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Federal regulators ordered Epic Games to pay $520 million to settle charges that the company tricked Fortnite users into making unwanted purchases.
The payout is just the first round of refunds following a 2022 settlement in which Epic Games agreed to pay $245 million to Fortnite players who fell victim to its "unlawful billing practices ...
The game's design nudged people into racking up unauthorized charges, the FTC said. Here's how customers will be refunded. Fortnite creator Epic Games sends customers $72 million refund.
Epic Games has used the names Potomac Computer Systems, Epic MegaGames, and Epic Games; the name given for the company is the one used at the time of a game's release. Many of the games under the Epic MegaGames brand were released as a set of separate episodes, which were purchasable and playable separately or as a group.
A season pass is a form of video game monetization in which consumers purchase a discounted package for current and future downloadable content (DLC) and/or Expansion packs for a video game atop its base cost. A game may have a single season pass or, for some lifestyle games, new season passes over time.
Fortnite Festival features in-game "seasons," which are themed around specific featured artists and adjust in-game material accordingly. Seasons utilize a battle pass system called the Music Pass (formerly the Festival Pass), which allows players to unlock additional songs and cosmetics based on the season's featured artist. [15]
The news comes two years after the FTC ordered the North Carolina-based Epic Games to pay a total of $520 million to settle allegations that it collected personal data from children without first ...
An example of a Battle Pass screen from the game Fortnite Battle Royale, showing its original two-tier, multi-level reward system of Chapter 1 Season 8 (2019). In the video game industry, a battle pass or rewards track is a type of monetization approach that provides additional content for a game usually through a tiered system, rewarding the player with in-game items for playing the game and ...