On that note, let’s put an end to senseless bullying – online or offline and hope for a more wholesome gaming community across all genres. Sure, they’ll probably grow out of it when they grow up, but no kid should have to be called trash just because they don’t have an intangible virtual item that actually costs real money. Many positive gaming communities exist now to help each other thrive in a game.īut unfortunately, monetization systems like the kind in Fortnite can breed a toxic pool of snarky children – and that’s bad. Wouldnt be an issue if people treated defaults as general players. Remember back when gamers were only judged based on skill – at least skill can be sharpened with practice. Fake defaults are those with other skins and battle pass who play as default to lure people into a false sense of security. Bullying is of course, not something to joke about. The study interviewed children who’ve told them that being a “default” gets you bullied and be branded as “poor” or “trash” – children can be awful sometimes. Interestingly, gamers were also more likely than non-gamers to be the victim of bullying at school (40.7 compared to 27.2) and bullying online (25.9 compared to 15.7). But according to a report by Business Insider, a study has shown that school in kids in the UK take their in-game skins very seriously – they’ve turned it into a denominator for a sort of modern caste system. Specifically, 21 of gamers and 11 of non-gamers had bullied others at school, while 11 of gamers and 6 of non-gamers said they had cyberbullied others. It doesn’t matter as long as you have the skills to pay the bills. You don’t need the skins sure, meaning your character remains a “default” as they say in Fortnite. As it turns out, kids and microtransactions are a bad mix. You get the game for free, but you spend on in-game items – and in Fortnite’s case, you spend on their highly-sought after premium skins. One problem with the game, and any free-to-play multiplayer game is the microtransaction system. No video game gathers player bases of two generations quite like Fortnite – meaning you get really young kids on the hit battle royale shooter too.
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