Fortnite gamers vented at Epic Games for possibly promoting something misleading with a recently launched Piz Locker Bundle. The shop rotation showed the Fiendish Wand Pickaxe in one of its promotional pictures, but the aforementioned pick was not included with the purchase. And THE GAMERS ARE VERY UNHAPPY ABOUT IT.
This can very likely bring up issues of promotion and advertisement once again. But wait, the MHA bundle had a similar issue where the pictures showed the bioluminescent Jellie backbling, but it was never available in reality. One of the angry ones said he even had to resort to a refund ticket for it and called it the maddening.
Now the whole matter has sparked a heated debate over whether this constitutes false advertising. Some claim since V-Bucks are bought with real currency, this is already a legal matter, and Epic must provide whatever is presented in the shop images. Somebody wrote: “It’s illegal to claim your product is one thing but sell something else” in reference to bait-and-switch.
On a different note, these players grieve over locker bundles in general. “Why does every other lame locker bundle use the same exact glider?” one player sighed. Elsewhere, a player snorted and quipped, “Is there any locker bundle that doesn’t use the same 15 items?” Such lack of variety seems to be on everybody’s lips within the Fortnite community.
Some of the players are trying to cash in on this. One excited tweet said, “QUICK BUY IT AND GET THE COMPENSATION,” suggesting that Epic might be giving away free refunds and bonuses to anyone that bought the bundle because of the misleading picture. That would follow shortly after other occasions where Epic rewarded players for such errors.
The Fiendish Wand Pickaxe has truly become symbolic of a thorn in the side. Some declare they have to have an “OG Halloween style” version; others say any style will do for them now. “Listen, idrc, I’ll take an OG style for the fiendish wand,” one player tweeted, laughing.
Epic Games has yet to give an official statement regarding the issue, but there are reports that the problematic image has been “recovered” (most likely meaning removed or replaced). This has flared up the mood in the communities so much but unbating as well, most community members feel that things of this sort just continue without consequence.
The controversy comes in the middle of the build-up of massive attacks on goalie bundles. They are considered repetitive and uninspired; one player, in an ironic tone, mumbled, “Who is bundle ???” panicked with a facepalm emoji. Calls for more eccentric bundles, like those of PIZO and SquatingDog, who are apparently way more “outlandish.”
As the debate rages on, it becomes increasingly evident that Fortnite players want the procured policy of in-world purchases to be more transparent, handled openly, and fairly by Epic Games. Might this latest scene in the incident be the basis for some changes? Hopefully, it will, but for sure, the community will not stray from pointing fingers at the perceived unfairness. Some community members are even linking their increasing outcry with lawsuits over misleading purchases, so perhaps that is something Epic will want to tread very lightly.
