LEGO Fortnite kits are proving unpopular in more ways than one
Epic Games revealed purchasable LEGO Fortnite kits during an update that took longer than usual, prompting some backlash from fans.
The reveal of LEGO Fortnite kits hasn’t gone down well with some players, for more reasons than just the fact that Fortnite users will likely need to pay to access the kits. Ranging from between 1,900 to 2,500 V-bucks (Fortnite’s in-game currency), although it’s possible to earn V-Bucks without paying real money by playing the PVE mode Save the World or from the Battle Royale mode in the free pass, the fastest way to access the kits will be to buy $19 to $25 worth of V-bucks (with $1 resulting in around 100 V-bucks).
Other than this in-game monetisation, LEGO Fortnite is free to play. Some see this introduction of kits an acceptable cost, with one player writing on X that they’re “not at all upset to see these LEGO kits for purchase”.
“The game is a ton of fun and completely free, and I’m more than happy to support it and get new builds out of it,” they continue. “Thank you so much and I look forward to more of them!”
However, this person seems to be part of the minority, if reactions on X, Instagram, and reddit are anything to go by. In fact, the general reddit discussion post complaining about the purchasable kits has earned nearly 300 upvotes and hundreds of comments discussing the issues people find with the proposed update.
‘I’d rather buy real LEGO sets than digital ones’
It’s always tricky when an initially free game starts to introduce monetisation. Fortnite, and by extension LEGO Fortnite, is free to play, making money by charging for season Battle Passes, skins, and other in-game options. However, paying for building kits is a relatively new concept across all Fortnite modes, with other game modes generally preferring to offer content as part of a package deal when paying for Battle Passes.
This difference hasn’t been missed by LEGO Fortnite players, with one writing on LEGO Fortnite’s Instagram announcement of the new feature: “They [should’ve] just added kits to the battle pass or something. Now the item shop is going to be be full of jam tracks and LEGO kits.”
This fear of these kits being a sign of more and more purchasable content appears to be shared from users across X and reddit as well.
With the minimum price for one kit the equivalent of $19, some players feel that there should be some physical counterpart to the building kits, rather than being wholly digital. One reddit user commented: “Yeah. I’d rather buy real LEGO sets than digital ones with those prices. And these are also limited to LEGO Fortnite survival, not UEFN or other game modes”, earning over 100 upvotes for the point of view. Although physical LEGO Fortnite sets are rumoured for later this year, it doesn’t seem that there are any physical counterparts for these specific building kits at this point.
“This game is officially dead,” agreed another person on Instagram “Locking new content behind a paywall when the game is starving for new content on top of the insane high-complexity server issues and the long list of other problems that still haven’t been addressed is just ridiculous.”
‘I will only invest in this mode once there’s improvement in bugs/glitches/crashes‘
Indeed, the fact that the update that introduced LEGO Fortnite kits was one of the longest down periods for any batch of fresh content highlights that having to pay for content that appears to be causing glitches is a tough pill to swallow for some players. LEGO Fortnite was down for 19 hours to implement the latest content update, where it normally takes around two hours.
When the content did come through, some players saw only blue screens, rather than the new LEGO Fortnite kits, as in the embedded tweet below.
“I like spending in Fortnite, but…I will only invest in this mode once I see some improvement in the metagame and bugs/glitches/crashes, especially when the sets are this expensive,” wrote one person on reddit, highlighting that even those used to paying for in-game content are not on board with this latest update from Epic Games.
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Just a note, you can’t actually gain V-Bucks in Save the World unless you have a legacy version of Save the World. Purchasing Save the World now will not net you any V-Bucks by playing it.