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Re:Fortnite is free, but kids are getting bullied into spend... by gota on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @06:21AM (#19908229)
Not to mention that the game 'drops' several cosmetic items and rewards them for 'quests' in-game, so the average person has about a 0% chance of distinguishing between paying and non-paying players

I'm not sure but maybe kids who play it a lot can distinguish a dollar-bought flying monkey from a game-drop weasel with a patch eye (I don't mean to demean the game, it's just very outlandish looking in regards to these cosmetics). And that leads to bullying based on sort or rarity of the item, perhaps? But then I think most would agree the problem is not _caused_ as much as _evidenced_ by the game economics

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Re:Fortnite is free, but kids are getting bullied into spend... by crazypyro on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:38PM (#19913649)
I don't play fortnite, but having been involved in other games with cosmetics, some of them quite expensive, most of the players would be able to easily distinguish the rare, expensive cosmetics.
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