The company Epic Games awaits the end of the investigations of the tragedy at the festival …
After the tragedy involving Travis Scott and his show at the Astroworld festival on November 5, which resulted in the death of eight people and several injuries, the Fortnite game decided to remove the rapper’s emotes from the in-game item store. .
Fortnite and Epic Games had scheduled to release a new Travis emote, Out West, to be sold in the ‘Daily’ section of the Item Shop, but they removed it after the tragedy.
The image for ‘Out West’ is inspired by Scott’s song of the same name and includes an excerpt from the original song.
Some followers managed to buy the emote before it was removed from the store.
It is unknown if Fortnite will reissue the emote when the investigation ends.
Epic Games and Fortnite remove Travis Scott’s musical “Out West” emote alongside other items in the game’s daily section in light of the Astroworld Festival tragedy. pic.twitter.com/RhNkNOcLMK
— Rap Daily (@rapdailytweets) November 8, 2021