On: Fortnite and the Good Life

[steveklabnik]

You can only buy cosmetics, that’s correct. If you buy a battle pass you get extra challenges but you get no in-game advantage for spending money.

[ehnto → steveklabnik]

Kids love the cosmetics though and it becomes as important to some of then as having real gameplay advantages would be. So it's good for the gameplay but I am not sure it is any less nefarious.

[steveklabnik → ehnto]

Absolutely; I don’t think this absolves Fortnite or anything, just trying to make the details more clear.