The Metaverse is Killing the Item Shop

[@RedneckdudeOG]

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

[@glardian966]

Everyone always forgets the metaverse was actually Donald Mustards idea

[@astroevada]

@@glardian966 Mustard wanted a "everyone's here" type of metaverse ala Super Smash Bros or Infinity War. Tim Sweeney aims for a roblox clone/ready player one type of thing.

[@RedneckdudeOG]

@@astroevada yea not some stupid Roblox type sbit

[@drinkwwwaterrr]

I'll be honest, idc if it was Mustard or Sweeney, I dont want any kind of metaverse, i just want to play a battle royale and maybe other related gamemodes that make sense like the LTMs, Reload and Team Rumble, not Roblox or a bunch of brand promos

[@theurbanreanimator7244]

@@drinkwwwaterrr then dont? Theyre not forcing you to play any of the alt modes, i seriously dont get why people are pissing and throwing temper tantrums over their existence, like chill out bruh

[@ITalk69]

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.

[@AhenobarbusHenocied_]

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

[@PolkaPeter]

Compatibility is honestly gonna be a great change for instruments

[@Bennjipie]

I never saw the leak but honestly, that makes it worth it ngl, I wanna show off Kirk's guitar

[@BetarayBillLover]

No it doesn’t why would I want a garbage instrument in my bundle when it already comes with a backbling and pickaxe

[@astrobones5480]

@@BetarayBillLover because some of them look amazing

[@_LunarLillies_]

the item shop is like 75% licensed slop and 25% original stuff that isn't even good half the time

[@Dhuvenster]

Wym by licensed slop

[@muffetmissulena6540]

If they want to cell kicks so badly, it needs to be 200 V bucks max.

[@Buzz.co2]

I personally think 500 should be the max but I actually think Kicks are cool so…

[@DSLBikes]

@@Buzz.co2 500 is crazy thats 5 dollars

[@andraw4002]

They should just remove them. It's actual brainrot.

[@kesavagarwal6597]

@@andraw4002 exactly! who even asked for kicks ? Just another way of making money

[@rene_mxo]

@@andraw4002 mf it’s shoes 💀

[@negentropyagent7337]

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

[@ernestohuerta5638]

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!

[@MrMilkthe3rd]

I spent 3,600k v-bucks on kicks

[@hailmatcha]

@@MrMilkthe3rd youre weird

[@MrMilkthe3rd]

@@hailmatcha k

[@slothfulchimp4110]

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

[@Ibiteankleslol]

@@slothfulchimp4110 Its obvi just a cash grab. backblings have been here for years

[@moonlightostrich3690]

skull trooper supports kicks but jonesey the first doesnt 💀

[@Buzz.co2]

@@moonlightostrich3690 they just choose the most popular skins or the collaborations that they want people to buy.

[@ande2635]

Not even Agent Jones, which pissed me off that they weren't compatible 🫤

[@brandonstarstorm3289]

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. 💀

[@V0dCuh]

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

[@CorpCoral]

@@moonlightostrich3690 Frozen Peely has kicks, but not regular Peely. ITS THE SAME MODEL!!

[@Ace-Intervention]

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

[@theurbanreanimator7244]

@@Ace-Intervention you let them since chapter 1 when they started selling skins, people havs always bought overpriced shit and people still do, skins alone shouldnt cost more than 5 bucks

[@Ace-Intervention]

@ yapping

[@theurbanreanimator7244]

@@Ace-Intervention no rebuttle, cause you dont have none, classic!

[@Ace-Intervention]

@ again yapping

[@theurbanreanimator7244]

@@Ace-Intervention whatever helps you sleep at night

[@EndrVersace]

Involving the Kicks, I heard somewhere that literally their justification for them even existing is so that they can get more brand sponsorships. That's it.....if that is actually the case then WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!!!!????

[@racingraptor4758]

Korpos being korpos...

[@ButtonBoyChop]

Yall cry about everything lol

[@THELEGEND-ib4rc]

Just epic taking the money hungry void like Disney

[@Oneserioustiger]

@@ButtonBoyChop “leave the multibillion dollar company alone”

[@Beth_0477]

@@Oneserioustiger u sound even more desperate and dumb trying to go havoc over a company making videogames.

[@pixelpunchyt]

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.

[@bowenbright4270]

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.

