Fortnite Battle Pass And Paradigm Skin Mistakes Are The Latest Of Many Shop Problems
There have been all sorts of Fortnite item-shop anomalies over the past year and a half, but things have gotten exceptionally weird lately. We’re about a week away from a new season, but every Fortnite diehard has their focus on the same thing today: the item shop. The news that items and skins from future battle passes will be eligible to be sold in the shop starting 18 months after the end of each season is just the capper (so far) on a week in which the item shop simply refused to be normal. Following months of the item shop seeming unhinged and uncontrollable, this week has given us our most surprising item shop gaffes yet.
Let’s run down the current strangeness. Last week, the item shop briefly sold a jam track from last season’s battle pass in the shop, before Epic hid it from the shop and forced refunds to those who purchased it. Also last week, every item in the shop claimed it was leaving on August 6, even though items in the shop never rotate in or out as one collective like that. After that didn’t happen, everything shifted to saying it would rotate out on August 13, which is just as untrue.
The most significant goof of them all came this past Tuesday; Epic accidentally sold The Paradigm skin for the first time since it was released in 2019–despite the fact that it was advertised and sold back then as an exclusive release timed to the Season X finale event. It was intended to never be sold again. For Fortnite’s most diehard digital collectors, to say the surprise was monumental would be a dramatic understatement–it was, honestly, as much of a shocker as the change to battle pass exclusivity would be 12 hours later, and it kicked off a pretty bizarre evening.