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  2. How free-to-play Fortnite became a money machine - AOL

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    Millions of people are obsessed with Epic Games' Fortnite Battle Royale, a free-to-play game that has become a money-making machine for both the creators and live-streaming gamers who've mastered it.

  3. Fortnite players will receive refunds for unwanted purchases ...

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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 ...

  4. Battle pass - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Some Fortnite players are owed money back: Here's how ... - AOL

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    If you were charged in-game currency for items you didn't want between January 2017 and September 2022, or if your child made Fortnite charges to your credit card without your knowledge between ...

  6. Cheating in esports - Wikipedia

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    Tournaments often pay out prize money to the highest placing teams in these events, giving players an incentive to cheat. Commonly cited instances of cheating include the use of software cheats, such as aimbots and wallhacks , exploitation of bugs , use of performance-enhancing drugs , such as Ritalin and Adderall , and match fixing .

  7. Fortnite - Wikipedia

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    Fortnite is an online video game and game platform developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in seven distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: Fortnite Battle Royale, a free-to-play battle royale game in which up to 100 players fight to be the last person standing; Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative hybrid tower ...

  8. Fortnite just got $100 million in prize pool money to venture ...

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    Gaming phenomenon Fortnite just received $100 million in prize pool money from Epic Games to fuel its venture into competitive gaming. The sum is a large one for the world of eSports. Fortnite ...

  9. Epic Games v. Apple - Wikipedia

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    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 ...