Midas, for those who aren’t familiar, is a Fortnite character whose touch turns everything gold. Even now well over a Chapter after his first reveal, there are golden items that pop up in strange locations indicating Midas had been near. The character was first revealed in Fortnite Chapter 2: Season 2, in which he was also the Level 100 unlock for that season’s Battle Pass. Midas now appears as a neutral NPC within Fortnite, and has several Outfits based on him sold in Fortnite’s store.

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The story that Donald Mustard shared regarding Midas on Instagram one year ago goes like this. With just a short time before Midas would be put into Fortnite, he had a major design difference. Mustard says that Midas once wore glasses. However, the Fortnite team couldn’t get glasses to work quite how they wanted them to yet, and as such Midas “didn’t look cool enough.” In a last-minute change, Epic Games removed the glasses and released Midas as he is now.

Fortnite players from Chapter 2: Season 2 might recognize that a version of Midas with glasses was still seemingly accidentally included in the game, despite the change. When Midas first launched, he also had a yacht introduced as a new landmark. Within The Yacht was a statue of Midas, only Epic Games had forgotten to remove the glasses.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to see Midas with his glasses in Fortnite anymore. The Yacht, and the statue within it, were quickly taken over by Deadpool and then destroyed in Chapter 2: Season 3. What with the map-flipping shenanigans of recent seasons, even the wreckage can no longer be found.

It just goes to show how tightly scheduled Epic Games’ development of Fortnite is. With such an aggressive live service, Fortnite receives updates week-to-week. That means leadership in the company is constantly making decisions regarding what’s “cool,” what makes sense, and what’s manageable. Midas’ glasses is probably one of the plainest examples of changes Epic Games makes in the days before an update hits.

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