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The Federal Trade Commission has announced it will issue refunds to nearly 630,000 Fortnite players after ruling that the maker of the popular video game, Epic Games, duped people “into making ...
U.S. consumers who were “tricked” into purchases they didn't want from Fortnite maker Epic Games are now starting to receive refund checks, the Federal Trade Commission said this week. Back in ...
Epic Games agreed to pay $245 million in refunds to Fortnite players who federal regulators say were "tricked" into making unwanted in-game purchases.
Similarly, in 2019, the FTC settled with video game publisher, Epic Games, over allegations that the company misled consumers about the cost of in-app purchases in addition to using dark patterns that encourage unintended in-game purchases in its popular game, Fortnite. As part of the settlement, Epic Games agreed to pay $275 million in refunds ...
(Courtesy: Epic Games) Fortnite players who were “tricked” into making unwanted purchases can now file refund claims with the Federal Trade Commission. The average payment is $114 per player.
In March 2023, the United States Federal Trade Commission fined Fortnite developer Epic Games $245 million for use of "dark patterns to trick users into making purchases." The $245 million will be used to refund affected customers and is the largest refund amount ever issued by the FTC in a gaming case. [41]
Epic Games is known for games such as ZZT developed by founder Tim Sweeney, various shareware titles including Jazz Jackrabbit and Epic Pinball, the Unreal video game series, which is used as a showcase for its Unreal Engine, the Gears of War series which is now owned by The Coalition and Xbox Game Studios, Infinity Blade, Shadow Complex ...
The refunds ordered by the FTC are available to any parents whose children made unauthorised credit card purchases on the Epic Games Store between January 2017 and November 2018, as well as ...