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Today, Epic Games announced that on October 14, 2025, players can purchase the exact amount of V-Bucks they need to buy an item from the in-game Item Shop. There is a caveat, though: you can only buy V-Bucks in increments of 50 V-Bucks because that will align with the cost of the items; you can’t buy, say, 44 V-Bucks because that’s pointless. This change is also coming to Rocket League and Fall Guys, but even then, there’s another caveat: this option will be available on all those games and all platforms except for PlayStation.
An Upcoming EU Law Likely Influenced Fortnite’s V-Bucks Change
This long-standing practice in the industry of not offering exact amounts is probably not changing on its own. The European Union is poised to soon pass the Digital Fairness Act, which would increase gaming consumer rights protections and has language outlawing “forced purchases.” Under this law, game developers would not be allowed to force consumers to spend their money on in-game currency in excess of what they need, and would require developers to give players the option to buy exact currency.
While this law would only be legally binding in the EU, companies often comply universally since it’s easier to do that than to manage separate versions of their game offerings in different regions. This tendency gives large markets with more consumer protections a greater influence over the industry, as seen with the recent UK law that required ID verification to view adult content and became the impetus for Xbox to prepare to implement verification across more regions in the future.
