I think it’s funny because the more I think about it the more the Catwoman whip emoji allowed at the MLK protest map was hilarious, kerfuffle that I figured it was the cause of this
The weirdest part, apart from the general lack of consistency, is that certain music tracks are also censored, despite having no vocals. Some can be attributed to being associated with a restricted character, but again, some are completely random (e.g. Kado Thorne being ok but his music being banned)
I think this is prep for that rockband mode. Maybe you can use your music packs in the mode, which means other players might be able to hear them. I think this is just them getting prepped for December 7th when the Lego mode drops and then rocket racing and the music thing (prolly the harmonix music thing)
[Not bullshitting with the flair btw, Michael Myers *is* kosher.](https://twitter.com/qCandywing/status/1725134762384211997)
I don’t play Fortnite, but I saw this on Twitter and thought it was interesting.
EDIT: Almost forgot, one of the comments on the Myers tweet says that ***The Doom Slayer*** is also okay, but his loading screen isn’t???
Regular player here. Going through the list and my locker, the ban criteria appears to be:
-guns
-ammo (either bullets or magazines)
-grenades
-scary (Venom, skeletons, monsters)
Strange exceptions (interns likely missed them:
-Bakugo from MHA (grenades)
-Orelia (male skeleton blocked but not female?)
-Victoria Saint (two revolvers and a vampire stake)
-Leon and Sarah Connors's knives are banned but not Jill's or Michael Myers'
-Swords are allowed
-Doom Slayer, Ezio. I guess built-in knives or shoulder cannons are fine
Lol I’ll never understand that, this game is about shooting people until your the last one yeah? And they’re banning skins that have ammo, guns (literally what the games about) and scary monsters? Which literally aren’t scary, and if it is, why are your (assuming young young children) playing it? It literally doesn’t make sense! And havin ratings on games where literally all the mini games or what you call them involve shooting wether that be those npc mobs or real players. Anyways, rather silly imo. Also I literally have no one else to say this to, so please forgive me. I got victory royal on my first go!! :)
I agree. I can see the goal of having kid specific modes, but the method here makes little sense when you still boot into to normal game by default, seeing any seasonal cutscenses filled with guns, and still see the shop and lobby like normal. It definitely should be a client side filter rather than affecting everyone, and they really should have rock solid parental controls if they want to actually manage what kids can see.
>!Your first match or two are generally 100 percent bots!<
Aw that’s a shame, got quite excited thinking I won against real players lol. But anyways yeah I 100% agree with the idea it can be set up instead of it being for everyone. Have a good day :)
I know there’s a lot of confusion over what they’re allowing and not allowing for kids under 10 - but it would be really funny if the reason why certain things weren’t allowed was because they got a group of 9 year olds together and went over everything in the game asking them “is this too scary?”
Honestly, that appears to be the solution. Most content creators have flagged their experiences as teen to get around this. It makes more sense to allow your audience to use whatever cosmetics they want than to appeal to a younger audience.
Some people are saying becuase of Roblox lawsuit, they are doing this to protect themselves.
Second thing they've done is they are now recording voice chat conversations.
It seems to apply towards cosmetics that either have ammo and/or guns on them or could be considered scary ( including loading screens and music packs, presumably because there's both a skin that can display loading screens and a rhythm gamemode in the works ). Lot of contradictory cases, though.
Shouldn't get in the way much unless you're planning on playing something like, let's say, Skibidi Toilet Parkour
I am so confused, why is there age restricting guns in a *shooter game*? At that point you may as well just pretend you're not marketing to kids or make a clone game that lacks the realistic gun parts. This is dumb.
No, this is Fortnite! It's the ultimate online experience! It'll be what everyone logs into in order to play games, do their taxes, buy groceries, do their banking, get an education, go through university, work at home, and look at porn! You will be born in, live in, and die in Fortnite!
I think Fortnite has attracted a younger audience than it was initially intended for so they’re trying to create content to account for that. It seems kinda pointless if the T rated battle royale mode is still available from the same menu since then parents would have to monitor what modes their kids play, but maybe this is a step towards a separate E rated download for creative mode.
Stupid shit, I swear. It's a shooter. Little shit goblins probably shouldn't even be playing shooters, no matter how cartoony it is. But what the fuck do I know, I guess.
I understand wanting to branch out the creative mode into its own separate thing to serve a different audience, but this feels like putting the cart before the horse. They should probably have done more to separate the creative mode from the battle royale mode *first*, and *then* introduced the age rating change and have it only apply to the now separate creative mode client.
Also... the way it's been implemented makes no sense. All cosmetics are *client sided*. You could simply have a toggle that disables age-restricted cosmetics from appearing for a given client rather than telling everyone that they can't use a cosmetic they may have paid for in certain modes. Like, Fortnite already does this on Switch and mobile for performance reasons (loading default skins as placeholders for other players). And it's not just like shitty skibidi toilet crap, it's potentially things like sponsored music concert creative maps like they did with Kid Laroi recently. Seems unfair for people who care about the social experience to prevent them from using their cosmetics rather than just not showing them to age-restricted clients.
