Fortnite YouTuber Typical Gamer missed out on the game’s ultra-rare Pirate Shop Token after quitting a match as a joke, only for his teammates to find one moments later.
TG had spent roughly 80 hours searching for the reward, which allows players to claim eligible Fortnite Item Shop cosmetics for free during two separate 14-day periods.
Typical Gamer misses Fortnite Pirate Shop Token after 80 hours
In a TikTok video recounting the incident, Typical Gamer explained that he had been playing Fortnite for around 12 hours a day since the Treasure Hunters season began, searching for the elusive token.
Despite spending days opening chests, he had never found one. That changed when one of his teammates began trolling him, prompting the YouTuber to leave the game as a joke.
“Last game my teammate was trolling me a bit so I left as a joke,” he explained. “In that game, they find the pirate token.”
The video then cuts to footage of the match, with Typical Gamer’s teammates reacting in disbelief after one of them apparently discovers the reward.
“Oh my God, no way,” one teammate repeatedly shouts, while another insists that the discovery is genuine.
“I leave one game, the first game I left in 80 hours of playing, and I don’t get it,” he said. “They literally are in that game. Is that not insane?”
For reference on the item’s rarity, Epic Games confirmed on November 7 that the reward has a one-in-137,500 chance of appearing whenever a player opens a chest during a normal match, although those odds improve during scheduled Treasure Hours.
Finding a token while playing in a squad grants the reward to every teammate. However, Typical Gamer had already left the match when his teammates got the drop.
