Usually, Fortnite players like it when Epic Games offers a free skin. But that’s not the case for Freediver, a new skin that’s available for free only through the Priority app, which offers various deals and rewards to customers of UK mobile providers O2 and Virgin Media. O2 and Virgin members can use the Priority app to claim a code that’ll let them unlock the skin by gaining a couple account levels.
Having a skin locked to specific regional mobile providers means that most of the people in the world cannot get this skin. Not that they’d probably notice, since it’s a fairly basic and not particularly interesting skin. But for folks who seriously collect Fortnite skins, that scarcity is a large part of its appeal–having this skin hypothetically offers a little bit of metaverse cred, since it’s not something everyone can even get.
We’ll probably be seeing more of this, however, because this is the second time this year Epic has done this exact thing. Back in August, Epic offered a purple version of this same skin–dubbed Thrilldiver–only to users of the Brazilian telecom company Vivo. It’s likely that this free skin is part of Epic’s renewed push for mobile players, and that more recolors of this skin will be offered to other groups of mobile customers.
