Fortnite: Battle Royale recently offered some skins themed around “Fish” in the shop. Among them was a design called “Slippery.” However, it was supposed to have features that it ultimately did not include.
Which skin is it about? On 24.05.2019, the Fortnite shop was all about fish. Not only did the extremely silly skin “Fishstick” return, this time with another version (a VR Cyber Fish). There were also three “fishy” designs. These are skins for items that let you customize your weapons and vehicles.
There were three of them: a scale pattern, a fish head pattern, and another scale design, but according to the description, it had animation. Therefore, it costs also 500 (5 Euros) instead of 300 (3 Euros) V-Bucks.
Fish design makes customers angry
What was the problem with the skin? For the 2 extra Euros, many customers of the “Slippery Skin Design” were looking forward to processing their opponents into fish food with cool animated fish scales on their weapons.
But no matter how you turned it, the design only showed the same scales and no animation or reaction. It was actually just a different color version of the scale design for 300 V-Bucks.
This is how Epic reacts: There were some complaints about this. After all, people only bought the more expensive product because they wanted the animations. On Reddit, some dissatisfied customers shared their opinions.
Epic shortly responded via Twitter and admitted that they made a mistake. The design would not be animated. Therefore, they would reduce the price from 500 to 300. Everyone who purchased the item will receive a refund of the 200 V-Bucks difference.
This is what fans say: Some players think it’s okay that the design is now cheaper. But others are very confused as to why all the other non-animated designs for 500 V-Bucks still cost so much.
- “Golden Scales also cost 500 V-Bucks and was not animated, why don’t you change that to 300 V-Bucks too?”
Others fans are disappointed because they specifically wanted the animated design. They do not want another skin that does nothing, not even for 300 V-Bucks:
- “Can I get a full refund? The main reason for me was to have an animated skin. I don’t want another non-animated one.”
While some fans still hope that Epic will add the animation later, others mock that the buyer of the skin should have checked first whether the feature really works as advertised before spending money. So he is to blame for now having a useless fish design.
Fortunately, there is still the regular exchange action:
