Don't let FOMO get the best of you. Play games to have fun instead of playing them to complete a checklist of choirs. #fortnite #fortniteog #jimboislost
there was a skin called the singularity and to unlock it you needed 90 fortbytes so basically 90 quests, then to unlock the full armour 100 fortbytes, and the extra colours required doing even more quests. i think this skin would count as a rare skin since you had to have dedication to go do all the quests.
OMG i remember that. I never finished the bytes though because that's around when i took a break and didn't come back until the Marvel season. I believe i only have the first style because i didn't complete it. I wish they did more quest like that
Visitor maybe can count, because the quest "Search 7 chests in Risky Reels" was extremely difficult, but I don't know if it was harder or easier than singularity styles
I think that nowadays people buy skins only to flex or hoping that one day their skins will become exclusive, but I think that if you buy a skin it's because you actually liked it and you don't care if it's exclusive or not. As you said at the end of the day, skins are only cosmetics. Good video btw.
I’m lucky and I have some pretty old battlepass skins but I don’t even wear the older one because there just no very good I wear season 5 skins but not really season 3 and 4
I think the one exception to what you said is omega with the lights Omega with the lights was not just “oh I played in season 4 and got tier 100 in the battle pass” omega with the lights was “I had the dedication to play so much fortnite that I got to level 80 when almost nobody else did” Technically it’s not skill related but I consider it a true flex because it was so hard to do (I don’t have omega with lights but I have carbide with lights)
yeah no shit That took me like 6 hours of grinding a day for 25 days or something like that, more or less the time I had since the game released on switch and till the end of the battle pass Gotta be on top with the fortbytes in the "took some big ass dedication" top 3 In other words holy shit that was nuts but it was so worth it, I love the lights way more than anything else in the game LOL
I had FOMO up until Chapter 2 season 1. Before that season I ended up unlocking literally every single battle pass skin. Then when C2S1 came out,I ended up missing out on the Scratch skin's "fully corrupted" style and I was bummed for a minute ,but eventually I realized it was a blessing because I no longer felt the need to have the perfect locker. I mean, I still unlocked every BP skin after that, but their superstyles were no longer a priority.
Dead by daylight is a very good example. There are skins called legacy they were acquired by grinding the old blood web in 2016 it costed 50 mil just to get through one blood web I believe. Something happened were a lot of people lost there files so the devs suggested too have back up files. This didn’t really help so if you lost these skins in grinding that means they could not do anything to recover them. There are other skins or cosmetic pieces for individual killers and survivors that are” very rare” but they decided to give some of those to the community.
Legacy is so rare that most times people see someone using it they just automatically assume they are cheating, which is pretty fair because in my experience they usually are.
Leveling the battle pass chapter one was a lot harder then doing it now. Now it tells you where everything is. Now I complete all weekly quests in an hour. It also depends on what battle pass skin. Like for example omega, the omega skin isn’t much of an achievement. But maxing out the skin to get the lights was almost impossible to get. So some one who has the omega lights had to really work hard to get them. I wouldn’t call them rare skins, but definitely a challenge to complete
Geralt was kind of a pain in the butt to get if you were only playing the game casually until this point. Eventually, they gave it to everyone who had the battle pass due to an error in quest coding iirc -- my first thought wasn't "BRO THEY GAVE IT TO EVERYONE" but more like "i cant believed i busted my own balls for 3 hours straight for something that i would've gotten anyway 😿"
Challenges back than was also mandatory to level up in the battle plus the way to get the nonus skin was doing most of the weekly Challenges but not the bonus skin has its own set of Challenges you you can lecel up easily just by playing super casually.heck you dont evwn have to play battle royal you cN get more ep playing in creative now
I would say the kymera skin is so dumb to max out but it is somehow my favorite skin as it has unique way of customization. The issue was to make random people to hit the stupid crystal chests to get the additional styles every week
@@Knighter6i only went for the stuff i wanted and dont entirely regret it. like i have all they eyes, armor colors, and heads, but like one emblem and none of the skin colors.
@@dive.cats-i literally only went for the armour colours and emissive light colours. The back bling looks great with almost anything if you have the colour options, but I'll never understand why they made the skin's styles so hard to unlock
It shows your dedication. Max level omegas, carbides, drifts, ragnaroks, etc, they’re cosmetics that look cool but also show how hard you worked for them.
@@Aigle662frileux it’s not flexing/bragging it’s just showing that you put in the work and now you look cool. I’ve never heard anyone say O.G is pathetic until now.
there are few skins that show your hard work actually, like purple light omega full armor skin, or full gold never skins . but talking about old battle pass skins they also show that youre a real "veteran" at the game from the first days that it launched, so thats tbh pretty cool to have too.
I think it only works that way assuming the person who wears the skin has actually actively played from every season from that point. I know a few people with Reapers in their locker who only played for a few seasons then quit and then came back a few chapters later. (or sometimes, quit altogether) so it's hard to tell whether they really played super long or just only played during that specific time frame.
the only skins/styles i would truly consider to be "Rare" are things that required an extra unlock condition beyond simply Battle Pass Progress Say for example secret skins, Visitor and such, where you had to do all the weekly challenges from the first 7 or so weeks, or maxed styles of stuff like Omega or Singularity where you had to get to Level 80 in Season 4, or collect all 100 Fortbytes in Season 9
I have maxed out purple light Omega, its one of my Rarest skins and I wear it all the time, however I only use it because I really like the looks. I would say Omega Knight looks much cooler but I dont have it. This video is very true though, and I agree. Good Quality
@@DDDTJ Cant find a single person wearing *MAX* Omega let alone normal Omega, not only that but I always see people saying "omg omega!" when they join my party. idk maybe chapter 2 players lol.
@@juehjuI got the mask, was so close to getting the lights too. Quick question though, how would you feel about it coming back for players who didn’t unlock all of the styles?
@@spartan-1210 Its a battlepass, nothing should come back for anything, everyone had there chance and if ya missed it oh well. I missed the robot dance in season 3 by like 2 tiers, it haunts me till this day.
My first ever skin was Drift. And is by far my favorite skin. However, that account is on the family PS4 account when I was little. So, now older with my own account after 3 years of not playing Fortnite and account merging not being a thing I can never really play my favorite skin. I see where it's exclusive argument has valid points but to me I always find that players would be more happy and Epic would make a lot more money if old BP skins were purchasable. Destiny 2 for example has had battlepasses for a decent while now and I have a handful of the first batch of the exclusive ornaments/skins from the first couple of seasons. Recently they did in fact release a bundle that included the ornament/skin set from the third season BP they made. The bundle was kind of poopy for the price but I saw a lot of positive feedback of D2 bringing back old ornaments/skins.
While I don't play destiny 2 myself at this point I think Epic would benefit from bringing back old battle pass skins, if they want to keep renegade and aerial rare thats fine and I think would be the only ones to stay rare.
Ya i would love for epic to bring back there older battle pass skins even if it comes in a bundle of some sort. Maybe even bring back old battle passes in general kinda like how Halo infinite does it.
@@Jimboislost I recently spoke on this and had the idea of putting a Battle Pass section of the item shop, just like the faily section, where it would include a couple full price skins, some emotes or a pickaxe. That way, the people who got it through the pass got a WAY better deal, but we can still own the cosmetics if we really want them. Literally everyone wins and Epic gets more money.
as somebody who owns tons of rare cosmetics such as renegade raider and and purple skull, i somewhat agree. stuff like maxed omega you needed to spend hours grinding to get it which invalidates your point, however i agree renegade raider looks like a homeless person
this happens a lot in the art industry as clothing brands are sought out just because the cost of the clothing is expensive and some people just want it because its expensive and not barely look into the art (clothing) such as supreme where it was a really nice brand until the owners of brands stop making stuff and begin making stuff blinded by money
Another thing about it is when those people stop playing nobody is gonna remember as that one person who had almost every OG skin because they don't matter since it's literally just something in a game that isn't important. Plus they aren't really rare when you are able to possibly just buy someone's account that is selling it, even though they don't allow it some people still get around that. So rare skins really don't matter at all.
You're right except for the few exceptions like full Omega or fully golden Agent Peely which required insane amounts of dedication or tournament specific skins
At this point I would want Epic to just release old battle pass skins, if people want to show their og status just use umbrellas if they care that much. I think keeping old skins rare is just dumb at this point. It would also mean account selling wouldn't be such a big thing since people could you know spend the money and get the items. When it comes to rare items I see the fortnite community as much worst because of Skull trooper getting his og style since now kids are like "LEt tHiS SkIN gET A raRe StYle!??!?!?" Like people say this should have an og style when most of them wont even get it. You made a good point when it comes to people using old skins, a lot of people will use it because of it being rare. Like my most wanted skin is omega and I don't have it, but If I did have it and all of season 4 battle pass stuff I would use it because I enjoy those items and not because their rare, my favorite emote is orange justice since it was the last item I got before that season ended.
