Fortnite’s New Peak Skin Costs Twice As Much As The Indie Game

Over the weekend, Epic added skins to Fortnite based on the hit indie co-op climbing game Peak. If you want to use one of these skins in the popular battle royale, you’ll need to pay more than twice what it costs to buy an actual copy of Peak on Steam. Ouch.

On March 21, Epic partnered up with Peak developer Aggro Crab to add a series of Peak-themed cosmetic items to Fortnite’s in-game shop. The main focus is a customizable scout skin based on the playable and adorable characters from Peak. To buy the basic Peak Scout skin in Fortnite, which comes with a few customizable options and a backpack, you’ll need to plop down 2,000 V-Bucks. 2,400 V-Bucks costs you $23 so let’s say 2,000 is in the neighborhood of $20. Meanwhile, a single copy of Peak will set you back $8.

https://twitter.com/Fortnite/status/2035510619114442816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

As pointed out by Twitter user cuzl2 (and many others online), if we do some basic math, that means this one Peak-themed skin and backpack costs more than twice the normal price of the indie game they came from.

But wait, it gets worse. Peak right now is on sale as part of Steam’s big Spring Sale event. So right now, Peak only costs $5. That means you could buy four copies of the online co-op climbing game on Steam for the price of a single skin in Fortnite. That doesn’t seem right! Yet here we are.  I just hope the devs at Aggro Crab get a decent cut of the sales.

As pointed out by cuzl2 in the viral post I linked above, before Epic’s recent increase to the cost of V-Bucks, the Peak skin would have cost around $18. For those keeping track at home, that’s still more than Peak by quite a bit. But you must understand, Epic has bills to pay and needs the extra cash, okay? Have some sympathy for the company behind one of the most widely used video game engines on the planet and the creator of one of the most successful live-service games of the last decade.