Fortnite's Item Shop Looks Very Different Right Now; It's Empty

The Fortnite item shop has ballooned in recent years. In 2018 or so, you might find a new character skin, or "outfit," in there a few times per week. These days, it's a megastore full of licensed music, muscle cars, virtual Lego playsets, Marvel heroes, and even the protagonist of a 1970s Mexican superhero sitcom, for reasons that still elude me to this day. But today the shop looks very different: It's almost entirely empty.As you might expect, this isn't intentional, and Epic has said it's working on a fix, but it's rather jarring to see the shop so devoid of in-game purchases, given how many tabs of colorful digital toys it's usually lined with these days.We're investigating an issue where the in-game Shop and Web Item Shop may appear empty.We'll provide an update once this is resolved. pic.twitter.com/cLlcJrdEB2 — Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) May 9, 2025 The only things for sale currently are the few items purchased with local currency rather than V-Bucks, as well as the level skips for the Fortnite Star Wars battle pass. This includes things like a Fortnite Crew subscription, and "starter packs" that tend to include a few bundled items for cheap. Everything else has vanished like your total crowns on a season launch day.Continue Reading at GameSpot

May 9, 2025 - 18:49

Fortnite's Item Shop Looks Very Different Right Now; It's Empty

The Fortnite item shop has ballooned in recent years. In 2018 or so, you might find a new character skin, or "outfit," in there a few times per week. These days, it's a megastore full of licensed music, muscle cars, virtual Lego playsets, Marvel heroes, and even the protagonist of a 1970s Mexican superhero sitcom, for reasons that still elude me to this day. But today the shop looks very different: It's almost entirely empty.

As you might expect, this isn't intentional, and Epic has said it's working on a fix, but it's rather jarring to see the shop so devoid of in-game purchases, given how many tabs of colorful digital toys it's usually lined with these days.

We're investigating an issue where the in-game Shop and Web Item Shop may appear empty.
We'll provide an update once this is resolved. pic.twitter.com/cLlcJrdEB2 — Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) May 9, 2025

The only things for sale currently are the few items purchased with local currency rather than V-Bucks, as well as the level skips for the Fortnite Star Wars battle pass. This includes things like a Fortnite Crew subscription, and "starter packs" that tend to include a few bundled items for cheap. Everything else has vanished like your total crowns on a season launch day.Continue Reading at GameSpot