Unfortunately Epic will never bring back old battle passes simply because it makes them a lot of money if they just released a skin similar to skins like Omega or black knight. This current season is the perfect example with them bringing back the old map and all the battle pass skins being different takes on older skins.
@@Jimboislost Oh for sure we won't probably ever see them again. I think the only reason we would is if Epic decide "hey lets make so much money in a few hours" since those would probably be some of the most bought if they did. At least that's what I think. And yes collab skins and etc exists but in terms of fortnite original skins that's what's I think could happen. Another point of them just being able to randomly bring back battle pass stuff is how rogue agent just randomly came back (which still annoys me since it was my main skin)
@@pikssy9042 I'm not crying? lmao Its the fact it was a starter and randomly got put into shop when it shouldnt have been and even then people had to buy it for 15, it was years ago and I dont care lol
I joined really really late in C4 S3 and before I would watch my brother play in 2018 and I have completed every battle pass since C4 S3 and I loved most of the skins, not for their rarity, but because they looked really cool.
100% ,this is true. I liked how you boiled it down to, you should just have fun no matter what skin you have. There is no need to brag about the skin if all the matters is having fun playing the game. Nicely done video.
I’d say that the reason a lot of us do value then so much is cause skins can make the game a lot more fun. We’ve all seen the memes of Joker killing goku with a lightsaber and then hitting the Griddy. Especially for collabs it can add a lot to the experience.
I agree with a lot. When you die one day, you can't take those "rare" skins with you. We don't own anything here while we're alive. Life and time is temporary. I like to play fortnite, but I'm not gonna come off to where I feel good flexing and putting people down for the skin they have. Everything has an ending one day. That goes for fortnite as well. So overall, I agree.
I agree on the destiny part as someone who solo flawless'd spire of the watcher after an unknown amount of times. The difference between earning something that takes dedication and skill in contrast to earning something that simply only just takes time and doesn't exactly need a plan is extremely significant and in conclusion, fortnite skins don't matter at all simply because it doesn't affect the playing field at all (unless the skin is glitched but those cases are extremely rare nowadays).
This is probably one of the most even mannered reasonable sounding videos / takes on skin rarity that I've ever seen on this platform. It's very refreshing and I can relate to 90% of what you say. I like skins only because I like what they look like and I don't really care whether they're still obtainable, or haven't been in the shop for a long time or even have been blacklisted. I'm sure the comment section is going to be riddled with people talking about the skins that required more effort than just completing levels, but at the end of the day, it really just boils down to you played the game, you got the skin, if someone else didn't, so what? I skipped a lot of battle passes just because I simply didn't like the items in it, the ones that I completed were more because I had a lot of free time to fill, but definitely not so a few years down the road I can parade around in front of other people at party Royale to show them what they can't get. I know you mentioned that people aren't necessarily toxic about skin ownership and other cosmetics and emotes, but definitely there is a large percentage of people that are. I've been in lobby with people all they talk about the entire game is how they have this skin and how the other people in the group are trash because they don't. It's kind of sad. I've seen people who wear a certain skin for ages that hasn't been in the item shop for a while and then all of a sudden it comes back, and all of a sudden they never wave it again. What changed? Nothing, nothing at all, I personally wouldn't care if they brought back any battle pins that I have and put them in the item shop like a lot of people would. If I have it, I'll be happy that other people will get an opportunity to enjoy it as well, if I don't, it's probably because I didn't want it in the first place. Cosmetics should be about the wearer, not everybody else. If more people understood thatthey would enjoy the game a lot more and worry a lot less about what they think other people are thinking about them and their locker size/rarity.
Unavailable skins are only really "rare" in the sense that they're desirable because they haven't been available in a long time, they're essentially just a statement of when you've played, and invested money in the game. A skin can be considered rare because of several different reasons. For example, when it was last available, how it's obtained, or how difficult it is to obtain it. Agent Peely's golden agent style is a good example of a skin that's considered rare because of how difficult it was to obtain. Reaching 300 levels in any season isn't easy. At the end of the day though, they are all just cosmetics. They only hold as much value as you allow them to.
"reaching 300 levels in any season isn't easy." i wouldn't say any season, since chapter 3 every single kid who knows how to input a creative mode code will be level 1000 sadly
I agree with this. Tbh I don't mind the current monetization (maybe because I'm just more a part of the newer generation of gamers) but people act like buying into that system is cooler than it actually is. Most of the cosmetics that are considered rare don't even look good (Renegade Raider is a perfect example of this).
Tbh I think fortnite has a bigger skin problem which are “sweaty” skins like for some reason people buy all of these skins that are just the simplest most boring skins ever
A change that Apex Legends made a few years ago that I love is battle pass items aren't exclusive, they can return at any time in the shop. It's more just getting the battle pass gives it all cheaper and earlier
Well said dude. Unfortunately those who need to hear it the most are probably to busy having a tanty, yelling at their parents to get them more V-bucks
If only someone made a video about this 2 years ago. I had so much FOMO. This is my third season of me not giving a damn about missing out its crazy how a game can drive you crazy.
honestly i think this was the exact point Tfue was trying to make all those year backs with the not buying cosmetics thing after his og account got banned. And also because in that era people made so much fun of people who didnt have skins like oh my god.
my life goal is to draw and animate, and at the peak of my craft I want to create a character that people love like I love Toji from Jujutsu Kaisen, Deku from BNHA, Roland from Library of Ruina, just my little life story but my point is, I don't care if my skins matter something for the community, if Im OG or not, as long as they matter to me
Funny enough the only things i got the show off that i am dedicated to fortnite are my banners, i got the level 100 banner for season 9+10 (and if u remember getting to level 80 was consider hard), and a lot of other save the world banners are that are very very time consuming, i am proud of myself for getting 'em.
Agreed. Even though I really don't like playing the same skin as everyone else. I really would like for Fortnite to bring back some of the skins that were missed if we didn't play earlier seasons. Update em, merge em (Omegarok) or something; so newer players can get some of these characters.
I agree with you that outfits don’t really mean anything other then them being rare, but the reason they have so much value is due to the same reason pawn shops and auctions are still in business. Yes they’re meaningless in an objective way of looking at it. So why do people value them? Simple because it means something to them, something you have over others gives people the delusion that they have something the average person doesn’t have. It sounds stupid but we as a community have decided long ago that the rarer something is the more value it has.
1:57, I agree a bit, but the black night was a skin that was actually hard to unlock because a lot of people sucked. John wick in season 3 I guess was easier to get because more challenges. But rarity makes something cool, how cool is it to see a laferrari? It’s rare so it’s cool, get me? 😂
While few people did that early in the game everyone always seem to forget you've always been able to buy tiers in the battle pass so while plenty of people did "work for it" it does detract from the overall argument about "earning it" since you could have always just bought your way to tier 70 - 100.
There are exclusive skins that required to make very expensive purchases to obtain and also items in save the world that you can only obtain by playing save the world. There are also a couple of items that require you to win professional tournaments
My favorite pick ever from fortnite was from the first ever "refer a friend" event before they even had a name for it. I had no idea it actually was rare the entire time I used it because it was PC only, and incredibly difficult at the time because both you and your friend had to do the same stage before moving on.
@@filipslapoty1992 wow I didn’t know thank for the heads up “genius” he has been playing that long and his aim still that bad is all I’m saying I started in Chapter 1 Season 7 0% aim assist and my aim is better
What’s funny is that there are way harder to get cosmetics like fully corrupted scratch(which I own) + you could say literally every skin is “rare” because they are not able to be bought again after the battle pass ends
that skin is not rare you need to reach lvl 110 thats easy af and you could just buy to tier 100 and play 2 rounds every fortnite skin is easy to get this game has no hard to achieve skins
In Risk of Rain 2 you get character styles by completing the game in the highest difficulty with that particular character, every character has an alternative style to unlock when you complete the game in that manner
I honestly think a better description of what a "rare" skin is is that it's a cosmetic that hasn't came back for a long period of time and it has only been obtainable few times and not a lot of people have it, not necessarily oldest Battle Pass. Also the idea that because shop skins are eventually going to come back one day doesn't necessarily mean that the skins aren't rare, they still hold the same weight rarity wise as any other skin in the game. When you shared your anecdotal on Destiny and how you could get emblems, those are a little different when comparing it to skins but Fortnite has those same things skins wise too. A skin like Indigo Kuno is a Playstation cup reward that was only obtainable for one tournament that you had to place about top 10% in, that is something you can definitely flex because it is the 2nd rarest skin in the game. There are also banners in Fortnite too which get drastically overlooked but hold way more rarity than skins, for example there were French streamer bundles (spray, emoticon, and banner) that had a limited supply of 1000 unless you played their map and got it that way but very few people did that. There were 4 of them as well, so just imagine how hard it would be to obtain all 4 within the small time frame that they were active (3 months but around 5k people were trying to get them all at the same time, also accounting for bots and hoarders.) But if you're looking to flex achievements in Fortnite, just play Save the World. It's a little bit boring, and the achievements take FOREVER to do, but once you finish you'll have a banner you can flex on people.
i missed the spiderman tier 100 skin, basically ter 25 onwards from chapter 3 season 2 and didn't even bought the chapter 3 season 4 battle pass. Man, this battle passes hunt me because I wanted the spiderman and gwen skin so bad
Unfortunate. Your only options now are the Miles and Tom ones i believe. I'm surprised they never added any other spiderman skins from the movie. Like the Noir one
there are a few skins which were only obtainable by competing in and placing in a specific cup, the one that comes to mind is the epicvapple cup that skin is never going to be in the item shop another is the ps5 cup exclusive
Started playing in C3S3, got bummed out by missing some cool skins but the more I play the more I realize that I'd realistically not use any of them and that I'm switching outfits all the time OG skins have no meaning, FOMO is bullshit and I'm here to enjoy the game
Really can’t quite grasp your point here, sure, they weren’t that hard to get in most cases, but they are still rare, they are never coming back and haven’t for 5+ years. Also, I’m glad I found someone else who actually liked chapter 2’s map 😂
I feel like Omega is the only tier 100 who really does matter because the other ones were just getting xp or getting to outlast opponents a certain number of times, don't get me wrong, it did require you to get xp to get his styles and lights but for him, it took a lot of playing to earn his styles while for other tier 100s, you just had to get xp and even if you didn't complete the skin during that season, you could complete it next season anyway (which btw, was a great feature). But that's just my take on this problem.