[@90sNath]

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

[@meganvincent5381]

God that's so stupid, I wish they'd just get rid of the daily shop system. Just allow us to buy whatever we want whenever we want

[@pphead9960]

@@meganvincent5381 the funny thing is they’d probably make so much more money if they did that.

[@AlmightyKing143]

@@pphead9960 you’d think that but I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Not to say that you’re completely wrong but if they were to do what Vincent said in his original comment then they couldn’t exploit people’s fears of a costume not returning for a certain amount of time. FOMO (fear of missing out) That’s why there’s an item shop and daily system because it makes a large amount of people pay for something rather than them just not feeling forced to.

[@B-zk9bt]

Yes because I hate FOMO so much

[@WindyWooshes]

Theres a game called Ninjala on the Switch that does just that! They release limited things, but everything that releases in the shop is there permanatly. They simply have a spotlight on select items. You do have to scroll through almost 2000 items though lol

[@meganvincent5381]

@WindyWooshes but its not fortnite 😭

[@SgtTankDempsey]

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]

you didnt watch or listen, I didnt blame the devs. I specifically said that its the higher ups.

[@SgtTankDempsey]

@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.

[@MattLumbur]

Those 1000 v-bucks kicks felt expensive from the start. I'm glad to hear someone else say it too.

[@39mack23]

@@MattLumbur they aren’t required to buy lol

[@thetoondevil]

​@@39mack23regardless of the fact, if I had the option to spend 1000 vbucks for a pair of shoes or a skin. Getting the skin just makes more sense. I'd rather buy a backbling than shoes cause at least I can see the backbling.

[@39mack23]

@@thetoondevil fair enough 💯

[@6.ivual.m3]

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

[@TomatenSalatVerkeufer]

If you have no idea about how to do it it seems easy to do but its not

[@6.ivual.m3]

@ is his writing fire?

[@Buzz.co2]

“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.

[@6.ivual.m3]

@ I’m just mad about my glorious king ares not being compatible 💔💔

[@Buzz.co2]

@@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 😭.

[@thatslavic2308]

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

[@TomatenSalatVerkeufer]

@@thatslavic2308 if you dont want it dont buy it simple

[@grantwheeler5034]

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

[@Bennjipie]

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

[@FancyTopHat58]

Sometimes, I'll buy the crew pack just to get the new battle pass, but I rarely spend money buying v bucks.

[@MarianzYT]

Suprisingly a lot of people, sadly

[@CraftWave26]

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

[@PJRNWY]

I’m 16 and I don’t buy stuff but some 13 year old buys stuff for me because he thinks I play

[@cubeco]

furthermore, they ruined the juice wrld bundle to the point where it’s only worth purchasing the skin and wrap separately 😭

[@K3nnex02]

That’s exactly what i did, purchased the skin and the warp and that’s all, it was cheaper than the bundle

[@YourAverageReviews]

Having other people tell me I don't understand money because I buy cosmetics in a video game is crazy. If someone enjoys something, and it's not harmful, no one should tell you that you shouldn't do it.

[@Gohji]

Spend $10 for some pixel shoes lil bro

[@YourAverageReviews]

@Gohji the funny thing is I'm probably older than you

[@DUDNHAIDR4EVER]

@@YourAverageReviews but you still act like a toddler

[@YourAverageReviews]

@DUDNHAIDR4EVER there is a saying, men don't grow up, they're toys just get more expensive. And we're literally talking about $10. That's not much money when you're an adult.

[@puppy5267]

it’s your money, your choice. I honestly don’t mind if people buy these things, even I don’t spend any vbux on skins but don’t scrutinize others for doing so.

[@Buzz.co2]

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

[@princetbz1102]

Ok genius. Good point

[@Buzz.co2]

@@princetbz1102 ok

[@Motylia]

blahajs are better and meow soles bye bye

[@XwiktorroX-u9o]

5:38 Talk to ... ah and spit on that thang

[@Bennjipie]

NO STOP IT. GET OUT

[@YugoShokan-t8w]

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.

[@brenomedeiros8460]

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.

[@wilf7349]

They need to bring rarities on cosmetics back ASAP. It used to be so easy to locate my skins, now they all look the exact same.

[@jobro3390]

christmas shops soon, get ready for manic, skull trooper, red knight, and christmas themed shoes and cars 🔥

[@pixelpunchyt]

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.

[@Axtro442]

omg I’m so happy your bringing this up. I feel like people don’t realize this enough and that the item shop really is just a huge advertisement now. thanks for covering this.

