Fortnite's Pay-to-Win Microtransactions Tested with $100,000 V-Bucks Experiment

A detailed experiment testing Fortnite's new pay-to-win microtransactions by spending over $100,000 worth of V-Bucks reveals how players can purchase powerful weapons and advantages, highlighting concerns about gambling mechanics and game balance in Creative mode.

Full English Transcript of: I Spent 1,000,000 VBUCKS (pay to win)

Fortnite has microtransactions. You can now spend V-Bucks buying guns, cheats, even gambling. Epic Games have sold their soul to the devil. So, I bought a million V-Bucks and I am going to make the devil rich. This video will not end until I'm broke. Right now, it's just in Fortnite Creative, but some of these games are bigger than Battle Royale. Steal a brain rot picked over a million players. Battle Royale is only at like 300K. So, the biggest games on Fortnite that most of the kids are playing now have pay to win. I want to start with a combat map that's like most similar to Fortnite itself. One v one with every gun. You can see it's got in island transactions. I'mma be swiping my credit

card for a gold scar. All right, here we are. Well, at least they have a bunch of free guns. At least the children have guns that they can use for free. Oh, we love a good shot, don't we, guys? Oh, look at this toxic slime rifle. 500 V-Bucks. What a bargain. All right. Well, I'm going to start buying every single gun. That's our first purchase. Oh, Royal Hammer. 500 V-Bucks. Infinite Minigun. 500 V-Bucks. Impulse shotgun. Lowgravity gun. Rift revolver. Galaxy flint knock. Yep. This looks like a Yeet pistol. I like it. Oh, this feels fantastic. My wallet is being drained.

All right, I think this is everything I bought. Uh, it cost me about 10,000 V-Bucks. About $100. All right, let's go test the weapons. See if these are worth the V-Bucks. All right, let me test the flint knock. It's an infinite flint knock. Yes, this is my dream weapon. Unfortunately, I can still take damage. I was not able to pay for invincibility. Oh, HIT HIM. OH, GOT HIM. TRY AND TELL ME THIS AIN'T VALUE FOR MONEY. All right. What about the sheriff pistol? This gives me a cowboy hat like I'm in Toy Story. This cost me 500 V-Bucks. 143.

Hit the shot. Laser beam. All right. It's just a normal gun, but I have a sick hat. Worth it. I got these med pistols. Um I'm assuming they heal people. Don't worry, child. I'm just here to heal you. I'm just giving you health. Okay. I promise. I thought I was helping you, bro. What the [__] do these do? I got this Pepper SMG for 750 V-Bucks. Okay, this gun that I just used, the Peppa SMG. Maybe this is the most overpowered one. It shoots so fast. I HAVE THE POWER OF FINANCE. I JUST DON'T LIKE that this kid can still damage me. It's It's not [__] 10,000 V-BUCKS AND I CAN STILL

[__] DIE. ALL RIGHT, SOME OF THESE WEAPONS are cool. And you know, in fairness to the game, you can unlock these for free. You can grind for them, but only an idiot would do that when you can just use a credit card. I just wish I was invincible. I need to go find a game that lets me literally cheat. Sniper oneot. Nice. Wow, there's so much visual vomit on my screen. All right, this is the shop. Oh, we love to see it. Admin abuse, minigun, and flying hacks. This is what I'm talking about. We found it. 5,000 V-Bucks for a virtual minigun.

The uh the three other players in this lobby are about to have a really bad time. Oh, look at them run around with their little snipers. Look at him try and snipe me. And he's dead. Dead. Oh, everyone else quit the lobby already. It's just me and this guy. Dead. Oh, he quit. I just spent $50 to kill one guy like six times until he quit. This is what Fortnite is in 2026. So far, I've spent about 15,000 V-Bucks. That's nothing. The biggest game on the platform, Steal the Brain Rock. This gets over a million concurrent players. Let's go see what they're selling. If you've never played a Brain Rock game before, you basically

collect uh Ballerino lal. They're all different rarities. Some earn more money than others. Every kid in the world loves this [__] My biggest video of 2025 was spending money in the Roblox version. I could go steal Cranky Frankie's burbalini. Lalini. Oh, he's slapping me. I'll slap you, bro. I'm stealing it. Burbalini lolly. I'm robbing a child. Oh, he's trapped me. He's trapped me and he's slapping me. Okay, I'm in a slap fight with a six-year-old. But now the game has a premium shop. We love it. Uh, you can go here and you can buy lucky blocks. These give you really rare brain roots. Like, a child would probably stab their own mother for a strawberry elephant. 1% chance. They're so cheap. They're only 2,700 V-Bucks each. That's $27. Um,

yeah, it's basically children gambling. You can also buy $200 neon slap. All right, let me test out this hand. Let me slap this child. I evaporated them. All right, money well spent, I reckon. So, when I try and buy a lucky block, uh, this is what happens. Offer not available. Yes, in Australia, they're legally not allowed to do this. So, I have laser wallet here. This is my US wallet. It has 100,000 V-Bucks on it.