I got his full armor but never managed to get his lights. I would say getting his helmet was a miracle, I started on Week 4 or 5 of season 4 and it was a massive grind to reach level 100 back then, I think the only reason I even got to his helmet at level 55 or something was because I played a LOT with people who had the 125% XP boost... sure, I wish I had the lights but y'know. it was basically impossible for me.
I sort of agree however, I’d say that there is at least 1 more skin that could be considered hard to get from an early battlepass: ragnarok, for context the Xp needed for omega’s maxed out lights was around 532000 XP to get to it’s final state, however with ragnarok you would need 500000 XP for it’s final stage with his glowing skull, this makes me think that even if it was easier to get ragnarok it would still show a lot of effort being put in to accuire the final level of the skin just like omega did
This definitely makes sense but i will still unlock every battlepass to atleast 100 and like some og skins like omega required an insane amount of exp where i got lv80 last day of the season
I own Ghoul trooper which a skin that tecnically is "old" from fortnite's first halloween but I never played on that time so I dont own the "OG" variant, and the skin still comes back on halloween And I find it stupid that they gatekeep skins just because u were late on playing and that's why I hate battlepasses in every game I play, I still buy them because I know ill never get the skin if I don't but I just wanna buy a cosmetic I like and call it a day, and if they keep going the battlepass route just do it like Halo: Infinite and allow for people to just buy it even after it goes away
@@pedri5541 I mean Halo Infinite does it perfectly by allowing you to buy them whenever you want and you can activate the certain battlepass you wanna level up to progress it and no one has complained about it, why other games can't? and the only reason battlepasses go away and never return is because of FOMO and player retention the companies do to maintain the games relevant
Tbh Drift was my first ever Skin in Fortnite in general and he is my favorite Skin ever since, I also appreciate all the Spin-Off Skins of him that came out like Summer Drift or Driftwalker, but I don't enjoy to brag with it, I just genuinely love Drift's design.
One of my favorite cosmetics in a game is an orange and black trophy I got for being MVP in a Paintball game long ago.. It's completely unobtainable now, and it really didn't take much skill to get, but it still holds a lot of value in my heart.. I even extracted the model and put it on one of my VRChat avatars.. It is not an item people will notice as "rare" or really notice at all, but it is one that matters to me
I agree, 99.9% of skins are not special. The Indigo Kuno would be an exception since it was completely merit based. Only several thousand have her from the tournament played. Also, anyone who has put a lot of money into the game is not going to get it back.
@@amazoring8269 yeah that still doesn’t answer my question. You had to compete for other fncs items like indigo but they came back and nobody cared if u got a free fncs item that’s gonna come to the shop in the future. So people only care about the skin not how good you are. But the skin itself isn’t all that since all you are getting is a skin and gain nothing out of it only to show off unlike the fncs pickaxe. Actually nvm I sound slow rn actually I forgot you could sell the skin 💀💀🤣
when i got stray i wore it often because it looks very similar to drift, which i like and missed out on. my friend owned drift and would wear it whenever i wore stray just to try and put himself above me. he did not like drift and he was always complaining about it being bulky though he insisted that drift was better than stray (less bulky version of drift) just because it was rare and old.
I own Takara, a skin that hasn't appeared in the shop for close to 900 days and i don't think nothing special of it, i use it sometimes like any other skin because i like it's style but i will be happy if it appears in the shop again so that more people can appreciate it.
imo it isn't about being rare. back in season 3 it was if they have a high tier or old skin, you know they've been playing for a while so you know they are probably going to demolish you. unless you've been playing for a while to but you def wont think they arnt good if they been playing for that long also some people like to sell their accounts which then it does matter cause rare always equals expensive (even tho its against the rules)
I agree with you. Personally, for me I buy and use skins because I like them. How others perceive skins, mine or others, is none of my concern. Yes. I like playing as Princess Lexa, but I didn't get crew because I wanted to hold that over someone or because I'm a sweat. I just liked her vibe. People act like BP and Crew skins are some kind of status symbol, when they really aren't. It's dumb. I don't care. No one cares. The issue is that people think there's value in things where there truly isn't. Its a coping mechanism to justify the time and money they spent, nothing more.
I agree with most of your comment, however I disagree with the there isn't value to a skin part. I've scrolled past many looking for group posts on Xbox were someone would buy your account just for having a couple of rare skins or someone offering to sell their account for a lot of money. People are crazy for those rare skins, I once saw a post offering $250 just for a Black Knight skin, maybe more. Now I don't browse the LFGP anymore, but I'm fairly certain people like that still exist. People be crazy
In my opinion most battle pass skins aren't even rare, if you think about it yeah they never return but the battle pass system is so popular and so many people buy the battle passes, the only battle pass I consider kinda rare is chapter 1 season 2.
I feel like some collab skins will always have their copium moment until they release a new variant of the skin like the new iron man zero bundle, I personally would love a Superman comic skin with cel shade like the animated movies/show
I would say the exception is Exclusive skins, skins like Galaxy, Ikonik, Double Helix, Dark Vertex and many others, cosmetics which you have to purchase an expensive physical item to redeem (typically would have been a console or phone but there were some other more niche cases).
@@justme-oq9qm Well tbh the offer other things with new gen consoles....like on ps5 they give u some new styles for game series skins like the armored style for kratos skin.....which is only for ps5 users
This is a greta video. Completely changed the way I view skins now. I am still going to force my cousin to remember his Epic password as he has the OG John Wick skin lmao
Paradigm, only out for like a week and it was specifically stated that it'll never be released again, it was released season X though so depends, plus its a good looking skin
My Fav. Skin is my Rare OG Purple Skulltrooper! It was my 2nd Skin i've purchased back then. Most of the time i wear this Skin because it looks cool and it's my Favorite! Of course i also wearing it because of the "OG Only" Purple Skulltrooper Design option that Epic released to honor the players who purchased it back in 2017. (Fortnite Season 1) BUT that doesn't mean i only wear this skin, i also wear other skins i like and aren't rare.
This is how people should look at it. Yeah you are going to wear this skin makes sense but if you aren't just running that one skin 24/7 I think is a better overall (if what I said makes any sense lmao)
aw bro rare item shop skins hurt so badly. 😭 basically me and my bro were playing and he pulls out the black widow skin, which hadn't came out since season 8, and im like "wow rare skin!" then, no joke, the next day it comes into the item shop. my friend pretended like he didnt care but i could tell he was dying inside cause of that.
I've never thought of the rarity status flex as a form of influenced FOMO. For me it was always about the personal value of the items that I bought, aka I just bought my favorites. it's nice to know these days that i end up enjoying fortnite's seasons so much that I reach close to tier 100 without even wanting to purchase it, that is a great feeling. The only pass i wish i could have acquired before its season's end was chapter 2 season 3. the live event was one of the greatest lore wise, the map change where the storm border became an ocean for a few days, and tropical/Water themed items in general are always a lot of fun. i agree so much with battle passes being a time consuming effort though, it's a shame that these companies don't introduce more consumer friendly methods of allowing players to earn cosmetics after their event time frame has ended. also Fortnite's superhero skins are atrocious (the ones where it's just a full body skintight suit), if those are your favorites then you don't have good tastes.
Yeah I’ve never understood the hype behind the superhero skins, also the hype behind renegade raider because it’s not that good of a skin only because it hasn’t been in the item shop for years
I've thought about this for awhile and I think more than anything the majority of players just want a unique skin. If you care about what your character looks like, you're gonna spend some time in the character creator making it look as cool as possible, but when there isn't an option to create your own characters, the only way to achieve this is by having a rare skin. The less people wearing the same skin, the more it feels like *your* skin. This weird "my skin is better" attitude doesn't exist if you can customize your character in any way you want. Imagine how much better you could express yourself if you could mix and match the head, torso, legs, etc of the skins you already own.