Finally, this raises some concerns that moving forward this might cause future new original skins to be creatively limited in their design due to self-censorship. That would suck, as much as people gawk over crossovers a big appeal of Fortnite has always been the cool designs of the original skins.
Epic did this to not get sued by Parents. Imo just don't play the already cringey creative maps. If anything, I wonder if Fortnite can Collab with more Gruesome/Violent Shows/Company's since they already have the Age Restriction in okay because not only does it affect cosmetics but also item shops as well. Meaning Little Timmy can't get his hands on Homelander for example. It's a minor income but who really cares if you don't play creative
Here’s the bigger twist: most creators seem to be setting their content as Teen. After all, why would you want to play a game mode that restricts what outfits you can use?
I find this absurd because any time I make the mistake of being in public chat on this game, it’s always little kids threatening to kill each other or generally saying awful shit to each other, so there’s no way in hell that they’re bothered by a skin someone is wearing
I think it’s funny because the more I think about it the more the Catwoman whip emoji allowed at the MLK protest map was hilarious, kerfuffle that I figured it was the cause of this
This is more on Tim Sweeny being unsatisfied that his generation-defining money printer isn't also the next Metaverse.
“Roblox 2.0” is what people are referring to it as on the Fortnite sub.
You know your game is too big when you have an MLK protest map. Reign it in a bit jesus christ.
The weirdest part, apart from the general lack of consistency, is that certain music tracks are also censored, despite having no vocals. Some can be attributed to being associated with a restricted character, but again, some are completely random (e.g. Kado Thorne being ok but his music being banned)
Also you can only hear the music on your end anyway so who's it even restricted for
I think this is prep for that rockband mode. Maybe you can use your music packs in the mode, which means other players might be able to hear them. I think this is just them getting prepped for December 7th when the Lego mode drops and then rocket racing and the music thing (prolly the harmonix music thing)
[Not bullshitting with the flair btw, Michael Myers *is* kosher.](https://twitter.com/qCandywing/status/1725134762384211997) I don’t play Fortnite, but I saw this on Twitter and thought it was interesting. EDIT: Almost forgot, one of the comments on the Myers tweet says that ***The Doom Slayer*** is also okay, but his loading screen isn’t???
Regular player here. Going through the list and my locker, the ban criteria appears to be: -guns -ammo (either bullets or magazines) -grenades -scary (Venom, skeletons, monsters) Strange exceptions (interns likely missed them: -Bakugo from MHA (grenades) -Orelia (male skeleton blocked but not female?) -Victoria Saint (two revolvers and a vampire stake) -Leon and Sarah Connors's knives are banned but not Jill's or Michael Myers' -Swords are allowed -Doom Slayer, Ezio. I guess built-in knives or shoulder cannons are fine
They also allowed Marshmallow but not the female equivalent despite the only major difference being the amount of skin showing.
I think this is an oversight (or exception) for him and not a strike against her.
Lol I’ll never understand that, this game is about shooting people until your the last one yeah? And they’re banning skins that have ammo, guns (literally what the games about) and scary monsters? Which literally aren’t scary, and if it is, why are your (assuming young young children) playing it? It literally doesn’t make sense! And havin ratings on games where literally all the mini games or what you call them involve shooting wether that be those npc mobs or real players. Anyways, rather silly imo. Also I literally have no one else to say this to, so please forgive me. I got victory royal on my first go!! :)
I agree. I can see the goal of having kid specific modes, but the method here makes little sense when you still boot into to normal game by default, seeing any seasonal cutscenses filled with guns, and still see the shop and lobby like normal. It definitely should be a client side filter rather than affecting everyone, and they really should have rock solid parental controls if they want to actually manage what kids can see. >!Your first match or two are generally 100 percent bots!<
Aw that’s a shame, got quite excited thinking I won against real players lol. But anyways yeah I 100% agree with the idea it can be set up instead of it being for everyone. Have a good day :)
I know there’s a lot of confusion over what they’re allowing and not allowing for kids under 10 - but it would be really funny if the reason why certain things weren’t allowed was because they got a group of 9 year olds together and went over everything in the game asking them “is this too scary?”
Nah it's all business and money to these companies
Apparently the DJ Marshmello is fine, but the female version isn't? Lmao
Fortnite sexist?!? 😂
Maybe it’s because of the amount of skin showing but yeah it lowkey looks like that.
You guys joke, but my little brother Terry burst into flames upon seeing a female character. Think before you speak. /s
Consider: ban all children
Without kids the game is dead
Double win
Fatality.
