Key Takeaways
- Epic Games recently revealed that unlocks from Fortnite’s future battle passes will have a chance of showing up in the Item Shop.
- Fans have wondered whether that will apply to older battle passes from previous seasons.
- That doesn’t appear to be the case, as a support page from Epic has seemingly answered that question for good.
Epic Games has confirmed once and for all that battle pass rewards from older Fortnite chapters and seasons aren’t going to become purchasable in the Item Shop.
Ever since Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode dropped in 2017 and propelled it into being one of the most successful games in the world, it’s had an undeniably huge impact on the gaming industry. Perhaps the biggest example of this is how it took the at the time niche battle pass and turned it into a staple of pretty much every live-service game on the market.
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Fortnite’s approach to battle passes has changed a lot since 2017 (such as introducing stars as a currency that lets you choose your rewards), and it’s about to change yet again as Epic recently confirmed that certain battle pass rewards have a chance of being purchased from the Item Shop. It’s not fully clear how this will work and what rewards won’t be locked behind battle passes, which has led to a lot of speculation.
Fortnite Won’t Put Old Battle Pass Rewards In The Item Shop
One of the main questions that Fortnite fans have had about the change to battle passes is whether rewards from older seasons and chapters will be put up for sale in the Item Shop, or if it only applies to future passes. As pointed out by reliable Fortnite insider HYPEX and Twitter user TheAgentShadow, Epic has actually explained how it’s going to work on its support page.
The support page confirms that the change in exclusivity only applies to rewards included in battle passes that have been released after August 7. That means that battle passes from older seasons of Fortnite won’t be coming to the Item Shop in the future and that their rewards will remain exclusive.
It seems that Epic confirmed how this would work a few months ago, but considering the fact that fans are still speculating that Fortnite OG will bring older battle passes back, it seems that a lot of players missed the announcement.
Although it’s possible that Epic will change its mind in the future, for now it seems that any players hoping to get another chance to play as Peter Griffin or Spider-Man are out of luck. Here’s hoping that some variants are added to the Item Shop so those characters aren’t locked in the Fortnite vault for newcomers.
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