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Fortnite’s ‘Recon Expert’ skin is back in the item shop and that’s just fine

Calling anything OG after three years is dumb. Those are the rules.

Epic Games has never really shied away from being edgy when it comes to Fortnite.

I mean, this is the game that blew up its entire universe and created another one. Nothing is off the table when it comes to Fortnite, and its audience knows that.

That’s why it was so weird to see some people wasting five minutes of their life getting mad online about the “Recon Expert” skin being back in the item shop for the first time in forever.

To quickly recap what’s going on, when some gamers fired up Fortnite on Wednesday, they probably saw the “Recon Expert” skin available for purchase.

Honestly, it doesn’t look like anything special. It’s just a soldier woman with a hat. Pretty cool. But, again, nothing special.

The real reason why this is a big deal is because, back when Fortnite was in its infancy, people were calling it a children’s version of PUBG, the Recon Expert was one of the game’s most popular skins.

If you have a kid that plays this game, they’ve probably asked for your credit card a few times to buy some “skins” and you were probably like “WHAT?!?” Don’t worry. That’s what this is. Skins are simple. They’re basically characters that you can play as on Fortnite.

Recon Expert started off as a normal, beginner skin. But, eventually, as the game grew it disappeared and never appeared in the item shop again. So, basically, the only way to have the Recon Expert skin was to have played the game when it first dropped in 2017. It turned into a badge proving one’s “OG” status on Fortnite.

Until today, anyway.

With the OG skin back in the item shop, newer players had a chance to buy it and play in it. Which is great! Unless you’re an OG. Because now, apparently, people can’t tell if you’re special.

Lots of tears were flowing online. And, if I can be quite honest, for no good reason.

Again, it’s just a skin. If I can be honest one more time, skins are mostly dumb. On this particular game, most of them don’t have special abilities or give you a competitive advantage. You just…wear ’em. That’s it. You wear them.

Being upset about someone else using a skin on your game is the same thing is being upset about seeing someone, randomly on the street, with the same shirt as you. And not, like, a special shirt either. Just a regular, blue t-shirt that went out of stock 3 years ago and is now back.

It’s totally fine for new people to be able to wear this totally normal skin — especially if they’re paying actual money for it. Sorry.

Plus, calling anything OG after three years is dumb. Those are the rules.