Fortnite will soon let you buy exactly the V-bucks you need

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Jay Peters

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If you want to buy a skin or virtual gear from the Fortnite item shop but don’t have enough V-Bucks, Epic Games is going to add a way to “top up” your V-Bucks balance so that you can buy just the V-Bucks you need to afford your purchase.

Epic is calling this feature the “Exact Amount” offer, and it will be available starting October 14th on Android, iPhone, iPad, Nintendo, PC, Xbox, and Epic’s item shop for Fortnite on the web. That means the feature, at least initially, won’t be available on PlayStation, but Epic says that “we will work to make this available everywhere.”

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Here’s Epic’s explanation of how this might work in practice:

Let’s say you want an item that costs 500 V-Bucks but you only have 400 V-Bucks in your account. You’ll be able to buy just the 100 V-Bucks needed.

Exact Amount will display offers in increments of 50 V-Bucks, Epic says. The company also bringing Exact Amount offers to Rocket League and Fall Guys.

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