I'm using this to buy the lucky blocks. Nothing will stop Laser Beam from gambling. Our mission is to see how much money it takes to get the rarest brain rod. All right, wallet. You can start buying lucky blocks, mate. We can buy two at once. So, it's 5,000 V-Bucks every time I click this button. They spawn in my wallet's base and then I can steal them. This is how I work around the restrictions. Take that, Australian government. I think I've just taught children how to do a crime by doing this. The funniest part about this, a child could spend thousands of dollars getting a strawberry elephant and then just have it stolen immediately.

Let's get opening. All right, let's see what WE GET. PATHETIC. ALL RIGHT. Another $25. Let's just keep going. Okay, this is getting stupid. Surely I GET SOMETHING DIFFERENT. COME ON, MAN. I'M $100 IN. All right, we got something different. All right, that's the second most common one. I did spend $5,000 on the Roblox version of this just to get my nephew a toilet. I'm a veteran of this. All right. Okay, this sucks. All right, first $200 in. We got a couple bicycles and a couple iPhones. The best part is we just quick sell them. We're literally throwing these in the bin. I can't be bothered stealing them, so I'm just going to have my wallet open them. My

wallet still has 60,000 V-Bucks. Surely we get it before it goes to zero. All right, go on, wallet. Get to work. Well, you're just as lucky as I am, wallet. This is bad, man. All right, you're also unlucky. All right, that's disgusting. All right, go buy more lucky blocks, buddy. Hurry up. I've employed this guy just to sit there buying lucky blocks. Fill up the base. Every time we fill up a base and delete the base, it's 24,500 V-Bucks. All right, get to work, buddy. If this doesn't teach you something about gambling and losing money, I don't know what will. I just want to see something different, man.

Coco blade. Yes, we got something. Coco Blade. Oh, that's the 6% one. We're starting to see some rarer ones. Back to our regularly scheduled programming. That is the last three and we're out of V-Bucks. 106,000 V-Bucks all gone. All right, come on. All right, surely we get the elephant. One more. Surely we get the elephant. This is scripted if this happens. We just burnt $1,000. This is an experiment. Don't try this at home. Bad idea. I can't use my Australian V-Bucks, so my wallet has to go back to the store. All right, we drained one of my wallets. Now we have laser wallet, too. Can only do about 100,000 V-Bucks per account per day. So, I need multiple wallets. I'm not stopping until I get the elephant.

Oh, these aren't what we want, man. But we can't stop until I see an elephant. Fill up the base again. Let's go. Oh, okay. It's another one of those ones. All right. Lucky. Gross. All right. This is the last one on the second wallet account. Elephant. [__] sake. That's another 80,000 V-Bucks. All right. We've got laser wallet three. Another roughly 100,000 V-Bucks. We can't stop, man. was so close to the diamonds. 99% of lucky block openers quit before they hit it big. This is a lesson for all the kids out there. I'm

just relaxing and I'm SAD CURRENTLY. OH. OH, THAT'S A NEW ONE FOR US. IT'S THE second rarest one. Laser wallet three might BE THE CHOSEN ONE. OH MY. JUST GIVE ME THE [__] ELEPHANT. THAT'S 3% CHANCE. And now we've had two of them. The third wallet is the lucky one. Oh god. Okay. All right. This is the last lucky block on the wallet 3 account. [__] sake. I'm really bad at Fortnite gambling. We have officially opened over a 100 lucky blocks. Statistically, we should have the elephant. I will not

sleep. I will empty all my bank accounts. Our fourth wallet. We got to keep going. That's our fourth wallet drained. This is what Epic Games wanted. Look at us. We're so happy about this. We're on our fifth wallet. There seems to be some sort of underwater event going on. Not sure how this affects things, but we're not going to stop. We've got three of those, man. YOU'RE [__] WE'VE HAD FOUR OF THESE. I DON'T KNOW IF you've noticed, but it's gotten dark in my room. We've been here all day opening Christmas presents.