[@aykrivwassup]

9:26 Rarities still exist internally and are hidden from view. Nearly every non-"Series" skin added since the removal, including all 5 ATLA skins, have been Epic rarity. Since Chapter 5 Season 3, we've gotten 2 Outfits coded as "Rare" rarity: Rosette Tigress, and Champion Drake. Both were released during REMIX. The other 2 original skin rarites that aren't Epic - that's Legendary and Uncommon - have gotten nothing. Though, shortly after the change, we did get our first non-default Common skin: Nike Goddess.

[@gothic4151]

I bought the air force ones but I do agree they are overpriced and done lazily. Every skin I have that has boots is half done for replacing the boots with kicks. Kuno's old shoes stick out of the top, the defaults and default reskins have laces stuck out from the boots. Lady gaga and karol G have 90% of their boots

[@gilly734]

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

[@zekethefreak4]

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

[@JustinKingzJC]

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

[@tripokemon22]

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.

[@racingraptor4758]

Cars are overpriced but compared to Rocket League prices and availability they are actually decent deal.

[@BakeDaPie]

@@racingraptor4758 this sentence literally makes no sense, "they are overpriced but actually an average price"

[@lakelander2051]

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.

[@swykitsune6836]

spending 10$ for virtual shoes is craaazy

[@AndrewBarbecue]

This is just frustrating, a lot of people are waiting for the Arcane skins with the release and end of season 2 and everyone thought the skins would return because of this, but guess what? The kicks update came first, and because of this the skins haven't returned, Vi (one of the Arcane skins) had kicks compatibility, but Jinx (the other Arcane skin) didn't, and what happened? They took away kicks compatibility from Vi to release her with Jinx with kicks compatibility so this is why they haven't returned, we can only hope they return next season.

[@ComfeeCat]

If they held back the arcane skins for season 2s release because they’re not compatible with the shoes, I will be showing up to the riot offices with a suspicious bag

[@ThenightOfHalloween]

10:02 REAL ITS A GUITAR EVERY SINGLE TIME-

[@dragonbladenzt]

As somebody with 1,600 skins I can truly say that removing rarities was atrocious to deal with.

[@notnamed6315]

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.

[@Bennjipie]

Honestly, respect. Call of Duty is terrible when it comes to microtransactions

[@danieldlinton3773]

😂😂😂😂😂 Man people can be soo retared

[@D.The1st]

"European vacation amounts" lmfao this quote Is so funny happy to see you're having fun with the game keep it up!

[@SirKingCora]

I've played the game for almost a year now, I've averaged spending $30 a month or a total of $330. Lately there's nothing I cared to buy though so this month I save that $30. To each their own. So long as you're not putting yourself in any financial issues then more power to you.

[@notnamed6315]

@@SirKingCora exactly. It’s better than booze! Lol.

[@kingwong597]

Their was 1 item that happened to come back in the item shop and I missed it. I am so upset at myself and kicking myself at it. the last time it came in that i checked was in October but prior to that it hasn't been in the shop for 700+ days. I wish epic would listen to its players and bring back items that haven't returned in ridiculous amounts of days instead of recycling items that have come back many times.

[@philledzone]

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?!

[@lllllllllllllllllllllIII]

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

[@Jay-rl3bw]

the only kicks I like r the shark and bunny shoes, cause they’re the cheapest and cute. it’s kinda like buying an emote to me tbh. also, the bit where you added no after that creator mentioned liking his stuff for a new emote made me laugh😭

[@Apollo_2108]

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

[@Apollo_2108]

Unrelated but what happened to the de-rezz-stroyer pick that was a part of reload

[@bugjuicereviews]

I still believe that the reason they removed rarities from the locker was due to a single challenge they put out themselves where you had to eliminate someone who had weapons of higher rarity than you. For some reason, the pickaxe counted for this and so there was a very real chance that if you wanted to actually complete the quest, you couldn't use the pickaxe you wanted. I believe that quest was late in chapter 4. I think it was during a summer event.

[@Zaltiz]

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.

