Fortnite not banning players for the recent V-Bucks glitch was the right call

Fortnite fans exploited a glitch to get loads of V-Bucks.

Top5Gaming recently touched on a very interesting scenario where players were spending money on copies of Among Us and were getting countless V-Bucks for a fraction of the cost. V-Bucks is the in-game currency used to purchase most of the cosmetics fans can acquire. Yet when players were rewarded with a 600 count of V-Bucks for purchasing Among Us at a discounted rate, fans found there wasn’t a cap on this.

Basically, here’s what happened. Users who bought Among Us for 99 cents, would then be rewarded with 600 V-Bucks. Seems easy enough, yet users would then buy digital copies of Among Us for 99 cents. Since V-Bucks cost about $7.99 for 1,000, for eight dollars you would get 4,800 V-Bucks.

This was certainly a way to game the system, as 5,00 V-Bucks cast players $31. That means for $22 you could get around 13,500 V-Bucks when you’d normally pay close to $80 for that much.

Needless to say, Fortnite found themselves basically giving away V-Bucks with copies of Among Us. Despite this, the folks at Epic and Fortnite opted not to ban or punish any players who participated.

They knew they messed up, and that the player base just took advantage of a cheap way to get currency.

Fortnite made the right move by not punishing players who capitalized on this

It would have been easy to ban players for doing something that may have cost you money. If you’re Fortnite, you had two options, punish the player for doing something that was completely acceptable by your own doing or ban them to try and enforce the idea that they shouldn’t abuse the system.

By punishing them, you run the risk of getting gobs of backlash, as they didn’t do anything wrong. If you let them off the hook, you are able to accept responsibility for your own mistakes and earn some goodwill from the base by not acting like a petulant jerk for not making sure this didn’t happen in the first place.

Fortnite made the right call.