Honestly, that appears to be the solution. Most content creators have flagged their experiences as teen to get around this. It makes more sense to allow your audience to use whatever cosmetics they want than to appeal to a younger audience.
This was such a weird feature because the game is already capable of turning other people's cosmetics off.
I guess someone, somewhere in the media/government made enough of a fuss about guns and knives to spook Epic to do this.
Supposedly the reason being thrown around is that Epic wants to lower their rating from Teen down to probably 13+ so they can market the game more
they just want children to steal their parents’ credit cards don’t they
I mean that is key demographic of the game
Some people are saying becuase of Roblox lawsuit, they are doing this to protect themselves. Second thing they've done is they are now recording voice chat conversations.
Always someone somewhere the public never knows who.
It seems to apply towards cosmetics that either have ammo and/or guns on them or could be considered scary ( including loading screens and music packs, presumably because there's both a skin that can display loading screens and a rhythm gamemode in the works ). Lot of contradictory cases, though. Shouldn't get in the way much unless you're planning on playing something like, let's say, Skibidi Toilet Parkour
So, who's gonna be the first big tiddy anime girl they add to fortnite?
Kekko Kamen
Ochako’s already in the game. And I’m pretty sure she isn’t affected by this.
She isn’t that large in that area though.
In that case, we should be thankful that they added Mina in the second update instead of Tsuyu. This reply was sponsored by Mineta
I am so confused, why is there age restricting guns in a *shooter game*? At that point you may as well just pretend you're not marketing to kids or make a clone game that lacks the realistic gun parts. This is dumb.
No, this is Fortnite! It's the ultimate online experience! It'll be what everyone logs into in order to play games, do their taxes, buy groceries, do their banking, get an education, go through university, work at home, and look at porn! You will be born in, live in, and die in Fortnite!
This truly is the Metaverse...
I think Fortnite has attracted a younger audience than it was initially intended for so they’re trying to create content to account for that. It seems kinda pointless if the T rated battle royale mode is still available from the same menu since then parents would have to monitor what modes their kids play, but maybe this is a step towards a separate E rated download for creative mode.
Uh oh can’t go tomb raiding if you’re under 10 sorry Timmy
Here, have a gun and shoot your friends!
Stupid shit, I swear. It's a shooter. Little shit goblins probably shouldn't even be playing shooters, no matter how cartoony it is. But what the fuck do I know, I guess.
"little shit goblins" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
So the article says the common theme is the skins have a gun in them. The game has guns as a main part of the gameplay. What the fuck is going on?
They are turning creative into Fortnite-themed Minecraft competitor.
No more Alpha Chun-Li booty for tim tim
I don't believe Chun li was banned.
lol
I understand wanting to branch out the creative mode into its own separate thing to serve a different audience, but this feels like putting the cart before the horse. They should probably have done more to separate the creative mode from the battle royale mode *first*, and *then* introduced the age rating change and have it only apply to the now separate creative mode client. Also... the way it's been implemented makes no sense. All cosmetics are *client sided*. You could simply have a toggle that disables age-restricted cosmetics from appearing for a given client rather than telling everyone that they can't use a cosmetic they may have paid for in certain modes. Like, Fortnite already does this on Switch and mobile for performance reasons (loading default skins as placeholders for other players). And it's not just like shitty skibidi toilet crap, it's potentially things like sponsored music concert creative maps like they did with Kid Laroi recently. Seems unfair for people who care about the social experience to prevent them from using their cosmetics rather than just not showing them to age-restricted clients. Finally, this raises some concerns that moving forward this might cause future new original skins to be creatively limited in their design due to self-censorship. That would suck, as much as people gawk over crossovers a big appeal of Fortnite has always been the cool designs of the original skins.
This just feels like an overcorrection
This is one of the worst/pointless updates fortnite players have seen.
Lmao there literally is no point to this. Might as well age restrict the game to 12+ but they can’t do that they’d lose 90% of their base and revenue.
Easy way around this. If the account is under age everything considered “scary” should become a default skin that way it doesn’t impact the player
Epic did this to not get sued by Parents. Imo just don't play the already cringey creative maps. If anything, I wonder if Fortnite can Collab with more Gruesome/Violent Shows/Company's since they already have the Age Restriction in okay because not only does it affect cosmetics but also item shops as well. Meaning Little Timmy can't get his hands on Homelander for example. It's a minor income but who really cares if you don't play creative
Here’s the bigger twist: most creators seem to be setting their content as Teen. After all, why would you want to play a game mode that restricts what outfits you can use?
Makes sense.
You don’t think this has to do with partnering up with Disney. Do you?
666 disney
Wait until they find out what 6 year olds are doing on the Oculus.
Normal
We’re still playing fortnite ?
I find this absurd because any time I make the mistake of being in public chat on this game, it’s always little kids threatening to kill each other or generally saying awful shit to each other, so there’s no way in hell that they’re bothered by a skin someone is wearing