
If you want to keep your Fortnite experience as free as possible, Epic has now temporarily added a gifting feature, allowing your friends to send you gifts. If you are prepared to empty your own pockets, you can also send gifts yourself.
In the latest Fortnite news update, Epic explained how this new feature would be trialled for a week alongside version 6.31. To test it out, all you have to do is head over to the Item Shop, choose an item to purchase, select "Buy As A Gift" and choose a friend to send it to. As a bonus, you can add a custom message. Then, the next time your friend logs in, they'll receive the gift box. There's currently a good selection of outfits and emotes on the shop you can gift. Again, this will only run for a trial period of a week.

Before you can gift, you'll need to ensure you have multi-factor authentication enabled. In terms of the finer details, you need to be friends with someone for at least 48 hours before you can send them a gift, and you can't send more than three gifts within a 24 hour period. All gifts purchased are not refundable. and you can only gift items that are available in the Item Shop. If you don't want to receive gifts, you can disable the option in your account settings.
Have you been playing Fortnite on Switch recently? Will you be sending a gift to someone on your friend list? Tell us below.
[source epicgames.com]
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Don't play Fortnite though xP
Niceeeeee! Gifting feature for Fortnite but I doubt I will be forking any money to give a gift to anyone let alone even spending a lot on V bucks it's insanely expensive just to buy one outfit or glider Lol hopefully down the line we will be getting at least something for free as a gift Christmas time
Can I gift someone V Bucks? Doesn't seem like it.
I've already gifted any interest I have in this title to the world
What an outdated system. Why not keep this feature?
If I received a gift from CrossFit Master, I wouldn’t open it.
@Latinogamerchiz0 Good feature but its soooooo specific, its too bad I can't gift battle pass skins or items.
Why would they ever take such a feature away? Seems like a great way to squeeze more money out of this crazy fad.
Hey, I mean if anyone wants to gift me something hit me up. In all seriusness, I'm so glad this is out. Nearly EVERY day I have a million videos about gifting in my reccomended due to how the YT algorithim favors them. Let the clickbait cease today! HAZZAH!
Edit: Now that I think about it, this will make Christmas SO much more easy for my far away friends.
People who desperately want gifts in this game "I'm gonna join fill squads and be in a default skin and say I am new, and say please gift me stuff!"
Well I won't do that, but I have a feeling some people might do something like that. But they will probably fail on getting a stranger to gift them.
Also it kinda sucks that you can't gift stuff you bought for yourself and give it to someone else after.
Who remembers when you could gift games in the Wii shop, would have been nice if it had moved onto the eShop.
As for fortnite, shame they aren't keeping this in. I'd be happy to send my nephews a few bits from my Switch to their PS4 at christmas, it would feel like more of a christmas present that way.
Hey, that's pretty good.
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