In save the world you can earn banners though doing certain challenges like in frostnite you play to a certain round with a modifer and at the end you get a banner to show you did that. Kinda like your destiny example. While granted it isn’t a skin and most of the player base won’t know what it is, it’s a cool way to show off to the few that actually know what it is. Also in save the world you can earn pickaxes though upgrading your pickaxes. You only unlock those pickaxes though play time. Even though these aren’t skins they are a cool cosmetic to show off.
TL;DR I agree and I don't think things like this should effect people's enjoyment of a game since it mostly boils down to bragging rights, even though there are some really nice "rare" skins out there. I've been playing Fortnite since... roughly around the Infinity War event. I 100% agree with what you just said, basically every "rare" skin is gotten either thanks to luck by getting it in the item shop on time or it's thanks to you getting the battle pass and playing for a certain amount of time. I've gotten a few rare skins and styles over the years, be it battle pass skins like Drift, Fortnite Crew skins like Zero War Wolverine and a few item shop skins like Travis Scott and World Cup Fishstick (and Demogorgon, up until recently). Whilst yes, there are rare skins I like and there are rare skins and emotes that I missed out on (my only regrets in fortnite are missing out on Orange Justice and Peely), almost every Fortnite cosmetic is... cosmetic, almost none of the emotes and skins actually have an effect on how you play, and the ones that do are quickly fixed (such as the Toy Soldier skin). Whilst yes, there have been a lot of BP exclusive skins that many people would desire (especially collaboration skins like Darth Vader, Superman and Optimus Prime), you shouldn't let it get to you because, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter. At best, you're wearing a skin because you really like it, at worst you're wearing a skin because of bragging rights. And obviously, this isn't to say rare skins are only worn purely for bragging rights. My main skin is the Season 5 secret skin, the Enforcer, there are people who play fortnite who wear skins because they like the skin. Heck, when World Cup Fishstick was in the shop, I didn't really think of it as me getting the skin because of the new Fishstick style, I got it because I wanted Fishstick and the new style was the cherry on top (although I do like to run with the World cup style, since it's a nice style you don't see too frequently in lobbies due to it's rarity). Many people like certain cosmetics, simply because they're nice and wear them not to brag about how old of a player they are, but rather because they really like the skin they're using. Of course, many people unfortunately missed out on some really nice skins and wish they had them, and that's fine. As stated prior, my biggest regret was not getting peely due to how much of a fun skin he is, but again it shouldn't effect your enjoyment of the game, as again, at worst owning a rare skin is bragging rights. Play the game not because you didn't get a rare skin, play it to have fun, be it in a casual or competitive sense. Almost all "rare" items in Fortnite do not have a major effect in how you play and whilst there are some really fun skins, not owning them shouldn't dampen your enjoyment of the game.
its not about showing a resume about your skill and age on the game because you own an old battlepass game, its that if something is older and its slowly becoming something that isn't seen as much as time progresses then it automatically can be considered rare (example being renegade raider, black knight, omega with everything unlocked, elite agent etc) even though it cant be traded or sold so it has no real value therefore its pretty harmless it seems to me that there isn't an actual issue with the logic behind it, but that you just don't care and decided to explain why other people shouldn't.
You have really good points, but missing out on omega lights when you're only a couple thousand xp away kinda hurts. Because I actually like the omega lights and would've equipped them even if they weren't rare. eh you live you learn.
After viewing this video I agree. I used to have the mindset of "Needing a rare skin". Letme date this back to 2017, I have been playing Fortnite since season 1 of 2017. I didnt ever buy skins from all those time periods as I thought they were terrible, while I do regret not buying a couple skins I enjoy. I was at peace, until I started to feel phamo. So I had a bought an account with the seasons I missed on it dating from the season 2 battles pass to season 7. It got tooken away from me, but im glad it did. It was a big wake up call for me as in "Hey, these skins are just cosmetics that can easily be tooken." So I dropped that phase pretty quickly. Im glad that someone was actually able to say this though in a better way I could. Skins, cosmetics. They mean nothing, if you actually love a skin then you love it. Otherwise there is no point in it.
Battlepass skins do not come back. Furthermore its just a collector type of thing and having something new players or ppl who missed it never got. Thats all it is.. people like to have rich accounts
Another skin that actually took a bit of effort was Black Knight. You had to be consistent or really good. I was the former because I abused the daily bp tier system through dailies. One of my favorite skins and I just like the knight skins. Tho also, I like a lot of the older skins just because they have nolstalgia and a unique vibe to them. Like space jonesy
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there was a skin called the singularity and to unlock it you needed 90 fortbytes so basically 90 quests, then to unlock the full armour 100 fortbytes, and the extra colours required doing even more quests. i think this skin would count as a rare skin since you had to have dedication to go do all the quests.
i can agree with that because i have it maxed
OMG i remember that. I never finished the bytes though because that's around when i took a break and didn't come back until the Marvel season. I believe i only have the first style because i didn't complete it.
I wish they did more quest like that
99 fortbytes..
edit: i got 99/100 fortbytes
@@abod4176 it was ages ago i dont remember
Visitor maybe can count, because the quest "Search 7 chests in Risky Reels" was extremely difficult, but I don't know if it was harder or easier than singularity styles
Maxing out Omega was very difficult. The amount of levels required to do so was ABSURD.
Think I have it, full armor right?
@@magical5181 Not just the armor but the lights too.
@@lachlanB323 yeah the last slot, I’m pretty sure I got it. But I thought you used to be able to change the colors of the lights?
@@magical5181 You needed more levels after unlocking the last stage unfortunately. I think it was an extra 10 levels or something.
@@lachlanB323 ah I see, so I’ve probably got one to last
I think that nowadays people buy skins only to flex or hoping that one day their skins will become exclusive, but I think that if you buy a skin it's because you actually liked it and you don't care if it's exclusive or not. As you said at the end of the day, skins are only cosmetics.
Good video btw.
I just bought the fomo 48 hour lewis hamilton bundle so yes ur right
Good on you Play the skin you like not because of rarity good to see people with common sense.
exactly and for what its worth, both is vid and ur comment are food for thought to any and all OG players that love to gatekeep their skins
Facts because for some reason when I would put on like the OG, black widow, for example, people would start freaking out
I’m lucky and I have some pretty old battlepass skins but I don’t even wear the older one because there just no very good
I wear season 5 skins but not really season 3 and 4
I think the one exception to what you said is omega with the lights
Omega with the lights was not just “oh I played in season 4 and got tier 100 in the battle pass” omega with the lights was “I had the dedication to play so much fortnite that I got to level 80 when almost nobody else did”
Technically it’s not skill related but I consider it a true flex because it was so hard to do (I don’t have omega with lights but I have carbide with lights)
also it was one of the hardest seasons to level up in
apparently level 80 then would be level 400 now
@@axtra9561it was a lot of fortnite you had to play bruh I only got to level 68 and I played everyday
yeah no shit
That took me like 6 hours of grinding a day for 25 days or something like that, more or less the time I had since the game released on switch and till the end of the battle pass
Gotta be on top with the fortbytes in the "took some big ass dedication" top 3
In other words holy shit that was nuts but it was so worth it, I love the lights way more than anything else in the game LOL
@@BraxonGG fort bytes were so stupid in my opinion that they caused me to quit the game for 3 years
I had FOMO up until Chapter 2 season 1. Before that season I ended up unlocking literally every single battle pass skin. Then when C2S1 came out,I ended up missing out on the Scratch skin's "fully corrupted" style and I was bummed for a minute ,but eventually I realized it was a blessing because I no longer felt the need to have the perfect locker. I mean, I still unlocked every BP skin after that, but their superstyles were no longer a priority.
This is exactly how I felt too, glad im not the only one hahaha
Same, I didn’t finish and even get the ch4 s2+3 pases
bro same with the same skin aswell
iirc Scratch doesnt have a fully corrupted style. Its just a corrupted style that gets more corrupted overtime with your level.
i got scratch's corrupted variant and barely played. chic was way better looking wish i got that
Dead by daylight is a very good example. There are skins called legacy they were acquired by grinding the old blood web in 2016 it costed 50 mil just to get through one blood web I believe. Something happened were a lot of people lost there files so the devs suggested too have back up files. This didn’t really help so if you lost these skins in grinding that means they could not do anything to recover them. There are other skins or cosmetic pieces for individual killers and survivors that are” very rare” but they decided to give some of those to the community.
But if you do see a survivor or killer with legacy skins you know they are a og pretty rare to see though
As a DbD player, Personally, I like charms. I feel like there are definitely rare charms in the game.
@@enderjackgamingdbd is the only game where charms are actually cool
Legacy is so rare that most times people see someone using it they just automatically assume they are cheating, which is pretty fair because in my experience they usually are.
