Fortnite's Peak skin is nearly 3 times the price of Peak itself after V-Bucks price hike: "That's actually a slap in the face to the Peak developers"

In a peak crossover, friendslop climbing hit Peak now has skins in Fortnite. But before you decide to make your character an orange, round-headed boyscout, you should know the price is almost three times a copy of the multiplayer game.

No, seriously, it's all in the V-Bucks. A Twitter user did the math: The Peak Scout skin will run you 2,000 of Fortnite's fictitious currency. That's $22.40, by the current rate for V-Bucks, or 2.8 whole copies of Peak on Steam, which costs $7.99 as standard. The easiest option for buying it is actually slightly more expensive, as there's a 2,400 V-Bucks pack available for $22.99.

If this skin became available before the recent mark up on virtual dollars in Fortnite, then it'd cost $17.80. That's only 2.2 copies of Peak, something I'm sure we can agree is a much less egregious proposition. Capitalism!

Epic Games recently revealed that Fortnite was going to become a bit more expensive, introducing the first mark up in several years. In-game currency is pricier across the board, something the company maintains is necessary for the planned expansion of the already mammoth shooter in the months and years ahead.

While this is all to be expected in an age of industry instability and increased emphasis on games being live-service, it doesn't make seeing it spelled out any easier. It's amazing that a game like Peak is being exposed to so many people through Fortnite, but seeing the price, and knowing that Aggro Crab and Landfall won't be seeing any of it, definitely makes it bittersweet.

"That's actually a slap in the face to the Peak developers," says one response on Twitter. "Like: 'Hey, we at Fortnite feel our skin of your character is worth well over double the price of your fuck ass game.'"

That said, I'm kind of here for Scout beaming Goku across the island. It's all about the nonsense idiosyncrasies, really. Peak.

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