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Parents of kids who bought things on the popular "Fortnite" video game may soon be able to claim a refund. The Federal Trade Commission announced last year that Fortnite maker Epic Games would pay ...
The FTC detailed three groups who will be eligible for refunds. Parents of children who made unauthorized credit card purchases in the Epic Games Store from January 2017 to November 2018. Fortnite ...
Fortnite is the most popular title from Cary-based developer Epic Games. FTC said it tricked consumers into making unintended purchases.
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 ...
Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc. was a lawsuit brought by Epic Games against Apple in August 2020 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, related to Apple's practices in the iOS App Store. Epic Games specifically had challenged Apple's restrictions on apps from having other in-app ...
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.
According to the FTC, Epic maintained a design that prompted accidental in-game charges, even after more than a million users and many employees raised concerns dating back to 2017.
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 ...