[@captainswagger2838]

The problem i noticed with lego mode and it probably now affects this is that its not the mode or cosmetic that limits shops. Ots whatever is picking. I remember around the time ali a mentioned that about his emote. when shops barely change or would rotate in the same small pool despite hundreds of skins having lego counterparts. They had the options they just wouldn’t use them. Even now for example a lot of dbs skins can use shoes, but they haven’t been put in the shop for a while. That’s not a problem with shoes thats a problem with however they pick

[@Whiskers--5]

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 ;)

[@Kiriikatsune]

Kicks that dont work with every skin costing twice as much than a icon emote that works with any skin is a massive red flag and their greed is showing

[@gamingsheepy6981]

The item shop used to be a single page of a few daily rotating (aka extreme fomo) where tons of skins were 2000 vbucks, 1000+ vbucks pickaxes and emotes that went up to 800 etc. It was always bad. That's without even mentioning the *extremely* overpriced lootboxes they used to have in STW.

[@Shadowblade867]

they also silently took skins ability to use the kicks, when the "kicks" update went live i could use Goku black with them a few hours later i get back on and i am unable to set the kicks again on the goku black skin. the weird thing was the kicks looked fine with the skin lol

[@foxer3226]

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.

[@Peq92]

@@foxer3226 I think that these modes/games are fine. But epic should just keep them separate for base Fortnite and have them as there own games

[@poisemerit]

you had a blast editing the ''kicks''' part huh lmaoo anyways ur videos feel so authentic and inspiring keep it up king!

[@SleevesVR]

0:30 Bro missed the rare chest ☹️

[@Bennjipie]

trust, i went back

[@SleevesVR]

@ oh ight 👌

[@strisselstudios3932]

@@SleevesVR cultured people call them "Save the world Chests"

[@SleevesVR]

@@strisselstudios3932 real

[@Gavn735]

@@strisselstudios3932 I always called them legendary chests

[@xavithefluffydragon]

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”

[@foofle4203]

I dont know, i like the idea of rocking jordans on piccolo while hiting the macarena

[@uhhYouTubeUser]

13:02 😔 Fortnite and Cod is having a Showdown on who can take all my storage

[@enderofyt]

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

[@Whiskers--5]

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 .

[@thetoondevil]

The fact they released Kicks with less than half my skins using said feature. It just feels like Epic was eager to make money now.

[@Editz_iz_him]

THE TIMING 😭😭😭

[@albertoalves1063]

A pair of shoes costs the same as THE BATTLE PASS, it's literally something that only you know you are wearing and I said "know" because you don't see the shoe of your character in 98% of the time and also you enemy will not care about is, because the hardest place to aim is the foot and also is the place that get less damage, the enemy is always aiming for the head, so your enemy don't will see that you spent the money of a battle pass in a shoe

[@uhhYouTubeUser]

they really got Lazy with Rarity and Sets around late chapter 2 , i definitely recommend Shorting EVERYTHING by Season it helps alot

[@lllllllllllllllllllllIII]

They removed certain rarities so they can charge whatever price they want now for future cosmetics it’s scummy

[@TochGrz]

Shoes or kicks will absolutely be added to bundles in the future to inflate the price of bundles that children will get excited for and purchase right away without considering the cost

[@macszpytek7162]

They can just make “gear bundles” again with instruments and kicks and other stuff aside from the skin bundles

[@WickedSauce_73]

i started playing last season so most of my skins i use are the last battle pass skins. BUT IT DOSENT WORK WITH ANY OF THEM WHY

[@TheFurnaceKnight]

Unreal Engine 5.5 recently introduced a "mutable" plugin for models, which is used to show or hide certain parts of a model procedurally. In the conference about it, the customizable heist skins (I thought it was called caper or something) was being used with the mutable plugin. The workflow of developing kicks to work for every skin has definitely become easier with this, but I agree, it needed more time to cook. Chapter 6 launch AT LEAST.

[@Gyroman_002]

They do have a little icon when you click on the skin or item telling you where you can use it, Yet they don't do it before you click it like a pop up.

[@nathankarn5557]

Why on earth do we need kicks. SKINS ALREADY HAVE SHOES

[@mikaelamonsterland]

honestly playing this season has made me start feeling really burned out on the game and started playing single player games that don't make me feel as bad as stuff like this game and I've felt a lot less unhappy in general

[@XenoMassxx]

Yup. Being burned out is the reason why I skip some Fortnite chapters just to take a break. I was originally gonna take a break after chapter 5 but when I heard chapter 2 was coming back, I chose to play that since chapter 2 was the first time I played Fortnite years ago and was my favorite chapter.