These are the last ones on the fifth wallet account. Unreal. How's your average child supposed to gamble this much? Here we have wallet number six, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, for some reason it's funny in Roblox, but I feel gross doing it in Fortnite. Come on. Too n this will be cinema. Last one. Uh, yeah. My US employee has literally uh bought out every store in his area. So, uh, he's going to have to go to a new city tomorrow just so we can get this health. All right, we are at wallet number seven. So far, we've opened 200 lucky blocks. That is roughly 500,000 V-Bucks. I never intended for this to happen, but for research purposes, I have to see how bad IT IS. WE'VE HAD

FIVE OF THEM. I'M STARTING TO THINK the elephant's not in the game. I think we're getting scammed. Based on these percentages, we should have two by now. All right, last one on this account. Are we lucky? 360. I'm on my eighth wallet. Let's go. [__] me. Are these glitched? What's drawback? [screaming] It's real. We're freed from this prison. We're free. Oh, I'm sweating. I am disgusted with myself and how much money it took to get that. Oh, so the strawberry elephant is like one of the rarest things in the Roblox version. Every child in the world wants one, and this is what it takes to get one in the Fortnite version. Almost 600,000 V-Bucks just to get this

elephant. I'll leave it up to the community to decide if this should be a thing. I'm a content creator. For me, I can afford this. It's funny. But I'll let you decide if this should exist. I have an idea to turn this from something disgusting into something wholesome, though. Let's just give it to a random child. Do you love steel the brain rot? Am I talking to a 50-year-old? Okay. Well, that's He just said he's talking to a 50-year-old. Are you laser beam or something? I don't know. Is laser beam 50?

I don't know. Sound like it. Okay, man. This kid's insulting me, which makes me want to give him the elephant more. Have you ever had a strawberry elephant before? No. If you say Las Beam is the best YouTuber, use code laser. Uh, I might have a strawberry elephant. Uh, laser beam is the best YouTuber. Use code laser. Come on. Use code laser. M. Get a strawberry elephant. Uh, have a look in the base. Maddie the goat. What the heck?

Was I a lion or is that a strawberry elephant? That's a strawberry elephant. Thank you. You're welcome, buddy. You're welcome. I feel so much cleaner now. At least after all that, at least it went to a deserving child. I can't believe I got a strawberry elephant. Can I have something else? I do. You have any V-Bucks? Unfortunately, I spent all my V-Bucks. Well, that was amazing. I was talking to the real laser beam. That was a disgusting thing. Uh, but at least it ended on a wholesome note.

Thank you, Laser. I actually lied to the child because I couldn't use my Australian V-Bucks. The laser account still has 250,000. I tweeted out that I was filming this video. A bunch of people in the community started adding stuff to their maps just hoping I would spend money. I've had the idea to use this V-Bucks feature to do something wholesome to like give away some money. If I add a 5,000 V-Bucks purchase to my island that does nothing, will you use it? I responded, "Of course." All right, here we are. Unfortunately, no one else is playing it, but he's got a laser shot. Let's see if he was lying. Let's see if this button does anything. All right, there we go. Oh, it kicks everyone.

5,000 V-Bucks. I don't think I'm getting much value for that. There's no one here. I told him I'd buy it, so that's what I'm going to do. There we go. Enjoy your money. All right. You know what? I'll buy it again. Once wasn't enough. If I can give the Steeler Brain Rock game however many thousands of dollars I gave him. I can give this guy some money, too. Yeah. Let's just keep buying these. Yes. We're going to spend over 200,000 V-Bucks on this. Maybe we just go all the way to zero. Huh. I want to reward him for doing literally nothing. When he gets that paycheck at the end of the month, he's going to be very surprised. All right, one more purchase.

That's all I can do. And uh yeah, my account is empty. Something about him just straight up asking for free money made me laugh. I just checked and Pimit tweeted saying, "Thank you." Turns out I bought it 45 times. Well, I've spent 780,000 in total now, but I have one more account with over 200,000 V-Bucks. I want to see how evil these microtransactions can truly be. I want to push this system to its limits. I want to make the most diabolically disgusting payto-in game in existence. I worked with NJ and that's exactly what I've done. I made pay to- win. Basically, everything in this map requires spending money. All right, we start the game. We're blind. You have to buy everything in this map. Yeah, we got voice lines. You have to purchase

eyesight. 50 V-Bucks just to get graphics. All right, we'll buy that. Haha, thanks for the money. Yeah, and then I laugh at you. Oh, yep. You also can't move unless you spend money. Yep. Have to buy the ability to walk. So, we start trapped in a cage. You literally can't leave. Um, unless we go up here and try and leave jail. And yep, you have to pay 50 V-Bucks to leave jail. Beautiful. All right, now we're free. Uh, we are out of prison. Can't jump unless you spend 50 V-Bucks. This purchase goes to supporting my wallet.

Yes, it does. All right. What if we want to like buy a gun? You know, say I want to I want a gold scar. Um, yep. 100 V-Bucks for an assault rifle. Beautiful. No way you actually bought that. I just insult you the whole time. And yes, obviously you have to buy ammo as well. 50 V-Bucks for ammo. Now, what if we want to shoot our gun? Nope. Can't shoot your gun unless you pay 50 V-Bucks. I'm going to purchase the ability to fly. 750 V-Bucks. Very cool. I don't think I can show the full potential of this map without a testing dummy.

