Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Guns: For Teens Only”.
Fortnite is restricting access to certain skins wow. Oh me, dang. It fortnite. How dare you it’s so juicy. Yesterday, fortnite players, fortnite players found that skins in their locker had a new warning symbol on them. Alongside a notice that those items could be used could only be used in areas rated 12 plus uh for teens only 12 that count as a teen, I don’t think um the the change was made without warning, but epic games has since confirmed that only around 7 % of their skin Library are now age restricted. The consens consensus among players is that skins featuring specific Weaponry like pistols or knives, are the ones that are going to be restricted from islands with a lower age rating.
Oddly skins, like Michael Myers, the fictional serial killer are not actually restricted uh because I guess he’s just wearing a mask: um yeah, what’s wrong with a hockey player, that’s Ken Dryden, true yeah. According to Epic, next year, skins will uh be able to auto adjust an appearance depending on the rating of the area. Epic has been accused of ner.
Oh, this is a totally different thing. Um epic has been accused of nerfing omn man’s uh butt, his glutes uh. His glutes are rather flat in the Epic Avatar um.
I don’t know how this has anything to do with the previous part of this, but uh. There’S a question saying: should epic return omn man’s cake and I think yeah, why not um? I I just thought this was like funny, because the discussion question was: these skins have significant monetary value to the kids who bought them should they be offered a refund on their value? This is the big one for me, because if we’re gon na talk abouts, I mean yeah sure are adults buying them come on. I’M kidding, I’m kidding, I’m kidding.
If you guys buy fortnite skins, that’s fine! I get it. But, oh I see yeah my my my my point is like this is. I think the real conversation here is if, if you’re going to treat your digital merchandise like it, has some kind of value the same way that physical merchandise would, then I think it’s not an entirely unfair expectation as the buyer of aforementioned merchandise, that it should, if It doesn’t retain its value, necessarily retain its other intrinsic qualities over some period of time, and I think we saw this play out. We saw this expectation play out that a skin would continue to operate the same way that it did in the past, when valve launched. Cs2 they didn’t have to make the Skins carry over from CS, go to CS2, but I think they correctly assessed that the community outcry would be immense if all of a sudden people weren’t going to be able to enjoy the skins that they’ve spent $ 10 $ 100 $ 1,000 $ 10,000 on from a day-to-day basis and some for some people that enjoyment means playing with them for other people.
That enjoyment just means looking at their collection right like we can’t I’m I’m not here to I’m not here to judge the the value of collecting skins right now. I think I’ve said enough on that in the past, but what I will judge is the company’s responsibility to maintain some level of continuity for that product that you have purchased, and I honestly think this kind of sucks I get what they’re trying to do: they’re recognizing That the game, it’s not restricted for the whole game, though it’s it’s restricted specifically for islands that have a, I don’t know anything about fortnite. But I think islands are like custom games. I don’t think they’re um like standard matches, and it’s for islands that have a a low age range um yeah, it’s not it’s not like. They took the skins from them. You can still play the main game.
You can still play probably the vast majority of the game: um, just not islands that are age restricted to 12 plus, okay, counter point: let’s say you paid for an expensive VR chat, Avatar to be created for you and all of a sudden, VR chat came to You and said: okay yeah, you can’t you can’t wear that skin. In you know certain age group um chat rooms. I have a strong feeling. There are probably VR chat, avatars that probably shouldn’t be available.
Okay, but I was getting. I was getting to that. I was getting to that there look. There are two obvious counterpoints to this. One is, if you’re an adult hanging out in like a Minor’s.
You know chat room or whatever, then, quite frankly, it should have nothing to do with the Avatar you’re wearing you probably just shouldn’t, be there okay number one on so I’m talking about kids who own this this skin right: okay, okay, we we we chill! We good number two is in my example, that was a third party skin, but this is a first party skin. So this is as though VR chat themselves had a service where you can buy an avatar and then all of a sudden, you can’t wear it to your favorite chat, room or island or whatever the case may be, because my understanding is these islands can, in many Cases contain social experiences as well as just you know, raw hardcore gaming experience is that correct? I am not a fortnite expert. I don’t even pretend to be one, no clue one one of the thing that confuses one of the things that confuses me the most about this um.
As someone who doesn’t know anything about fortnite um is even the box. Art has guns on it. Doesn’T it? I think so like doesn’t the aren’t, aren’t the people standing next to the the fortnite logo? Don’T they have firearms and then like if they can play like? Is there actually an account for fortnite, where you can’t actually play the Battle Royale yeah like they have there’s a there’s. A shotgun right next to the logo, like, like part of part of me, is like yeah sure I don’t know. Maybe they they should be able to have age restricted skins for like kid lobbies. But what? Why is? Why is anyone maybe, on those islands, they’re walkie-talkies, but but like you, have to click on the thing to launch the game like you’d have to go into the epic game store which uses tiles for for their game? Launching, if I remember correctly, it’s been a while since I’ve used it um but like, but I just I don’t know I I I feel like once you even like the loading screen to launch the game. I I feel like probably has firearms on it.
Um it ju, I don’t know I. I understand the idea of trying to consider what content is going to be available in kid lobbies. I deeply question the idea of fortnite having kid lobbies at all um.
It doesn’t make any sense to me. Here’S an example. So Farming, Simulator, okay, so here’s an island you can go to crafting survival, grow and sell crops, rated everyone mild, fantasy violence. You still have to launch the game team fight, teen yeah – I don’t know this just seems like the kind of thing that was probably a lot of development effort when it would have been simpler to just put a disclaimer that says: okay, kids, don’t don’t use this And then the kids just would just like they always did, and then everyone could have just kind of gotten gone about their day um, but maybe I’m maybe I’m missing something here.
Yeah, I don’t know you could make it so that anyone with a kid account um can’t see the Skins um that are restricted if you’re on one of those islands, so it shows like or something one of our children on staff Ariel from the lab says. I’M 90 % sure that Skins are banned in the main game uh, which is where most of the players are so 12 plus islands are rare, wait what Skins are banned in the main game? Well, not all! Okay, Ariel. What are you talking about? I’M going to need a little bit more clarification, I don’t think is right, I’m 90 % sure Skins are banned in the main game. Oh it’s like most of the fortnite content is all ages and some stuff is 12 plus where you can use the Skins.
Is that right, I’m just going to have to wait for Ariel to clarify what the heck he’s talking about. He knows a lot about engineering stuff, though he’s he’s really good at that stuff stuff and he’s really good at that hockey game that we played oh Slap, Shot rebound no kidding yeah yeah yeah. I don’t know how he got that good that fast, but he’s very good at it. Ariel just says yes, yes, what an answer! Brother you’re, I’m trying to help you out here, I’m trying to help you out.
Oh no world class. Please clarify what is a children on staff? I just mean he’s really young. The main game is all ages.
I think he says okay well yeah, but you can. You can use skins in the main game. So, okay, okay, I think his point.
I think I get it. I think I get it. I think his point is that um these these, like custom game modes, very few of them are going to be 12 plus because most people would just be playing the main game.
Yeah all right. That makes sense. Well, at any rate, fortnite news: let’s move on .