A skin has appeared in the item shop of Fortnite: Battle Royale, which is currently causing discussions among fans. What is special about the Powerchord skin and why does the rocker divide a community?
New, old skin in the item shop of Fortnite: The Powerchord skin is a guitar-wielding lady with pink hair. She is back in the Fortnite shop. The skin is of legendary rarity and accordingly expensive: 2,000 V-Bucks or equivalent to 20 euros must players pay for the virtual ramp diva.
The appearance of the skin causes irritation: So far, so normal, one might think. In fact, the appearance of the skin does not bring cheers everywhere. Because the rocker is extremely rare and is available in the shop for the second time only.
The rocker made her debut back in March 2018 and hasn’t been seen since. There have been two contradicting movements in recent months:
- For months, some Fortnite fans have been demanding that Epic bring the Powerchord skin back. Under every official tweet from Epic, one reads these demands.
- Many players had derived from the rarity of the skin that this would never be available again.
As it turns out, those who called “Bring back Powerchord” have won.
Those who bought it back then fear for the exclusivity: Players who acquired the Powerchord skin in March could at least boast for 6 months of having the skin “exclusively”. At least until now.
Since then, the player numbers of Fortnite have exploded further, so correspondingly more players will now want to grab and acquire the Powerchord skin.
Much to the chagrin of the original buyers.
Is Powerchord just the beginning? Players think: If the Powerchord skin is already available again, what does that mean for the arguably most sought-after skin of all – the Skull Trooper?
Powerchord-Skin shows: Nothing is exclusive or unique
Is the Skull Trooper also coming back now? Most likely. The Skull Trooper was only available during the Halloween event in October and November 2017. Many players hesitated to buy at that time, as the groundbreaking and especially lasting success of Fortnite: Battle Royale was not foreseeable.
Those who bought it back then now fear a flood of skeleton warriors, which would massively devalue the skin according to last year’s buyers. Is this fear justified? Of course not.
All skins in the shop can return: Only skins that are earned through purchasable Battle Passes and skins offered in corresponding starter packs will likely remain exclusive.
Also, the Twitch Prime skins distributed in cooperation with Twitch will probably never be available for individual purchase; all others will be.
If you acquire a skin from the item shop of Fortnite: Battle Royale, you must reckon that Epic will offer it for purchase again at a later date, whether players like it or not.
What do you think about this discussion? Can you understand the frustration of those who bought some rare skins and hoped they would remain exclusive?