Welcome, Mal. Uh, you are trapped in a cage. I literally can't see anything. My screen is black and I've got to spend 50 V-Bucks. I am making you richer, Lannon. Okay, leave jail. Oh, another 50 V-Bucks. Thank you, Lannon. This is awesome. All right, Mal, thanks for the V-Bucks, buddy. But I've brought you here so we can test this. We have to show the people what they're going to get for their money. All right, I have all these options. I can uh What does spawning Mr. Beast do? 50 V-Bucks spawn Mr. Beast. Yeah, you can get twerked on by Mr.

Beast. And Okay. And then he's just farted on me and I've died. Okay. I want to buy a rock. 150 V-Bucks. Okay. That's uh I landed. I've become a rock. Like I am quite literally a boulder. There's so much stuff on this map, man. There's so much stuff that I have to show you. Let's spawn a Lachland. Surely this one's awful. What is going on? What is he doing? You give ME LACHLAN. TAKE CIPHER PK. HEY, WHAT'S UP GUYS? It's Cipher. BRO, I CAN'T MOVE. HE'S HITTING ME WITH THE FORTNITE. I NEED TO TALK. I want to talk to Fortnite.

I've got 30 LL's dancing around me and Laser Beam is watching a Cipher PK video. This is the best 100 V-Bucks I've ever spent. Honestly, thank you guys so much for watching. That was a traumatic experience. God, you know what? This map needs brain rod. For 450 V-Bucks, we can have some brain rods. Let's go. Oh, I am now a job application. Okay. All right. All right, let me see if I can put you out of your misery. Spawn meteorite. 250 V-Bucks. Oh, no. All right, we've tested most of the store. I want to go explore the map. There's a lot of Easter eggs. The developer added all these on his own, so even I don't know what they are. Yeah, what about this one over here? Oh, I

like what I'm seeing here. Start performance. Oh, we got a live event for 5,000 V-Bucks. This is going to be good value. This is worth $50. Let's go. Live event acquired. Three. Two. OH, IT'S NEW YEAR'S. He's flossing. Come on, man. I want to see the crowd. Get it going. No one's dancing. Everyone lost. Let's get it. Come on, baby. I'm not seeing enough movement. Oh my god. This is [__] incredible. You pay 5,000 V-Bucks, you can relive this iconic moment. All right, one more island. Uh, looks like we're heading to Mount Rushmore. Uh, questionable list.

Let's head over there. Lennon, what is that? Why is there a Lachland standing there in a forest? Dude, that is creepy. Talk to power Locky. Not sure I want to. 5,000 V-Bucks. Lachlan will take your money. I don't know how to feel about this. All right. He just robs money out of my pockets and then he gives me a bag of trash back. Yes, that is how Lachlan treats his fans. That makes sense. Speaking of Lachlan, I've invited him to play the map so I can steal his V-Bucks. All righty. Yep. You have to pay to see or don't. It's your choice. This is the best Fortnite experience ever.

Lucky, I brought you here cuz I really want to see uh your reaction to your cameo in this map. Donate to Lachland. only usable in this experience. I'm so excited. Here we go. 5,000 V-Bucks. He just steals the money from you and then gives you a piece of What the hell, bro? Cuz you hate your fans. Get it, bro. This is defamation. What the hell, bro? Wait, is that it? That's your cameo. Yeah, I'm just stacking the V-Bucks. I'm printing. All right. What's this? Sacrifice money to appease the icons. Literally just burn money. 5,000 V-Bucks. IT'S FLYING OUT OF MY STOMACH INTO THE FIRE. This is the most evil map to ever exist. I still have way too many V-Bucks on this

account. I want to see if I can throw it all in the fire. I have to drain this account. I want to spend over a million V-Bucks in this video. I get all of this back, though, so it's actually fine. It just goes straight into my wallet. All right, I'm almost broke. There's one thing left to buy. Nuke the server. My last 5,000 V-Bucks. All right, nuke the server acquired. Bro, what is that? It's my arm. It just says yeet. I'm yeeting the server, I think. No. What about all the money I spent here?

You've retired, my children. Thank you, bro. I WANT A REFUND. It's fading to white. We're dying. What the hell? Thanks for the V-Bucks. I mean, if that doesn't violate the terms of service, I don't know what will. I have now spent over a million V-Bucks on this video. I did it. I spent a million V-Bucks. I feel like we really pushed the system to its limits. So, I'll let you guys decide if this is good or bad. But, I think I need a shower. I feel dirty.

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