{"id":5956,"date":"2026-03-24T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/fortnites-new-peak-skin-costs-twice-as-much-as-the-indie-game\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:08:08","slug":"fortnites-new-peak-skin-costs-twice-as-much-as-the-indie-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/fortnites-new-peak-skin-costs-twice-as-much-as-the-indie-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite&#8217;s New Peak Skin Costs Twice As Much As The Indie Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Epic added skins to <em>Fortnite<\/em> based on the hit indie co-op climbing game <em>Peak<\/em>. If you want to use one of these skins in the popular battle royale, you\u2019ll need to pay more than twice what it costs to buy an actual copy of <em>Peak<\/em> on Steam. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>On March 21, Epic partnered up with <em>Peak <\/em>developer Aggro Crab to add a series of <em>Peak<\/em>-themed cosmetic items to <em>Fortnite\u2019s<\/em> in-game shop. The main focus is a customizable scout skin based on the playable and adorable characters from <em>Peak<\/em>. To buy the basic Peak Scout skin in <em>Fortnite<\/em>, which comes with a few customizable options and a backpack, you\u2019ll need to plop down 2,000 V-Bucks. 2,400 V-Bucks costs you $23 so let\u2019s say 2,000 is in the neighborhood of $20. Meanwhile, a single copy of <em>Peak<\/em> will set you back $8.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sound the bugle \ud83c\udfba<\/p>\n<p>Peak outfits have climbed into Fortnite! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p14vlGiJtZ\">pic.twitter.com\/p14vlGiJtZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fortnite (@Fortnite) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fortnite\/status\/2035510619114442816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As pointed out by Twitter user cuzl2 (and many others online), if we do some basic math, that means this one <em>Peak<\/em>-themed skin and backpack costs more than twice the normal price of the indie game they came from.<\/p>\n<p>But wait, it gets worse. <em>Peak<\/em> right now is on sale as part of Steam\u2019s big Spring Sale event. So right now, <em>Peak<\/em> only costs $5. That means you could buy four copies of the online co-op climbing game on Steam for the price of a single skin in <em>Fortnite<\/em>. That doesn\u2019t seem right! Yet here we are.\u00a0 I just hope the devs at Aggro Crab get a decent cut of the sales.<\/p>\n<p>As pointed out by cuzl2 in the viral post I linked above, before Epic\u2019s recent increase to the cost of V-Bucks, the <em>Peak<\/em> skin would have cost around $18. For those keeping track at home, that\u2019s still more than <em>Peak<\/em> by quite a bit. But you must understand, Epic has bills to pay and needs the extra cash, okay? Have some sympathy for the company behind one of the most widely used video game engines on the planet and the creator of one of the most successful live-service games of the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>                          <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Epic added skins to Fortnite based on the hit indie co-op climbing game Peak. If you want to use one of these skins in the popular battle royale, you\u2019ll need to pay more than twice what it costs to buy an actual copy of Peak on Steam. Ouch. On March 21, Epic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5428,5471,206,381,5926,4035],"class_list":{"0":"post-5956","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-costs","9":"tag-fortnites","10":"tag-game","11":"tag-indie","12":"tag-peak","13":"tag-skin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}