Fortnite‘s Treasure Hunters season brought with it the Pirate Shop Access Token, which gives players two weeks of free item shop cosmetics. The item seemed more like myth than reality. Epic Games confirmed it has an abysmal drop rate last night, following some uproar from the community.
The new Pirate Shop Access Token has a 1:135,700 drop rate from the new treasure chests, the company confirmed on social media. This low drop rate isn’t surprising, considering you can get most offerings in the item shop for free..
The company also explained the chances of getting the tokens are multiplied by 1.5 during Treasure Hours, making those insurmountable odds still kind of wild. Treasure Hours are specific timeslots with boosted drop rates for multiple rewards from these chests.
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In addition to the coveted Pirate Shop Access Token, Epic also showed the drop rates for the remaining items in treasure chests. The rarest of the bunch by far is the weekly gold outfit, which has a one-in-a-million drop rate—one in 1,562,500, to be more specific. Treasure Hours boost the odds of this by 7.5 times.
The full drop rates are:
- 1:1,562,500 – Weekly Gold Outfit (7.5x during Treasure Hours)
- 1:137,500 – Pirate Shop Access (1.5x during Treasure Hours)
- 1:7,813 – Weekly Vehicle & Decal (10x during Treasure Hours)
- 1:568 – Weekly Pickaxe or Backbling
- 1:391 – Weekly Jam Track
- 1:272 – Weekly Loading Screen
- 1:127 – Gizmo (any)
If the odds are still dishearteningly low, however, the company said “these rates may be higher in future Treasure Hours.” For instance, between 8pm and 10pm CT last night, the Treasure Hour doubled the odds of getting the Pirate Shop Access Token and multiplied the odds of getting the weekly gold outfit by 10, instead of 7.5.
The controversy started with the release of Treasure Hunters last week, when fans knew the drops were abysmal but didn’t have exact information on them. Epic broke the silence after a lot of asking, showing the detailed drop rates for the items.
Getting free items from the store and saving some real-life cash isn’t the most common move in the industry, and it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the odds of it happening are pretty slim considering the payoff you get from it. Still, even with these slim chances, Fortnite players are bound to continue hunting down their white whale.
