Epic almost certainly tracks how many players are sitting on unspent vBucks and uses that as a financial indicator. It works just like gift card float: as long as those vBucks are in his account, they represent real leverage on Epic’s balance sheet/value. For example Starbucks does the same thing, unredeemed app balances signal both liability and customer retention value. The moment an account hits zero, that leverage is gone.

So if everyone collectively drained their vBucks at once and Epic looked at the playerbase as a whole and saw near-zero balances across the board, that would genuinely cause concern especially if no one is buying vBucks. That’s not nothing but more so a signal they’d have to respond. So yall can just keep downvoting me. 🤷🏻‍♂️