji you have grown a lot since i've last seen u on my feed. Just know i'm proud of you for putting the hours into something you love, know that i have respect for it💪 keep it up man
Oh man:( back when Across the Spiderverse came out, I really wanted to buy the Miles Morales skin, but couldnt afford it at the time.
I thought I could just buy the skin when the next Spiderverse movie comes out. I haven’t thought about the point you talked about of the skin probably be out just in an overpriced bundle with some Jordans (Because Miles Morales and Jordans are synonymous lmao)
I think the Kicks price will be reduced because they did reduce the prices for cars and instruments after community backlash and I have seen more people complaining about Kicks prices than I did with cars and instruments.
i just got vbucks in the first time in my life been playing since 2019 i saw all the good items go away because i was a default with no skin i saw the cold snap black widow cat women grappler harley hiter .... and now i got vbuck but the item shop is so so bad like why epic i spend 12 dollars on your game and the item shop is trash like WTF
Shows there’s a thing where if you buy one item separately and then buy the package cheaper I understand where you coming from, but it’s the same time. You can just buy the kicks by their spider on their own and then the bundle will be cheaper.
that is not at all how the bundles work, if you buy a piece to a set then obviously the bundle price goes down, it doesnt become cheaper
@ so in one case I bought the meow tooth pack but I got the skin for 800 by buying the other stuff separately
i have 605 skins and only103 are compatible with the kicks lol. i dislike the fact that they are 1,000 vbucks in the item shop. thats way too much imo for something no one is really going to notice. also i feel you with the rarity's being removed, i only know the names for like, 6 skins and i can't find any skins quickly or easily anymore. i have to look now slowly and even then i miss the skin 9/10 times.
It's not a grey area or black and white, the real reason there aren't any LEGO styles for all the skins in Fortnite is because some of the licensed skins do not have tie-in deals with LEGO nor are the skins viable to be turned into a LEGO style due to their explicitness or heavy themes content, which isn't the same compared to the child-friendly/safe content. Thus they don't get the LEGO style treatment, only the styles that count as viable or already have a deal/tie-in in place.
As for most of the original Fortnite skins that still don't have a LEGO style yet, it's best to check on their news page for LEGO Fortnite updates, as they sometimes list the skins that have finally finished getting their LEGO renders done. If a style is not on the list, then it's still being worked on (there's separate developer teams working on LFN skin renders & the Nike Kicks). Kicks will be faster to render, while LEGO Fortnite's minifigure styles would have to be fully rendered (both prints and any outerwear that's 3D-based), so no need to rush or put pressure, give it time and then it'll be complete for gameplay.
Reanimating emotes to be LEGO compatible takes time and work. LEGO's minifigure has only 5 main areas of articulation so you'd have to think about what it is able to do and what it can't (and that's where the workarounds come in so that it can function and the emote can be fully rendered).
Im probally wrong but they might have to put out the "kicks" because they are with Nike and they have to have a certain date to come out. So they might have to rush it to get it out on time.
Honestly I feel it's simply fixed I'd buy more of this stuff if it was cheaper, if music was 250 vbucks a song I'd be on the stage more. And in my opinion kicks should not exceed the prices of back blings maximum price should be 800 and minimum 400
I called it long ago. This so-called "metaverse" is just a way for them to make as much money as possible. They’ll squeeze every last cent out of their consumers, but not me. I haven’t bought a skin, battle pass, or cosmetic in a while. When I do, it’s only the battle pass, and I use the V-Bucks from that to get the next one. I barely buy skins unless it’s an Icon Series. All that festival, cars, and LEGO stuff? Just overpriced trash.
When I first heard about the kicks, I genuinely thought they wouldn’t cost more than 200 V-Bucks. Imagine my surprise when I saw they were priced way higher than that! People are still going to buy them, though, so Fortnite probably won’t change its approach.
Then on top of that, some skins already come with branded kicks, yet we can’t equip them with other skins. At the very least, Fortnite should make those shoes (which your skin already owns) cross-compatible.
As if the prices werent bad enough,you cant even customize the colors to the shoes.
The item compatibility criteria also means we arent getting Lobby Music Packs ever again because people are easily favoring the hundreds of jam tracks being available 24/7.They still need to display the Season/Chapter Jam Tracks were introduced in because using Season and Favorited when looking through Lobby music's would just display everything out of order.
A filter system would be great, what I mean by that is: all the “metaverse” content is COMPLETELY separate physically, so it would be easy to make a setting were you could only show a player battle royale content through the means of toggling things in settings, like for example, in my case I like festival and battle royale, so I could turn off creative and rocket racing content so i wouldn’t constantly be shown new things I don’t care about. Epic could use data from these settings to see what players are most interested in, if epic doesn’t do this I would love for them to do something similar to it.