Hackers can so easily obtain those skins tho
Leveling the battle pass chapter one was a lot harder then doing it now. Now it tells you where everything is. Now I complete all weekly quests in an hour. It also depends on what battle pass skin. Like for example omega, the omega skin isn’t much of an achievement. But maxing out the skin to get the lights was almost impossible to get. So some one who has the omega lights had to really work hard to get them. I wouldn’t call them rare skins, but definitely a challenge to complete
Geralt was kind of a pain in the butt to get if you were only playing the game casually until this point. Eventually, they gave it to everyone who had the battle pass due to an error in quest coding iirc -- my first thought wasn't "BRO THEY GAVE IT TO EVERYONE" but more like "i cant believed i busted my own balls for 3 hours straight for something that i would've gotten anyway 😿"
Challenges back than was also mandatory to level up in the battle plus the way to get the nonus skin was doing most of the weekly Challenges but not the bonus skin has its own set of Challenges you you can lecel up easily just by playing super casually.heck you dont evwn have to play battle royal you cN get more ep playing in creative now
Season 2 didn't have weeklies, so getting tier 70 was impossible if u bought the pass with 1/3 of the time left was impossible. @@jeremybottoms7619
I would say the kymera skin is so dumb to max out but it is somehow my favorite skin as it has unique way of customization. The issue was to make random people to hit the stupid crystal chests to get the additional styles every week
I completed it 100% and i have to say i regret it...
@@Knighter6i dont
@@Knighter6i only went for the stuff i wanted and dont entirely regret it. like i have all they eyes, armor colors, and heads, but like one emblem and none of the skin colors.
@@dive.cats-i literally only went for the armour colours and emissive light colours. The back bling looks great with almost anything if you have the colour options, but I'll never understand why they made the skin's styles so hard to unlock
dont use it that much, but when i do, im certainly glad i grinded for all the options. same with Toona Fish.
It shows your dedication. Max level omegas, carbides, drifts, ragnaroks, etc, they’re cosmetics that look cool but also show how hard you worked for them.
it also shows that you should touch grass
@@FenixMisoginoyou salty?
@@personperson1254 Nah he spitting fact flexing rare skin in kid game is pathetic
@@Aigle662frileux it’s not flexing/bragging it’s just showing that you put in the work and now you look cool. I’ve never heard anyone say O.G is pathetic until now.
@@personperson1254na brah. Grinding a battle pass is mad easy. It's not as hard as you're trying to make it out to be.
there are few skins that show your hard work actually, like purple light omega full armor skin, or full gold never skins . but talking about old battle pass skins they also show that youre a real "veteran" at the game from the first days that it launched, so thats tbh pretty cool to have too.
I think it only works that way assuming the person who wears the skin has actually actively played from every season from that point. I know a few people with Reapers in their locker who only played for a few seasons then quit and then came back a few chapters later. (or sometimes, quit altogether) so it's hard to tell whether they really played super long or just only played during that specific time frame.
the only skins/styles i would truly consider to be "Rare" are things that required an extra unlock condition beyond simply Battle Pass Progress
Say for example secret skins, Visitor and such, where you had to do all the weekly challenges from the first 7 or so weeks, or maxed styles of stuff like Omega or Singularity where you had to get to Level 80 in Season 4, or collect all 100 Fortbytes in Season 9
True you also could never straight up buy them like you could battle bass tiers
I remember wat hing a full walk through of all the fortbyes and spending hours getting them
Would you consider Deadpool secret skin from Chapter 2 season 1 rare??
I have maxed out purple light Omega, its one of my Rarest skins and I wear it all the time, however I only use it because I really like the looks. I would say Omega Knight looks much cooler but I dont have it. This video is very true though, and I agree. Good Quality
Rare? Do u know how many people played AND bought the battle pass during that season?
@@DDDTJ Cant find a single person wearing *MAX* Omega let alone normal Omega, not only that but I always see people saying "omg omega!" when they join my party. idk maybe chapter 2 players lol.
@@DDDTJit was wayyyy harder than you think to get lmao
@@juehjuI got the mask, was so close to getting the lights too. Quick question though, how would you feel about it coming back for players who didn’t unlock all of the styles?
@@spartan-1210 Its a battlepass, nothing should come back for anything, everyone had there chance and if ya missed it oh well. I missed the robot dance in season 3 by like 2 tiers, it haunts me till this day.
My first ever skin was Drift. And is by far my favorite skin. However, that account is on the family PS4 account when I was little. So, now older with my own account after 3 years of not playing Fortnite and account merging not being a thing I can never really play my favorite skin. I see where it's exclusive argument has valid points but to me I always find that players would be more happy and Epic would make a lot more money if old BP skins were purchasable.
Destiny 2 for example has had battlepasses for a decent while now and I have a handful of the first batch of the exclusive ornaments/skins from the first couple of seasons. Recently they did in fact release a bundle that included the ornament/skin set from the third season BP they made. The bundle was kind of poopy for the price but I saw a lot of positive feedback of D2 bringing back old ornaments/skins.
While I don't play destiny 2 myself at this point I think Epic would benefit from bringing back old battle pass skins, if they want to keep renegade and aerial rare thats fine and I think would be the only ones to stay rare.
@@lukenerdy I agree. I mean there’s other rare items. Like the first birthday back bling I feel is decently rare.
@@jacksonfougeron7438 oh for sure, I have it and remember EVERYONE who got it using it but I haven't probably used that in 3 years lmao
Ya i would love for epic to bring back there older battle pass skins even if it comes in a bundle of some sort.
Maybe even bring back old battle passes in general kinda like how Halo infinite does it.
@@Jimboislost I recently spoke on this and had the idea of putting a Battle Pass section of the item shop, just like the faily section, where it would include a couple full price skins, some emotes or a pickaxe. That way, the people who got it through the pass got a WAY better deal, but we can still own the cosmetics if we really want them. Literally everyone wins and Epic gets more money.
as somebody who owns tons of rare cosmetics such as renegade raider and and purple skull, i somewhat agree. stuff like maxed omega you needed to spend hours grinding to get it which invalidates your point, however i agree renegade raider looks like a homeless person
Do u still play fortnite?
@@lersux6444he’s not giving you his account lil bro
@@lersux6444they ain’t giving you their account don’t try bro
@@sordonic9195 i aint need any acc i already got black knight
yeah@@lersux6444
this happens a lot in the art industry as clothing brands are sought out just because the cost of the clothing is expensive and some people just want it because its expensive and not barely look into the art (clothing) such as supreme where it was a really nice brand until the owners of brands stop making stuff and begin making stuff blinded by money
Epic should start not caring about rare skins or battle pass skins no skin should be locked behind a battle pass anymore
very true don't play games just for the skins play for the enjoyment
Another thing about it is when those people stop playing nobody is gonna remember as that one person who had almost every OG skin because they don't matter since it's literally just something in a game that isn't important. Plus they aren't really rare when you are able to possibly just buy someone's account that is selling it, even though they don't allow it some people still get around that. So rare skins really don't matter at all.
You're right except for the few exceptions like full Omega or fully golden Agent Peely which required insane amounts of dedication or tournament specific skins
At this point I would want Epic to just release old battle pass skins, if people want to show their og status just use umbrellas if they care that much.
I think keeping old skins rare is just dumb at this point. It would also mean account selling wouldn't be such a big thing since people could you know spend the money and get the items.
When it comes to rare items I see the fortnite community as much worst because of Skull trooper getting his og style since now kids are like "LEt tHiS SkIN gET A raRe StYle!??!?!?" Like people say this should have an og style when most of them wont even get it.
You made a good point when it comes to people using old skins, a lot of people will use it because of it being rare. Like my most wanted skin is omega and I don't have it, but If I did have it and all of season 4 battle pass stuff I would use it because I enjoy those items and not because their rare, my favorite emote is orange justice since it was the last item I got before that season ended.
Unfortunately Epic will never bring back old battle passes simply because it makes them a lot of money if they just released a skin similar to skins like Omega or black knight.
This current season is the perfect example with them bringing back the old map and all the battle pass skins being different takes on older skins.
@@Jimboislost Oh for sure we won't probably ever see them again. I think the only reason we would is if Epic decide "hey lets make so much money in a few hours" since those would probably be some of the most bought if they did. At least that's what I think. And yes collab skins and etc exists but in terms of fortnite original skins that's what's I think could happen.
Another point of them just being able to randomly bring back battle pass stuff is how rogue agent just randomly came back (which still annoys me since it was my main skin)
BLUD IS MAD NO OG SKINS CRY MORE
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@@pikssy9042 I'm not crying? lmao Its the fact it was a starter and randomly got put into shop when it shouldnt have been and even then people had to buy it for 15, it was years ago and I dont care lol
I joined really really late in C4 S3 and before I would watch my brother play in 2018 and I have completed every battle pass since C4 S3 and I loved most of the skins, not for their rarity, but because they looked really cool.
They are supposed to be cool and to just enjoy using.
Albeit CH4 skins are now definitely not rare, but still.
If I like it, I'll use it.
100% ,this is true. I liked how you boiled it down to, you should just have fun no matter what skin you have. There is no need to brag about the skin if all the matters is having fun playing the game. Nicely done video.
