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The Federal Trade Commission has announced it will issue refunds to nearly 630,000 Fortnite players after ruling that the maker of the popular video game, Epic Games, duped people “into making ...
U.S. consumers who were “tricked” into purchases they didn't want from Fortnite maker Epic Games are now starting to receive refund checks, the Federal Trade Commission said this week. Back in ...
Certain Fortnite players who made purchases on the popular game between 2017 and 2022 are eligible for a refund after the maker was accused by the FTC of deceptive practices. Here's how to get it ...
In March 2023, the United States Federal Trade Commission fined Fortnite developer Epic Games $245 million for use of "dark patterns to trick users into making purchases." The $245 million will be used to refund affected customers and is the largest refund amount ever issued by the FTC in a gaming case. [41]
Fortnite players who were “tricked” into making unwanted purchases can now file refund claims with the Federal Trade Commission. The average payment is $114 per player. The average payment is ...
The GDPR also gives consumers the right to access, rectify, and erase data collected on them. At any time, consumers can request video game companies to correct or delete information on them if that information is inaccurate. [14] [15] The Consumer Rights Directive is a law that sets out a range of consumer protections related to online ...
Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be sufficient to ...
The game's design nudged people into racking up unauthorized charges, the FTC said. Here's how customers will be refunded.