Disney needs to stop meddling, they’ve actually been the driving force for all these changes in order to make more money like removing battle pass exclusivity or rarity so that they could price things whatever they feel
As somebody with 1,600 skins I can truly say that removing rarities was atrocious to deal with.
Everything else was whatever.
Ya know, the Lego fans can buy stuff, car people can buy stuff, all good whatever, it’s all the players choice.
But shoes? Shoes has got to be one of the most cash grabby item possible, there is no reason skins need shoes. A lot of these outfits already have foot designs
9:33 i have to say i disagree with this statement. I genuinely dont believe that this was the reason it was removed. Because technically they could literally just say any skin they wanted was legendary and charge it as such if they didnt remove rarities. However what you said about the inclusion of instruments in bundles without a choice in the matter to increase the prices i 100% agree with. Making the bundle the only way to get cosmetics is absolutely ridiculous. Either way very well made video
Whats lame is guitars and other game items sold in the same shop. Its like Nintendo makig you buy super mario items by selling zelda content. What???? I play battle royal.... Please stop giving me rewards for other games. Imagine beating a pokemon game and unlocking a zelda item...... 😅
The reason old BP have shoes but new BP doesn’t is cause it’s fun so why not?
Random item shop skins come and they’re the ones that get top importance for compatibility, and it actually lets you know what’ll come back soon.
The priority is random…
All my instruments came from the free festival pass and the main battlepass. Songs should be 300 VBucks and refund us the 200 VBucks from each song we bought. Don't blame the devs and blame Tim Sweeny
you didnt watch or listen, I didnt blame the devs. I specifically said that its the higher ups.
@Bennjipie I was just referring to how people tend to blame the devs on this stuff, like how they hated the Cyber Truck it's not their fault it's basically due what I say or your fired.
The kicks support the top 500+ most used fortnite skins as they mentioned in the remix patch notes
ahhh I never saw anything about that, but thank you!
Who is using wastelander dummy 😭
I just look at it as oh well, I spend less money on the game, because I def aint buying these shoes or cars. I just get my Vbucks from crew, the BP and Founders in STW. Pretty much just buy emotes when they release good ones. The need to clean the shop up though, its so bloated
epic should be able to select what out of the bundle u want and don't want, they already have the code for it whenever you own the item so you can reuse that code and just provide a UI to remove items u don't want
and also gamemode cosmetics / kicks should get halved in price and then it'll be fine
They can just make “gear bundles” again with instruments and kicks and other stuff aside from the skin bundles
as soon as they removed the rarities. that was their plan, and when they got pushback over them already making all skins cost the same besides like really old “uncommon” skins. so they are bloating the bundles to make them worth “more”
The items in the thumbnail don't suck. Leave 'em alone. They're good anyways for the time being as more stuff is being rendered and worked on so that later they'll return again in the item shop. Just send Epic a message for what you want, and they'll keep that in mind for their next task next time.
The metaverse isnt killing the item shop, epic is just applying it incorrectly. If they just tweaked things it would be great
Exactly it’s very simple separate the shop for each mode why is epic insisting on the way the do things
@lllllllllllllllllllllIII idk man they need to listen to fans
Shoes aren’t metaverse
The kicks im still against. However, i believe the prices need to be changed them being almost the exact price of uncommon skin is kinda ridiculous.
Speaking of the rarity thing: Just today I had the same situation that I have regularly. I literally screamed of rage because I couldn't find the one Stairs Glider from Chapter 4, Season 1. My friend that was in a Discord call with me can confirm. I hate this change. They literally said in the blogpost that they did this to "find our favorite items faster" but literally the opposite is true... Are they stupid?!