I’d say that the reason a lot of us do value then so much is cause skins can make the game a lot more fun. We’ve all seen the memes of Joker killing goku with a lightsaber and then hitting the Griddy. Especially for collabs it can add a lot to the experience.
I agree with a lot. When you die one day, you can't take those "rare" skins with you. We don't own anything here while we're alive. Life and time is temporary. I like to play fortnite, but I'm not gonna come off to where I feel good flexing and putting people down for the skin they have. Everything has an ending one day. That goes for fortnite as well. So overall, I agree.
I agree on the destiny part as someone who solo flawless'd spire of the watcher after an unknown amount of times. The difference between earning something that takes dedication and skill in contrast to earning something that simply only just takes time and doesn't exactly need a plan is extremely significant and in conclusion, fortnite skins don't matter at all simply because it doesn't affect the playing field at all (unless the skin is glitched but those cases are extremely rare nowadays).
Spire of the watcher is Hard as f, but I love it tho.
The only hard solo flaw dungeon is ghost because of the moths
This is probably one of the most even mannered reasonable sounding videos / takes on skin rarity that I've ever seen on this platform. It's very refreshing and I can relate to 90% of what you say. I like skins only because I like what they look like and I don't really care whether they're still obtainable, or haven't been in the shop for a long time or even have been blacklisted. I'm sure the comment section is going to be riddled with people talking about the skins that required more effort than just completing levels, but at the end of the day, it really just boils down to you played the game, you got the skin, if someone else didn't, so what? I skipped a lot of battle passes just because I simply didn't like the items in it, the ones that I completed were more because I had a lot of free time to fill, but definitely not so a few years down the road I can parade around in front of other people at party Royale to show them what they can't get.
I know you mentioned that people aren't necessarily toxic about skin ownership and other cosmetics and emotes, but definitely there is a large percentage of people that are. I've been in lobby with people all they talk about the entire game is how they have this skin and how the other people in the group are trash because they don't. It's kind of sad.
I've seen people who wear a certain skin for ages that hasn't been in the item shop for a while and then all of a sudden it comes back, and all of a sudden they never wave it again. What changed? Nothing, nothing at all,
I personally wouldn't care if they brought back any battle pins that I have and put them in the item shop like a lot of people would. If I have it, I'll be happy that other people will get an opportunity to enjoy it as well, if I don't, it's probably because I didn't want it in the first place. Cosmetics should be about the wearer, not everybody else. If more people understood thatthey would enjoy the game a lot more and worry a lot less about what they think other people are thinking about them and their locker size/rarity.
Unavailable skins are only really "rare" in the sense that they're desirable because they haven't been available in a long time, they're essentially just a statement of when you've played, and invested money in the game.
A skin can be considered rare because of several different reasons. For example, when it was last available, how it's obtained, or how difficult it is to obtain it. Agent Peely's golden agent style is a good example of a skin that's considered rare because of how difficult it was to obtain. Reaching 300 levels in any season isn't easy.
At the end of the day though, they are all just cosmetics. They only hold as much value as you allow them to.
"reaching 300 levels in any season isn't easy." i wouldn't say any season, since chapter 3 every single kid who knows how to input a creative mode code will be level 1000 sadly
I agree with this.
Tbh I don't mind the current monetization (maybe because I'm just more a part of the newer generation of gamers) but people act like buying into that system is cooler than it actually is. Most of the cosmetics that are considered rare don't even look good (Renegade Raider is a perfect example of this).
Tbh I think fortnite has a bigger skin problem which are “sweaty” skins like for some reason people buy all of these skins that are just the simplest most boring skins ever
Exactly!
A change that Apex Legends made a few years ago that I love is battle pass items aren't exclusive, they can return at any time in the shop. It's more just getting the battle pass gives it all cheaper and earlier
At the end of the day everyone just has to remember a cool skin doesn’t change how quickly you get gunned down
Well said dude. Unfortunately those who need to hear it the most are probably to busy having a tanty, yelling at their parents to get them more V-bucks
If only someone made a video about this 2 years ago. I had so much FOMO. This is my third season of me not giving a damn about missing out its crazy how a game can drive you crazy.
honestly i think this was the exact point Tfue was trying to make all those year backs with the not buying cosmetics thing after his og account got banned. And also because in that era people made so much fun of people who didnt have skins like oh my god.
my life goal is to draw and animate, and at the peak of my craft I want to create a character that people love like I love Toji from Jujutsu Kaisen, Deku from BNHA, Roland from Library of Ruina, just my little life story but my point is, I don't care if my skins matter something for the community, if Im OG or not, as long as they matter to me
Agree
Funny enough the only things i got the show off that i am dedicated to fortnite are my banners, i got the level 100 banner for season 9+10 (and if u remember getting to level 80 was consider hard), and a lot of other save the world banners are that are very very time consuming, i am proud of myself for getting 'em.
This is a better thing to be rare imo
They need to do like a "win 25 games with 5+ kills per game this season to unlock ----" that would be the only way to show a little bit of skill
There are AI's in this game. Still too easy.
The llama backbling is kind of like that.
Whats worse is that they make these battlepass skins never return, so if someone plays later on and loves drift, They cant ever get him.
Thanks for explaining this to me helps alot from making purchases from now on.
Agreed. Even though I really don't like playing the same skin as everyone else. I really would like for Fortnite to bring back some of the skins that were missed if we didn't play earlier seasons. Update em, merge em (Omegarok) or something; so newer players can get some of these characters.
How dare you. I would choose fortnite over ending world hunger. I was playing fortnite as I was in my mothers womb. HOW DARE YOU!
Agreed
Man, I never got the Spiderman Skin cuz I wasn’t playing at the moment, and that’s literally the only skin I trully care for
Great video man, I definitely agree with the points you make. The background music is a bit loud/distracting btw ❤
I agree with you that outfits don’t really mean anything other then them being rare, but the reason they have so much value is due to the same reason pawn shops and auctions are still in business. Yes they’re meaningless in an objective way of looking at it. So why do people value them? Simple because it means something to them, something you have over others gives people the delusion that they have something the average person doesn’t have. It sounds stupid but we as a community have decided long ago that the rarer something is the more value it has.
1:57, I agree a bit, but the black night was a skin that was actually hard to unlock because a lot of people sucked. John wick in season 3 I guess was easier to get because more challenges.
But rarity makes something cool, how cool is it to see a laferrari? It’s rare so it’s cool, get me? 😂
And it’s funny to say you have a skin that’s older than some fortnite kids 😂
@@magical5181Thats funny but lets be fr,most fortnite kids are a little over 5💀
@@Draco_stx hahaha true
So true, weekly quests weren't around till season 3
While few people did that early in the game everyone always seem to forget you've always been able to buy tiers in the battle pass so while plenty of people did "work for it" it does detract from the overall argument about "earning it" since you could have always just bought your way to tier 70 - 100.
There are exclusive skins that required to make very expensive purchases to obtain and also items in save the world that you can only obtain by playing save the world. There are also a couple of items that require you to win professional tournaments
My favorite pick ever from fortnite was from the first ever "refer a friend" event before they even had a name for it. I had no idea it actually was rare the entire time I used it because it was PC only, and incredibly difficult at the time because both you and your friend had to do the same stage before moving on.
But it don’t change ur aim bruh lol
Thats what hes talking about its just cosmetics
@@filipslapoty1992 wow I didn’t know thank for the heads up “genius” he has been playing that long and his aim still that bad is all I’m saying I started in Chapter 1 Season 7 0% aim assist and my aim is better
quite literally nobody cares how good you are bro@@DriFt_seabass439
His aim is good..?
The thing is that nobody cares about your aim bud
What’s funny is that there are way harder to get cosmetics like fully corrupted scratch(which I own) + you could say literally every skin is “rare” because they are not able to be bought again after the battle pass ends
corrupted scratch was only hard because that season was so boring.
@@maxypad3379 u needed 300 levels for full cs
that skin is not rare you need to reach lvl 110 thats easy af and you could just buy to tier 100 and play 2 rounds every fortnite skin is easy to get this game has no hard to achieve skins
@@ahhaintnowaydudeno? I got to like level 200 it still had a little bit of the hand and foot to complete
@@ahhaintnowaydude nope,lvl 300.
In Risk of Rain 2 you get character styles by completing the game in the highest difficulty with that particular character, every character has an alternative style to unlock when you complete the game in that manner
I honestly think a better description of what a "rare" skin is is that it's a cosmetic that hasn't came back for a long period of time and it has only been obtainable few times and not a lot of people have it, not necessarily oldest Battle Pass.
Also the idea that because shop skins are eventually going to come back one day doesn't necessarily mean that the skins aren't rare, they still hold the same weight rarity wise as any other skin in the game.
