Epic Games has announced a price hike for Fortnite in-game currency V-bucks that will help them “pay the bills”.

Epic Games has announced a price hike for
Fortnite in-game currency V-bucks that will help them “pay the bills”.,In a
blog post, Epic Games explained that “the cost of running
Fortnite has gone up a lot” so the company is “raising prices to help pay the bills.”,As it stands, you can buy 1000 V-bucks for £6.99, which can be used to buy cosmetics, items, emotes and access to the battle pass in the free-to-play online multiplayer game. However from March 19, players will only get 800 V-bucks for £6.99.,Following the update, the cost of the battle pass will drop to 800 V-bucks but the 500 bonus V-bucks for completing it has been scrapped. The price of the music and Lego passes have also been reduced. However gamers aren’t impressed with the changes.,“It’s enshittification in practice. Start with something good, get people hooked, then overtime make it worse and worse and worse,”
wrote one fan on Reddit. “Epic is the only company capable of never ruining the core gameplay of a game, but making everything around it hell to the point you never want to play the game again,”
added another. ,“There’s just something dystopian and disgusting about them saying ‘costs of running the game has gone up and we’re raising prices to help pay the bills’ by a multi-billion company that makes insane profits. If you want to nickel and dime your playerbase, at least don’t play victim,”
said a third.,Last month Epic Games announced that PC players had spent more than $1.1billion on its Epic Games Store in 2025 and industry experts
believe the company earned more than $6.1billion in gross revenue last year. However, general manager Steve Allison recently told
Polygon that Epic Games Store was only “marginally profitable” with the company needing to pay developers of third-party games and those given away as part of its free game program. ,Recently, a number of big stars have followed in
Chappell Roan’s footsteps and asked Epic Games for their own in-game
Fortnite skin. Both
Winter Olympics champion Alysa Liu and
Madison Beer have publicly demanded
they be added to the game.,In other news, 
Wordle creator Josh Wardle has
unveiled his new puzzle game Parseword, which looks to make cryptic crosswords “more accessible”.