Nah bro they did this so they can charge whatever price they want for cosmetics since there is no rarities they can break the rules and charge way more and it’s wrong
They only do bundles and they are pumping the prices of those bundles up. When was the last time we saw pickaxes or gliders in the shop that weren’t 1. popular 2. rare 3. apart of another set of cosmetics that was in the shop at the same time
Unrelated but what happened to the de-rezz-stroyer pick that was a part of reload
The fact that you’ve all already seen everything and don’t care when something new comes out is what’s killing the item shop ;)
Hey bro so when the nexts season comes out I’m going to use your code to get demon slayer skins but I don’t have twitter or discord so I can’t show you but just know when the demon slayer skins come I’m using your code (also do I have to do it when buying in the shop or when buying vbucks)
2026 bundle: 9,000 v-bucks, skin, glider, wrap, pickaxe, backbling, piano, guitar, accordeon, kicks, jean, sweater , car *the glider is the most magestic thing ever but is exclusive to the bundle
kicks are comatible with:
Cuddle team leader-yes
Raven team leader-yes
Gummy team leader-no
The item shop is just really weak in general, i think the last skin i wanted was like...raven team leader and that was a year ago, the only new thing i feel like i "had to have" instead of like "oh I'd use that if it was battle pass maybe" in recent weeks has been the calinfornia love emote
We get some curve balls but not a lot paradigm and I know it was removed we got Eddie Brock back but it can literally take over 5 years to see your favorite emote or skin because it gets vaulted
Wolverine has high boots, that's what's causing the problem, kicks don't go that high
Also the wave 1 of the nike air max skins didn't come back because they don't support kicks
furthermore, they ruined the juice wrld bundle to the point where it’s only worth purchasing the skin and wrap separately 😭
I've been on the believe that the meta verse will ruin the game since i5 came out
7:46 its not much you dont even need to buy them to play them every day there Songs you can play and there are 15-20 Songs to just play also you can use Jam Tracks as an Emote and as Lobby Music
I agree with you on the prices. they're basically scamming however i love the fact that i can be ultra instinct goku with jordans
So with the $5 songs in Fortnite and $3 in rock band, in rock band if you wanted too play a song with your friends, all of your friends had too have the songs, so too play a full band that’s $12 compared too Fortnite where it’s $5 for a full band, I’m not saying songs aren’t overpriced, they are, but that’s the justification for the price according to epic
If they try scam us putting kicks in a bundle they’d have to explain travis scott getting Nikes
i remember back in season 4 REAL season 4, i always wished i could put shoes, a hoodie etc on my skin. im happy i finally can after all this time
Wait you have Zyg but not Zuse???
I do think that future battle passes will include kicks, just that they'll be the 600 vbucks original ones and not the branded ones like now in remix (not like I cared for those anyways)
5:38 Talk to ... ah and spit on that thang
NO STOP IT. GET OUT
Bro was cooking in the background
I think their ideology was which skin can we put shoes on the easiest and quickest.
The fact u don't think they are gonna continue with the kicks after this season is ridiculous
Of course they will continue going Fortnite and epic are a business so they do whatever to keep money coming in
They should have added headwear could you imagine putting master chiefs helmet on your skin or a relley tall top hat it would have been 10x better
I have 153 skins and only 30 are compatible with kicks. The kicks are terrible. They're over priced and in my situation half my locker isnt even compatible so im not buying them. Im just using the bp kicks the shop kicks just arent worth it.
You think its not a big deal but I thank you for bringing attention to it anyway. To me it's not just about Fortnite; have you noticed how whenever Fortnite gets away with something, then a lot of other live service games copy the same scummy behavior?? Two examples off my head are other games creating their own OG seasons, and them overcharging for the most rushed nonsensical cosmetics I've ever seen
By generating pushback on egregious company decisions, we can make other higher-ups think twice about trying to normalize these overpriced visual fodder.
& I get that Fortnite is a free game, but come on now; those shoes cost more than some skins!! Wt f?! They dont even offer an FOV slider for you to properly see the kicks in-match. How about fixing the quality the darn game before introducing stuff only 0.8% of the playerbased asked for 🙏🏿
Played STW last weeks. It's still more fun/better than FN BR past 4 years
Epic should work on that mode again. Could do way better story or multiversus collabs.
I love stw just finished ventures and frostnite is very fun too
as a proud stw founders owner ive only spent 50$ on this game and i have almost every battle pass. i dont buy skins because i only use the world cup warrior 😭😭
Didnt even watched the video yet, but I agree so much with the thumbnail that i already liked it.
In the end they are running out of ideas for br cosmetics, and this is just a easy way for them to make money without really thinking
I just wanna be able to use kicks with psycho bandit man.
@@benkelly1325 ditto!
At this point we can expect to be able to buy glasses, hats heck even jackets or shirts 💀
Anyways yeah they should've made the kicks cost 200-300.
just like roblox >:)
how about just don't buy them? It ain't like they are forcing you to buy em, kind of a dumb argument with the Lego styles for skins when they aren't things you even purchase but get for free, like I can understand the whole kicks thing being shit but just don't buy em it's that plain and simple
The irony of kicks being incompatible with so many skins probably means less people are going to actually buy them.
At this point I kinda wish they just die off after a few months.
I feel kicks should be like backblings and work on all skins at launch of them
I mean shoes are cool because used for many skins in all game modes except Lego but festival stuff I wish they made them into backbling and pickaxe
Because the silk sonic set has microphone and also drum set as backbling that u can use
I do think it’s weird that marvle skins have instrument especially last season there was so many marvle instruments that was odd another thing some bundles have exclusive item or emote and that’s bad
great video man made my day !
i like the idea of kicks but i think the prices are fucking greedy
Hopefully the release of Chapter 6 will fix lots of the skins w/ kicks
My chap 1 season 4 wingman starter pack is compatible with my Jordan’s but my Travis Scott (who has Jordan’s already as part of his skin) isn’t compatible
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Anyone else remember when Deadpool was FREE 😂
If youre spending 10$ on VIRTUAL SHOES then you DESERVE to be robbed lmfao
exactly but the point is to make sure that doesnt happen to those people