Fortnite’s Star Wars season has simply dropped its largest new pores and skin but from a galaxy far, far-off — and shocked followers by locking it behind a 1.28 million XP grind.
Darth Jar Jar turned in the stores from Fortnite’s Store over the weekend, but solely after you earn the flexibility to take action. And even then, after accruing that 1.28 million XP, Darth Jar Jar nonetheless prices 1500 V-Bucks (round $13).
Fortnite has locked skins behind an XP requirement earlier than, but solely performed so as soon as in latest years and never with a pores and skin that had been anticipated as one of many key beauty releases of this shortened Star Wars season.
A number of weeks in, there’s now much less time for gamers to get the XP wanted to nab Darth Jar Jar (Fortnite’s Star Wars season ends on June 7), and anybody who had managed to complete their battle go already now has a recent chunk of stage grinding to go.
“I used to be so hyped for this pores and skin and was nice with it being behind a pay wall, in spite of everything it’s simply one other pores and skin,” wrote one fan on reddit, in an extended thread devoted to Darth Jar Jar’s launch. “But this complete locked behind an XP wall is ridiculous. You need me to earn the best to present you cash? I instantly closed the sport.”
One other frequent grievance is the truth that Darth Jar Jar has been launched alongside an everyday Jar Jar Binks pores and skin, which doesn’t have an XP requirement but nonetheless prices a separate 1500 V-Bucks.
Along with the varied equipment for each Sith and Gungan variants of this pores and skin, you would select to pay 6,500 V-Bucks for all the things Jar Jar Binks. Which is so much.
“Common Jar Jar alone is 20 {dollars},” one other fan wrote. “If you’d like each that s**t is 52 complete ass {dollars} for one thing that must have simply been 1 pores and skin with 3 types.”
Others, in the meantime, have countered to say that Jar Jar is just a beauty possibility — and there isn’t any want to purchase him in any respect in the event you do not need to. Ignore him, and your Fortnite locker will likely be as freed from the character as George Lucas needed to be after the backlash to Phantom Menace hit.
“It wasn’t that arduous to earn the XP took me round 8/9 hrs,” wrote a 3rd fan. “I had no plans on Saturday. I did it in 3 sittings, but all in in the future. I performed Rocket Racing and Ranked and did Alignment Challenges to farm as a lot XP as doable.
“Nothing is making anybody get each merchandise in the Store you possibly can simply choose and select, and the actual fact he was simply 1500 V-Bucks when Deathstroke was 1,800 V-Bucks I wasn’t bothered in any respect by the worth. I used to be pissed off at first than I realised after a pair hrs that I had over 300,000 XP already.”
Fortnite’s Star Wars season continues this week with a deal with Mandalorian warriors, and the highly-anticipated launch of a brand new customisable Mandalorian pores and skin in the sport’s Store subsequent.
Epic Video games’ battle royale will conclude its time in the Star Wars galaxy with a dwell narrative occasion on June 7 — which followers imagine will see them boarding the Demise Star that has been hovering ominously over the sport’s Island for the reason that begin of the season.
Earlier this month, Epic Video games’ ongoing feud with Apple escalated after Fortnite was “blocked” from returning to the iPhone App Retailer in the US.
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