Hey GAMERS. Fortnite and Epic have to give players $245 MILLION in refunds. See who qualifies.
Epic Games, creator of the massively popular video game Fortnite, wasThe developer was ordered to pay $520 million for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act in part by tricking millions of players into making unintended in-game purchases using a technique called"Dark patterns."
Fortnite is free to play and makes billions of dollars from in-game purchases such as digital skins for players' characters and seasonal"Battle Passes" that provide useful items as a user spends more time playing., the FTC said that the game's"counterintuitive, inconsistent and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button," including while players thought the game was in sleep mode or in a loading screen.
Fortnite allowed children to purchase its in-game currency"without requiring any parents or card holder action or consent." Parents complained that their kids"racked up hundreds of dollars in charges before they realized Epic had charged their credit card without their consent."
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