For Fortnite: Battle Royale (PC, PS4, Xbox One & iOS) there are two special skins that can only be obtained through a Twitch Prime membership. A black market has developed on eBay, where large quantities of such skins are being sold for real money. Somehow, real money is made out of nothing in the jungle of free subscriptions.
Anyone who has a Twitch Prime account can link it to various online games and unlock special goodies like skins. Fortnite: Battle Royale is one of those games. Twitch Prime customers can get two exclusive skins and a new glider.
Without a Prime account, there are no skins, so the skin black market on eBay is thriving.
Premium skins for about 3 euros
On eBay, some sellers are currently selling large quantities of Twitch Prime skins for Fortnite: Battle Royale. The prices are around 3 euros. Some sellers have already sold hundreds of skins and even received good ratings from customers.
Since the skins are not available as keys, but are unlocked by linking a Twitch account with Fortnite, the sellers are not selling the skins themselves. Rather, for their money, one acquires temporary access to a Twitch Prime account that has not yet been linked.
This way, buyers can presumably connect and permanently unlock their skins.
Where do all the Twitch Prime accounts come from?
It is unclear where all the Twitch Prime accounts come from.
- They may be provided by users who do not play Fortnite.
- There may also be bots and hacks at play, which would be stolen accounts.
- Or it could be that some simply create mass fake accounts.
The website Kotaku conducted an investigation and found that it seems relatively easy to create fake Twitch Prime accounts temporarily and unlock skins with them. This works through the backdoor with Amazon Prime.
But regardless of how it works, sharing accounts is in any case prohibited and can lead to bans on Twitch.
Fortnite’s deal with Twitch Prime also boosts streamers
Twitch states that they are seeing a significant increase in players who are using Twitch Prime for the first time, receiving free loot and donating their free channel subscription to a streamer.
One of the biggest beneficiaries of this whole action is likely the streamer Ninja. His income from Twitch subscriptions has exploded. Ninja earns 500,000 US dollars a month.
How much the people earning from the Epic Twitch deal that sells bulk skins on eBay is unknown.
Here you can find all skins and outfits in Fortnite: Battle Royale