When you shared your anecdotal on Destiny and how you could get emblems, those are a little different when comparing it to skins but Fortnite has those same things skins wise too. A skin like Indigo Kuno is a Playstation cup reward that was only obtainable for one tournament that you had to place about top 10% in, that is something you can definitely flex because it is the 2nd rarest skin in the game. There are also banners in Fortnite too which get drastically overlooked but hold way more rarity than skins, for example there were French streamer bundles (spray, emoticon, and banner) that had a limited supply of 1000 unless you played their map and got it that way but very few people did that. There were 4 of them as well, so just imagine how hard it would be to obtain all 4 within the small time frame that they were active (3 months but around 5k people were trying to get them all at the same time, also accounting for bots and hoarders.)
But if you're looking to flex achievements in Fortnite, just play Save the World. It's a little bit boring, and the achievements take FOREVER to do, but once you finish you'll have a banner you can flex on people.
i missed the spiderman tier 100 skin, basically ter 25 onwards from chapter 3 season 2 and didn't even bought the chapter 3 season 4 battle pass. Man, this battle passes hunt me because I wanted the spiderman and gwen skin so bad
Unfortunate. Your only options now are the Miles and Tom ones i believe. I'm surprised they never added any other spiderman skins from the movie. Like the Noir one
@@Jimboislostmaybe they’ll add them when BTSV comes around
@@Jimboislostand i find that trash. I have both skins but epic needs to re-release them. This fomo crap is extremely preditory and anti consumer.
I wish more people would realize this. 👍
Saves u stress, time and money
there are a few skins which were only obtainable by competing in and placing in a specific cup, the one that comes to mind is the epicvapple cup that skin is never going to be in the item shop
another is the ps5 cup exclusive
Started playing in C3S3, got bummed out by missing some cool skins but the more I play the more I realize that I'd realistically not use any of them and that I'm switching outfits all the time
OG skins have no meaning, FOMO is bullshit and I'm here to enjoy the game
Really can’t quite grasp your point here, sure, they weren’t that hard to get in most cases, but they are still rare, they are never coming back and haven’t for 5+ years.
Also, I’m glad I found someone else who actually liked chapter 2’s map 😂
I feel like Omega is the only tier 100 who really does matter because the other ones were just getting xp or getting to outlast opponents a certain number of times, don't get me wrong, it did require you to get xp to get his styles and lights but for him, it took a lot of playing to earn his styles while for other tier 100s, you just had to get xp and even if you didn't complete the skin during that season, you could complete it next season anyway (which btw, was a great feature). But that's just my take on this problem.
Frrr it’s my favorite skin because I actually had to earn it unlike every other skin
And max singularity imo
I got his full armor but never managed to get his lights. I would say getting his helmet was a miracle, I started on Week 4 or 5 of season 4 and it was a massive grind to reach level 100 back then, I think the only reason I even got to his helmet at level 55 or something was because I played a LOT with people who had the 125% XP boost... sure, I wish I had the lights but y'know. it was basically impossible for me.
I sort of agree however,
I’d say that there is at least 1 more skin that could be considered hard to get from an early battlepass: ragnarok, for context the Xp needed for omega’s maxed out lights was around 532000 XP to get to it’s final state, however with ragnarok you would need 500000 XP for it’s final stage with his glowing skull, this makes me think that even if it was easier to get ragnarok it would still show a lot of effort being put in to accuire the final level of the skin just like omega did
The unlocking styles after season end was limited to chapter 1 season 7 I think
On older seasons raising tier was harder then today because level and tiers weren't the same
Reminds me of: "i'm so unique" - Gray/Dark/White Superhero skin wearers with Star Wand
This definitely makes sense but i will still unlock every battlepass to atleast 100 and like some og skins like omega required an insane amount of exp where i got lv80 last day of the season
What is blud talking about 💀
I own Ghoul trooper which a skin that tecnically is "old" from fortnite's first halloween but I never played on that time so I dont own the "OG" variant, and the skin still comes back on halloween
And I find it stupid that they gatekeep skins just because u were late on playing and that's why I hate battlepasses in every game I play, I still buy them because I know ill never get the skin if I don't but I just wanna buy a cosmetic I like and call it a day, and if they keep going the battlepass route just do it like Halo: Infinite and allow for people to just buy it even after it goes away
why should you be able to buy it even after it goes away takes away all the grind and point of a battle pass
@@pedri5541 I mean Halo Infinite does it perfectly by allowing you to buy them whenever you want and you can activate the certain battlepass you wanna level up to progress it and no one has complained about it, why other games can't?
and the only reason battlepasses go away and never return is because of FOMO and player retention the companies do to maintain the games relevant
Tbh Drift was my first ever Skin in Fortnite in general and he is my favorite Skin ever since, I also appreciate all the Spin-Off Skins of him that came out like Summer Drift or Driftwalker, but I don't enjoy to brag with it, I just genuinely love Drift's design.
While I agree with the message, you have to agree that missing the Peter from fortnite skin is a cardinal sin
Thank you that's exactly what i was thinking i just play the game just for fun.
What you and other 300 people thought, but the rest of the world/ fornite community thinks different
@@tripx3033 everyone have different options about something I said my different option
One of my favorite cosmetics in a game is an orange and black trophy I got for being MVP in a Paintball game long ago..
It's completely unobtainable now, and it really didn't take much skill to get, but it still holds a lot of value in my heart.. I even extracted the model and put it on one of my VRChat avatars..
It is not an item people will notice as "rare" or really notice at all, but it is one that matters to me
I completely agree ngl, although I do personally prefer the older skins to the newer ones.
I really wish there’s a feature where the item shop has every single non battlepass skin
As a broke guy with only 100 skins despite having the account since season 4, i agree
I wasn’t broke at all i just didn’t bother to buy the skins lmao,started my account late season 3 btw
I have less and I started in CH3S3.
People just feel the NEED to own skins otherwise they'll die IRL.
@@DDDTJ no on talked about you
@@LevonMSF ok?I Iiterally only stated that I wasn’t broke,read the goddamn sentence before u start sayin random bullshit
@@DDDTJ sound like you’re compensating for something
I agree, 99.9% of skins are not special. The Indigo Kuno would be an exception since it was completely merit based. Only several thousand have her from the tournament played. Also, anyone who has put a lot of money into the game is not going to get it back.
Fncs pickaxe is the only cosmetic to be bragging about blue indigo whatever it’s just another reskin
@@Hannah-y5q that less than 0.0000000000001 percent of players have.
I wish they would do more of these tournament skins
@@Hannah-y5qit shows you are good at the game. The skin isn’t special itself.
@@amazoring8269 yeah that still doesn’t answer my question. You had to compete for other fncs items like indigo but they came back and nobody cared if u got a free fncs item that’s gonna come to the shop in the future. So people only care about the skin not how good you are. But the skin itself isn’t all that since all you are getting is a skin and gain nothing out of it only to show off unlike the fncs pickaxe. Actually nvm I sound slow rn actually I forgot you could sell the skin 💀💀🤣
when i got stray i wore it often because it looks very similar to drift, which i like and missed out on. my friend owned drift and would wear it whenever i wore stray just to try and put himself above me. he did not like drift and he was always complaining about it being bulky though he insisted that drift was better than stray (less bulky version of drift) just because it was rare and old.
I own Takara, a skin that hasn't appeared in the shop for close to 900 days and i don't think nothing special of it, i use it sometimes like any other skin because i like it's style but i will be happy if it appears in the shop again so that more people can appreciate it.
its not about the skin, its about sending the message
Ok Heath
imo it isn't about being rare. back in season 3 it was if they have a high tier or old skin, you know they've been playing for a while so you know they are probably going to demolish you. unless you've been playing for a while to but you def wont think they arnt good if they been playing for that long also some people like to sell their accounts which then it does matter cause rare always equals expensive (even tho its against the rules)
we had to go through hell and back to get full armor omega 🤣🤣 really good video though i 100% agree with you.
3:14 i play destiny 2 aswell haha and the first thing i thought of when u said about live service games was exactly that
I agree with you.
Personally, for me I buy and use skins because I like them. How others perceive skins, mine or others, is none of my concern.
Yes. I like playing as Princess Lexa, but I didn't get crew because I wanted to hold that over someone or because I'm a sweat. I just liked her vibe.
People act like BP and Crew skins are some kind of status symbol, when they really aren't. It's dumb. I don't care. No one cares.
The issue is that people think there's value in things where there truly isn't. Its a coping mechanism to justify the time and money they spent, nothing more.
I agree with most of your comment, however I disagree with the there isn't value to a skin part. I've scrolled past many looking for group posts on Xbox were someone would buy your account just for having a couple of rare skins or someone offering to sell their account for a lot of money.
People are crazy for those rare skins, I once saw a post offering $250 just for a Black Knight skin, maybe more. Now I don't browse the LFGP anymore, but I'm fairly certain people like that still exist. People be crazy
In my opinion most battle pass skins aren't even rare, if you think about it yeah they never return but the battle pass system is so popular and so many people buy the battle passes, the only battle pass I consider kinda rare is chapter 1 season 2.
I feel like some collab skins will always have their copium moment until they release a new variant of the skin like the new iron man zero bundle, I personally would love a Superman comic skin with cel shade like the animated movies/show
“Don’t play the game you want to, play the game my way which is better because I said so.”
