OpTic Gaming's CouRage on Why Epic Games Brought Back the Red Knight Skin
By Nicholas Barth ·
The return of the highly popular Red Knight skin into the Fortnite daily item shop recently brought a mixture of excitement and disappointment into the community.
A major factor in the rise of success that Epic Games has seen with Fortnite Battle Royale is the vast amount of unique and entertaining cosmetic items that the developer has created for players to be able to customize their Fortnite experience with.
However, newly released skins and other cosmetic items are only made available in Fortnite for a limited time or never to be seen again in the case of Battle Pass items when their specific season is over.
This limited and random availability of cosmetic items in Fortnite has led to many skins being deemed as extremely rare as they were only available for a short time and have never been put back into the game for purchase by Epic Games again. This is especially true for skins that were created in the earlier seasons of Fortnite where the battle royale title was still making a name for itself and had not yet become the video game industry powerhouse it currently is.
This is why the Fortnite community was pleasantly shocked and surprised to see that Epic Games had made the infamous Red Knight skin from the earlier days of Fortnite available for purchase once more in the daily item shop. Unfortunately, not all of the community was pleased with the decision by Epic Games to re-release the Red Knight skin, as it would lessen the rarity and significance of the skin for long time players as now many of the game's newer players will have purchased it.
OpTic Gaming content creator Jack "CouRage" Dunlop gave his thoughts on the matter and explained that he believes that the community could be expecting to see the rarer skins from the old days of Fortnite make a return in order to discourage the selling and buying of Epic Games accounts to acquire skins, which is against the end-user license agreement of Epic Games.
Red Knight returning means that I truly think it is only a matter of time before every “rare skin” returns to the shop.
— OpTic CouRage (@CouRageJD) July 4, 2018
It follows how Epic Games wants Fortnite to be inclusive. Gives the new players a chance to have legendary items. Also, removes the account selling scams.
The rarity of skins like the Red Knight, Skull Trooper, Power Chord and many other skins has led to many individuals selling and purchasing accounts that were able to acquire these rare skins and promoting the transactions on social media.
Epic Games is not fond of this practice by players and clearly demonstrated it is willing to enforce the prohibition of these practices when it banned popular professional Fortnite player Turner "Tfue" Tenney of FaZe Clan for purchasing accounts.
Giving the very large section of newer players a chance to add rarer skins that they had no chance of getting to their collection could help to eliminate the purchasing and selling of accounts, but there will be many older players who will not be pleased with Epic Games lessening the rarity of skins they have collected through their dedication to Fortnite from its early days.
(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)