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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.
FTC said it tricked consumers into making unintended purchases. Fortnite is the most popular title from Cary-based developer Epic Games. FTC said it tricked consumers into making unintended purchases.
As part of the settlement, Epic Games agreed to pay $275 million in refunds to consumers and to modify its in-game purchasing practices to ensure that consumers have clear information about the costs of in-app purchases.
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 ...
G2A.COM Limited (commonly referred to as G2A) is a digital marketplace headquartered in the Netherlands, [1][2] with offices in Poland and Hong Kong. [3][4] The site operates in the resale of gaming offers and others digital items by the use of redemption keys. G2A.COM’s main offerings are game key codes for platforms such as Steam, EA app, Uplay, PlayStation Network, Xbox, and Nintendo ...
The Epic Games Store is a storefront for games available via the web and built into Epic Games' launcher application. Both web and application allow players to purchase games, while through the launcher the player can install and keep their games up to date. Epic's newer games will be exclusively available through its store and the company plans to fund developers to release exclusively ...
FTC accuses Epic Games of ‘digital design tricks’ to boost sales revenue
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 ...