[@zack8989]

The Vine boom when u said Kicks LMAO that had me crying for a second

[@Couchpikachu]

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.

[@racingraptor4758]

It's literally this. They wanted more $$$ from Nike and Nike wanted more $$$ from Epic and they ,,created" kicks... Just korpo stuf

[@klulikxd]

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...

[@LeighRobles-ex6wo]

One of the funny ones is that perfect cell can wear them but Goku can't

[@YhugYug]

In all honesty Im a part of the problem, I've boughten like 3 pairs of kicks cus I love sneakers irl but to be fair all my vbucks came from save the world/battle pass but yeah I just love making outfits and matching them so I kind of just had so many reasons to pull the trigger on them

[@SturdySolina]

@@YhugYug I just love the shark slippers 🔥🔥

[@twotruckslyrics]

if they were cheaper id buy them just so my lethal company guy could look silly 😔

[@jarvistoasty]

it gets to a point where these aren't even micro-transactions, there are macro-transactions 😭

[@Spiffyo]

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.

[@magma7155]

I'm a 3d artist and your assumption is right, changing a character to make a shoe look right on it would not be a hard or long job. wouldn't be surprised if it only took a few months

[@semmieb8456]

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

[@VenusMari-jx9sm]

I feel like they just doing this so they can start making customized outfit, it just gonna get more crazy, i remember gta v online first started, it was really a street criminal game until they started putting the heists, that when everything went downhill slowly, the bullet proof car and hydra was alr enough but then they started bringing in futuristic vehicle and weapons, hopefully gta 6 would just be like San Andreas and gta 4 but better.

[@arianagrandebayo]

7:50 500 vbucks is about $4 (or even less if you buy in bulk), and $2-3 for a song back in 2008ish is about $4-5 today so that quite literally is the same pricing lol

[@cobbwall3185]

Thank you for this video, price point is ridiculous!

[@ZeiiroSkill]

People can do what they want with their own money…and calling people stupid for spending it is crazy. Everyone’s financial situation is different…

[@VoidBeLike]

@@ZeiiroSkill fr he acts like we're required to buy them

[@logicinfected3397]

i hate that im forced to archive half my locker just so i can use the skins i want to use. it was way more easier with rarity , survival specialist is blue, sun striders purple, now they’re in the same place cus its a-z

[@Rakshasa_blade]

kicks are comatible with: Cuddle team leader-yes Raven team leader-yes Gummy team leader-no

[@WWEfan34Tony]

Brother if Jordans were $60 everyone would be wearing a pair. Most of the Jordans in the store are $200+ IRL, $10 for virtual ones is a decent price

[@Whiskers--5]

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…

[@oniRayge]

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.

[@lllllllllllllllllllllIII]

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

[@rustycookiepekka6875]

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.

[@JohnDigiorno]

They might as well make skins barefoot when you get them so you have to buy kicks 💀

[@walls-101]

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)

[@runkelpokk9]

4:18 i bet they added compatibility for all the skins which didnt need much editing to the existing model and since old skins are a lot simpler it might have taken less time to make a bunch of them compatible than with new skins

[@ShoutyKid4684]

The whole lego shop thing stopped like 3 months ago

[@XenoMassxx]

Honestly Epic is going the wrong way with these cosmetics. Imagine if they actually made outfits you can buy for skins you already own. For me personally, once I reached having a decent number of skins (over 200) and brought Dragon Ball character skins (which was my most wanted characters in Fortnite), I stopped caring to buy anymore skins. But I would be willing to buy many outfits if it meant being able to play as Drip Goku.

[@eldenburgjacob]

Me personally I like the shark shoes

[@Bennjipie]

i want clown shoes

[@Groovylonglegs]

@@Bennjipie they better make honking sounds when you move

[@thestikbotkid]

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)

[@astriksa4624]

great video man made my day !

[@LEDpanda3124]

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.

[@Bennjipie]

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

[@LEDpanda3124]

@ so in one case I bought the meow tooth pack but I got the skin for 800 by buying the other stuff separately

[@Killer_queen09]

Shoes aren’t metaverse

[@LeodisTrainSpotter]

The edward scissorhands bundle just randomly having a guitar.... they gave the man with fucking scissors for hands a guitar

[@IIISofiaIII]

Should they give him a violin? Lol

[@noodlezhp]

The only time I ever notice that shoes change on a skin are air Jordan's but I don't see a diffrence with anything else