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Destructoid
Destructoid
Andrej Barovic

Epic design lead says V-Bucks price increase is a necessary evil, but players aren’t impressed: ‘We need to fight this hard’

Well, folks, it happened: Fortnite is increasing the price of its premium currency, V-Bucks, much to the dismay of a good chunk of its player base. The game, featuring heavy microtransactions and battle passes, helped spread to live-service games as a whole, and had stable prices for most of its existence, but now they're getting beefed up.

And, of course, Epic Games thinks this move is absolutely necessary.

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