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The settlement consists of $245 million in customer refunds that are intended to cover the costs of unwanted in-game items like outfits, emotes, or V-Bucks — the game's virtual currency. Epic ...
Fortnite is the most popular title from Cary-based developer Epic Games. FTC said it tricked consumers into making unintended purchases.
Fortnite Battle Royale is a free-to-play battle royale video game developed and published by Epic Games. It is a companion game to Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative survival game with construction elements. It was initially released in early access on September 26, 2017, for macOS, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, followed by ports ...
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. Following its first commercial video game release, ZZT (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames ...
A standalone battle royale game version, Fortnite Battle Royale, was released for the same platforms in September 2017; in associated with this change, Epic dropped the use of loot boxes, instead opting for direct purchase of cosmetics through in-game V-bucks currency. Following the release, the player-versus-environment mode was officially ...
In 2020, Epic Games announced it would accept direct payments on the mobile app version of Fortnite. The move briefly allowed the company to circumvent Google and Apple’s in-app fees on purchases.
Google is a lawsuit brought by Epic Games against Google in August 2020 in the Northern District of California. [ 1] Filed concurrently with Epic Games v. Apple, Epic had challenged Google's monopolistic practices on its Google Play Store on Android devices. A jury trial was held in November and December 2023, after which the jury found for ...
The Epic Games Store officially changed its refund policy this week, according to Epic Games' Director of Publishing Strategy Sergey Galyonkin. Galyonkin took to Twitter on Friday to announce that ...