I would say the exception is Exclusive skins, skins like Galaxy, Ikonik, Double Helix, Dark Vertex and many others, cosmetics which you have to purchase an expensive physical item to redeem (typically would have been a console or phone but there were some other more niche cases).
Because u bought a hole console for them specifically?
Well no still a sht ton of people own them
They should offer those with new gen consoles tbh
@@justme-oq9qm Well tbh the offer other things with new gen consoles....like on ps5 they give u some new styles for game series skins like the armored style for kratos skin.....which is only for ps5 users
@@care1essguy they just started to give those on ps4 aswell
In my opinion black knight shows how much you played the game he was hard to get i managed to unlock on last day of season 2
@@simonshura9144 yeah ik and if people did they are sad fucks 🤣🤣
yea there was no weekly challenges until season 3 so that made it really hard to level up i got black knight a couple of days before the season ended
Wasn't that hard you could've bought tiers
This is a greta video. Completely changed the way I view skins now. I am still going to force my cousin to remember his Epic password as he has the OG John Wick skin lmao
Paradigm, only out for like a week and it was specifically stated that it'll never be released again, it was released season X though so depends, plus its a good looking skin
My Fav. Skin is my Rare OG Purple Skulltrooper! It was my 2nd Skin i've purchased back then. Most of the time i wear this Skin because it looks cool and it's my Favorite! Of course i also wearing it because of the "OG Only" Purple Skulltrooper Design option that Epic released to honor the players who purchased it back in 2017. (Fortnite Season 1) BUT that doesn't mean i only wear this skin, i also wear other skins i like and aren't rare.
This is how people should look at it. Yeah you are going to wear this skin makes sense but if you aren't just running that one skin 24/7 I think is a better overall (if what I said makes any sense lmao)
My favorite skin is sparkle specialist it's my main skin I love it so much idc that it's rare I love the old default design to it and everything
i feel like this is such a drawn out version of, "i dont see value in the thing i bought and i have no reason why"
Atleast he can stress over other things in life ikr 😂
omg the thing about chapter 2 is so true. chapter 1 is wayy too bare bones while chapter 2 unifies the POIs we love with new and interesting gameplay
aw bro rare item shop skins hurt so badly. 😭 basically me and my bro were playing and he pulls out the black widow skin, which hadn't came out since season 8, and im like "wow rare skin!" then, no joke, the next day it comes into the item shop. my friend pretended like he didnt care but i could tell he was dying inside cause of that.
I've never thought of the rarity status flex as a form of influenced FOMO. For me it was always about the personal value of the items that I bought, aka I just bought my favorites.
it's nice to know these days that i end up enjoying fortnite's seasons so much that I reach close to tier 100 without even wanting to purchase it, that is a great feeling.
The only pass i wish i could have acquired before its season's end was chapter 2 season 3. the live event was one of the greatest lore wise, the map change where the storm border became an ocean for a few days, and tropical/Water themed items in general are always a lot of fun. i agree so much with battle passes being a time consuming effort though, it's a shame that these companies don't introduce more consumer friendly methods of allowing players to earn cosmetics after their event time frame has ended.
also Fortnite's superhero skins are atrocious (the ones where it's just a full body skintight suit), if those are your favorites then you don't have good tastes.
Yeah I’ve never understood the hype behind the superhero skins, also the hype behind renegade raider because it’s not that good of a skin only because it hasn’t been in the item shop for years
I've thought about this for awhile and I think more than anything the majority of players just want a unique skin. If you care about what your character looks like, you're gonna spend some time in the character creator making it look as cool as possible, but when there isn't an option to create your own characters, the only way to achieve this is by having a rare skin. The less people wearing the same skin, the more it feels like *your* skin. This weird "my skin is better" attitude doesn't exist if you can customize your character in any way you want. Imagine how much better you could express yourself if you could mix and match the head, torso, legs, etc of the skins you already own.
In save the world you can earn banners though doing certain challenges like in frostnite you play to a certain round with a modifer and at the end you get a banner to show you did that. Kinda like your destiny example. While granted it isn’t a skin and most of the player base won’t know what it is, it’s a cool way to show off to the few that actually know what it is. Also in save the world you can earn pickaxes though upgrading your pickaxes. You only unlock those pickaxes though play time. Even though these aren’t skins they are a cool cosmetic to show off.
TL;DR I agree and I don't think things like this should effect people's enjoyment of a game since it mostly boils down to bragging rights, even though there are some really nice "rare" skins out there.
I've been playing Fortnite since... roughly around the Infinity War event. I 100% agree with what you just said, basically every "rare" skin is gotten either thanks to luck by getting it in the item shop on time or it's thanks to you getting the battle pass and playing for a certain amount of time. I've gotten a few rare skins and styles over the years, be it battle pass skins like Drift, Fortnite Crew skins like Zero War Wolverine and a few item shop skins like Travis Scott and World Cup Fishstick (and Demogorgon, up until recently). Whilst yes, there are rare skins I like and there are rare skins and emotes that I missed out on (my only regrets in fortnite are missing out on Orange Justice and Peely), almost every Fortnite cosmetic is... cosmetic, almost none of the emotes and skins actually have an effect on how you play, and the ones that do are quickly fixed (such as the Toy Soldier skin). Whilst yes, there have been a lot of BP exclusive skins that many people would desire (especially collaboration skins like Darth Vader, Superman and Optimus Prime), you shouldn't let it get to you because, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter. At best, you're wearing a skin because you really like it, at worst you're wearing a skin because of bragging rights.
And obviously, this isn't to say rare skins are only worn purely for bragging rights. My main skin is the Season 5 secret skin, the Enforcer, there are people who play fortnite who wear skins because they like the skin. Heck, when World Cup Fishstick was in the shop, I didn't really think of it as me getting the skin because of the new Fishstick style, I got it because I wanted Fishstick and the new style was the cherry on top (although I do like to run with the World cup style, since it's a nice style you don't see too frequently in lobbies due to it's rarity). Many people like certain cosmetics, simply because they're nice and wear them not to brag about how old of a player they are, but rather because they really like the skin they're using. Of course, many people unfortunately missed out on some really nice skins and wish they had them, and that's fine. As stated prior, my biggest regret was not getting peely due to how much of a fun skin he is, but again it shouldn't effect your enjoyment of the game, as again, at worst owning a rare skin is bragging rights. Play the game not because you didn't get a rare skin, play it to have fun, be it in a casual or competitive sense. Almost all "rare" items in Fortnite do not have a major effect in how you play and whilst there are some really fun skins, not owning them shouldn't dampen your enjoyment of the game.
its not about showing a resume about your skill and age on the game because you own an old battlepass game, its that if something is older and its slowly becoming something that isn't seen as much as time progresses then it automatically can be considered rare (example being renegade raider, black knight, omega with everything unlocked, elite agent etc) even though it cant be traded or sold so it has no real value therefore its pretty harmless
it seems to me that there isn't an actual issue with the logic behind it, but that you just don't care and decided to explain why other people shouldn't.
@@Jallu555 just seems to me that you dont like or understand the significance of rarity
@@Jallu555
It sounds like you have a problem with fortnite's profit model not rarity or exclusivity
@@Jallu555 you just dont like exclusivity or rarity as a concept
@@Jallu555 fomo has literally no sense in your argument
@@Jallu555 am I arguing with a 12 year old? because i never said that a skin that needed 1000 skins and 20 kills to obtain wasn't rare.
You have really good points, but missing out on omega lights when you're only a couple thousand xp away kinda hurts. Because I actually like the omega lights and would've equipped them even if they weren't rare. eh you live you learn.
After viewing this video I agree. I used to have the mindset of "Needing a rare skin". Letme date this back to 2017, I have been playing Fortnite since season 1 of 2017. I didnt ever buy skins from all those time periods as I thought they were terrible, while I do regret not buying a couple skins I enjoy. I was at peace, until I started to feel phamo. So I had a bought an account with the seasons I missed on it dating from the season 2 battles pass to season 7. It got tooken away from me, but im glad it did. It was a big wake up call for me as in "Hey, these skins are just cosmetics that can easily be tooken." So I dropped that phase pretty quickly. Im glad that someone was actually able to say this though in a better way I could. Skins, cosmetics. They mean nothing, if you actually love a skin then you love it. Otherwise there is no point in it.
Bro the Omega and the grove jam would make me happy
Battlepass skins do not come back. Furthermore its just a collector type of thing and having something new players or ppl who missed it never got. Thats all it is.. people like to have rich accounts
Another skin that actually took a bit of effort was Black Knight. You had to be consistent or really good. I was the former because I abused the daily bp tier system through dailies. One of my favorite skins and I just like the knight skins. Tho also, I like a lot of the older skins just because they have nolstalgia and a unique vibe to them. Like space jonesy
Getting golden agents was a pain in the ass, even the ghost/shadow quests were hard
Man, great video! Informative and non toxic approach to this topic