Fortnite developer Epic Games has backtracked after accidentally bringing back a limited-time exclusive skin almost five years after its release and threatening to take it from new purchasers. The skin in question is The Paradigm – a skin that was originally available for just three days in October 2019. At the time, it was advertised as an "exclusive" item that would only be "available for a limited time," but lo and behold, those who saw Fortnite's Item Shop refresh with new goodies overnight were in for a surprise, as The Paradigm was inexplicably back, giving players another chance to add her to their Lockers if they weren't able to before.
Alas, it wasn't long before Epic Games stepped in to shut this down, removing her from the Shop and releasing a statement to explain that the skin had been brought back "due to a bug," so it definitely wasn't intentional. To make matters worse, the developers planned to outright remove the skin from new purchasers' Lockers "within the week," refunding the V-Bucks they spent at the same time. As you'd expect, this didn't go down well, with players calling the move "kinda wrong," and saying it's effectively "punishing new players.
" It also revived the everlasting debate over whether Fortnite should even have 'exclusive' items in the first place. There are loads of old Battle Pass-exclusives like Spider-Man and Geralt of Rivia that newer players simply can't own because of the way they were distributed. While not quite in the same boat,.