New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….
Original story (published on November 03, 2021) follows:
Fortnite, the popular battle royale game, is constantly receiving new content. One of the most recent updates brought the Minty Legends Pack.
However, it seems that Fortnite players are having an issue while trying to acquire or claim the Minty Legends Pack on the console version.
An issue doesn’t allow console Fortnite players to redeem a physical code for Minty Legend pack
Fortnite offers two possibilities for the purchase of credits and items within the game: digital purchase and physical code inside a card.
It seems that players of the console version of Fortnite who acquired a physical card with a code for the new Minty Legends pack cannot claim their purchase.
Anyone else not being able to redeem their minty legends pack on xbox?
The title explains itself, it says that the code is invalid for me. Anyone else?
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Affected players report that, while trying to redeem the physical code they purchased for the new Minty Legends pack, all they get is a ‘Invalid Code’ error message.
Fortnite team is aware of the issue and working to resolve it
This issue has been officially acknowledged by the Fortnite team. The official Twitter account in charge of publishing all the news about the game replied to a report as follows:
We’re aware that players on Xbox consoles are having issues redeeming the physical version of the Minty Legends Pack.
We will update you when these issues have been resolved.
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Therefore, the affected players can only wait for the company to confirm that the error has been resolved, and make sure to keep safe the physical card with the code to redeem it later.
Minty Legend Pack was ‘available’ by mistake
Another issue with the Minty Legends reported by some Fortnite players was that it suddenly disappeared from the store (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
So why did they remove the minty legends? Were they not supposed to come out yet or was there another glitch or something. I was hyped about these.
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However, this would have been a confusion because of the Fortnite team. The Minty Legends pack would have been accidentally listed in the store one day before the established date:

Now, according to reports, Minty Legend Pack should be available to all Fortnite players without problems:

When more news appears related to the issue while redeeming the Fortnite physical code for consoles, we will update this article to keep you informed, so stay tuned.
Update 1 (November 4)
1:32 pm (IST): This issue where players were unable to redeem the physical edition of Minty Legend pack has since been fixed.

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