Fortnite gamers to start receiving refunds after Epic Games settlement with FTC

Kalhan Rosenblatt is a reporter covering youth and internet culture for NBC News, based in New York.

More than 600,000 players of Fortnite will start to receive refunds after federal regulators said Epic Games, the developer behind the popular game, “tricked” people into making unwanted purchases. The Federal Trade Commission announced Monday that it is sending more than $72 million to impacted players in the U.S., with additional refunds to be distributed at a later date. The average payment is about $114 per player, according to the agency.

A spokesperson for the developer did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. “The FTC alleged that Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players of all ages to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button,” the agency said in its release Monday.

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