Fortnite Season Five Has Received An Official Start Date

I refuse to invest money in this.

I don't get why Battle Passes are popular. It's basically bulk buying cosmetics via completing arbitrary tickbox exercises. If people had been buying these since Day 1, it would have cost £40 by now. Guess each to their own, but if people keep buying I worry this practise will be seen as acceptable to other developers as a means of distributing "content".

Edit: Quick Google sees it's already happened with PUBG and Black Ops 4

I've been holding off on buying the Battle Pass for this season because I'd rather save my money and get a full season to unlock things.

I'm also waiting to see if the novelty wears off. I only really enjoy the exploring and building mechanics so it might become boring soon...

@GoldenGamer88 why?

@Shellcore I get what you mean and people will spend a LOT of money on games like this but I'm perfectly fone with Fortnite as (atm anyway) it's just cosmetics.
If there's a 'pay to win' mindset then it's devastating!

@Shellcore
It gives you a lot more to dom. I personally find the challenges much more fun than the core gameplay.

As @BenAV said, you have the ability to earn back more than you paid from the Battle Pass. There were a few things I wanted from this season, and in the week or so that I've been playing I was able get everything I wanted and earn back what I spent to do so thanks to the multiple weeks of challenges to work on. I don't expect to get all the way to tier 100 by the end of the season, but I should easily be able to snag some more stuff.

@Shellcore, Psyonix are adding it to Rocket League soon aswell.

@BenAV If that is the case, then that's really good.

@DABYX Certainly. If there absolutely has to be microtransactions, then cosmetics are certainly the least corrosive. Fortnite sidesteps a lot of my peeves due to being free to play. If it wasn't, I'd argue cosmetic unlocks should be part of the natural progression.

@starman292 This is probably my main issue with it. When you find an infinitely purchasable coupon contains material more fun than the vanilla game itself, I would question the designers view. They want people to buy this pass. Does this impact their design philosophy?

@Dizzy_Boy Thanks for the add. Can't wait for devs to come up with ways to make this system more toxic for gamers. I remember when random loot was exciting! My immediate example being the toy capsule machines in Shen Mue.

I've thought about grabbing the pass for 5, just not sure I'd get enough play time in to justify it. I've played 4 times this month, for a total of 9 matches. Although last night I did manage to rank #2 without much effort at all, that was exciting!

Ooh double xp and on a weekend. My wife and kids will be happy.

@Shellcore apart from a few obvious duplication scammers, I rarely see anyone being toxic in my trading groups. Mainly because they get booted pretty quickly.
Tbh, though, the harder to get in game items do turn people into greedy, selfish little scumbags. It's not hard to find stories of this on youtube, even on the official Rocket League forums where people are crying about being scammed.

I bought it last season and i've only played fortnite a few days, don't plan to buy it again since I got about 0 worth out of the package since I haven't played enough to get stuff. Also on top of that the BS with switch & ps4/pc not being able to use the account soured me even more on the game that I've never been that into. I just don't like the game enough to play it very often unless my buddy wants to play it. However we've been playing Path of Exile instead.

@Dizzy_Boy Apologies, I meant the system itself. For example, how lootboxes went from randomised loot to what they ended up being in Battlefront 2. It was more a compliment on the way Fortnite deals with this system currently, with a watchful eye on how future games integrates this into their systems to extract additional funds through more aggressive means (impact on gameplay etc...) I am glad you have found the community to be mostly agreeable : )
@dougphisig Watch this space. There has been an article over at PushSquare where a senior Sony exec has touched on this. Looks like the backlash has been larger than expected. Maybe a solution is in the works.

Are the server's down? Matchmaking is not working for me today.

@Aven yes, they are having problems. You can check the status by Googling "Fortnite Server Status" and following the first result.

@Grant007 Thankyou

@Azzdama Fortnite is the biggest game there is atm. They get more than enough cash as is. And I don't really care for the cosmetics it has because I'm a faceless character I can't relate to, unlike something like Overwatch where you have plenty of characters to relate to.

@Shellcore I don't know, it IS a free to play game. Revenue has to come in somehow. If nobody bought the season pass, what would happen?

$10 is pretty reasonable for the player who really enjoys the game. That's less than an evening movie ticket and lasts, what, 2 months or a little more? The said movie one just saw was 1.5 - 2 hours and they likely paid $8-15.

@oldmanstauf Maybe I would be happier with it if it was just a subscription. I get they need to make money somehow. I guess its just the idea of locking challenges behind a paywall seem like a far too clever way of bulk selling cosmetics to those who otherwise may not bother. I'm not against the battle pass in Fortnite. I'm more cautious about how other companies may use it in full price games. Above, its future inclusion in Rocket League has been noted which isn't free to play. This is the next logical step for the gaming industry. What's happening now is fine, what's on the horizon doesn't look good.

@GoldenGamer88 "I refuse to invest money in this."

ok.

@Shellcore now I understand your point. I've only been playing Rocket League since January, so I missed alot of the early stuff.
Tbh though, I think most of the toxicity comes from the high rank players, they're the ones who seem to complain the most about it I don't play ranked much, I'm still in bronze. Most of my time is spent in rumble and snow day.

@GoldenGamer88 they get all that cash from cosmetics, and give you the game for free, so I'm not sure why youre so against it.