PSA: Fortnite V-Bucks Are More Expensive Now

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Inflation has come to Fortnite.

By Phil Owen on

Epic Games announced last month that it would be inflating the price of its V-Bucks currency in Fortnite, and that day has now come--the new prices are live in-game and in platform marketplaces. From now on, if you live in the US, it's going to cost a bit more to add to your collection of Fortnite skins.

The main change today is an increase in the prices of direct V-Buck purchases, as well as the current starter pack and Save the World pack. The price of 1,000 V-bucks is increasing from $8 to $9, 2,800 V-Bucks is going from $20 to $23, 5,000 V-Bucks is moving from $32 to $37, and the cost of 13,500 V-Bucks is increasing from $80 to $90. For the new prices in other regions, check Epic's original announcement.

On top of the raw V-Buck price increases, the cost of certain real-money packs went up as well. The Extinction Code starter pack now costs 50 cents more, and the price of the Untask'd Courier Save the World Pack, which includes 1500 V-Bucks tied to time-consuming quests, jumped from $16 to $18.49, which is higher than Epic said it would be. And while the Anime Legends pack, which features cel-shaded remixes of three classic Fortnite characters, wasn't mentioned at all in the announcement, it went up in price by $3. But the Anime Legends pack is expected to receive a price cut for Black Friday in a few weeks, so now is an extra-terrible time to buy that one.

All the other real-money packs that are currently available for purchase in Fortnite, including the new Transformers pack featuring Gen-1-inspired Megatron and Bumblebee skins, are maintaining their old prices for now. But those will increase the next time they rotate into the shop. So the Transformers pack currently