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Fortnite's Season 5 battle pass is out today, and for those players that like to play both Fortnite and dress-up, that means it's time to pay the piper. For those that don't know, the battle pass is a one-time purchase you can make that allows you access to a whole treasure trove of skins, gliders, pickaxes, emotes and more. You don't get them automatically, however: you have to level up and unlock them through play. It's a phenomenal value for what you get, so long as we are assigning a concept of value to cosmetic digital goods. Which we are! The real question, however, is: should you buy it? Does it make the game better enough to spend the requisite $10? Let's think about this question.
So we'll ask ourselves a few questions. First is: do you have $10? Or, in another way, what is $10 worth to you? If $10 is a lot of money to you, this is a bigger decision than it might be if $10 is what you spend on lunch every day. Fortnite is, of course, a free-to-play game, so you shouldn't really feel like the $10 is something you need in order to enjoy Fortnite: Battle Royale.
Let's think for a second about what you get if you don't buy the battle pass. You get the basic game of Fortnite: Battle Royale, for starters, and it's the exact same game a paying player gets. As far as Season 5 is concerned, that means that you get all the same map changes, all the same new weapons, vehicles, limited time modes, in-game events and more. The most epic moment of Season 4 was arguably the one-time-only rocket launch, and everyone in the game could watch that no matter whether they paid or not.
Fortnite's Season 5 battle pass is out today, and for those players that like to play both Fortnite and dress-up, that means it's time to pay the piper. For those that don't know, the battle pass is a one-time purchase you can make that allows you access to a whole treasure trove of skins, gliders, pickaxes, emotes and more. You don't get them automatically, however: you have to level up and unlock them through play. It's a phenomenal value for what you get, so long as we are assigning a concept of value to cosmetic digital goods. Which we are! The real question, however, is: should you buy it? Does it make the game better enough to spend the requisite $10? Let's think about this question.
So we'll ask ourselves a few questions. First is: do you have $10? Or, in another way, what is $10 worth to you? If $10 is a lot of money to you, this is a bigger decision than it might be if $10 is what you spend on lunch every day. Fortnite is, of course, a free-to-play game, so you shouldn't really feel like the $10 is something you need in order to enjoy Fortnite: Battle Royale.
Let's think for a second about what you get if you don't buy the battle pass. You get the basic game of Fortnite: Battle Royale, for starters, and it's the exact same game a paying player gets. As far as Season 5 is concerned, that means that you get all the same map changes, all the same new weapons, vehicles, limited time modes, in-game events and more. The most epic moment of Season 4 was arguably the one-time-only rocket launch, and everyone in the game could watch that no matter whether they paid or not.
