>FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges

>FTC Finalizes Order Requiring Fortnite maker Epic Games to Pay $245 Million for Tricking Users into Making Unwanted Charges
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/ftc-finalizes-order-requiring-fortnite-maker-epic-games-pay-245-million-tricking-users-making

Epic-bros, will the EGS survive?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    pay whom? Why are israelites attacking themselves now?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The israelite fears the kung fu fighter.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >FTC will use the money to provide refunds to consumers

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Muh israelites
      Reminder that the only true conspiracy that fox news unearthed was conserva-cucks being braindead cousin frickers.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Reminder that the only true conspiracy that fox news unearthed was conserva-cucks being braindead cousin frickers.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    so why isnt google or apple being slammed for the same "dark patterns" lawsuits? kids gambling their parents life savings on gacha games with the swipe of their finger is all too common since genshin impact released.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Google and Apple can afford to spend more on lobbying the government and hiring fancy lawyers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Google and Apple don't make the gacha games
      Epic does make Fortnite

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        google and apple take profit for each apple pay/google store micro-transaction tho so they are profiting off child gambling and refusing to refund parents because "lol should have read the tos"

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          yes, google and apple are under no obligation to provide refunds for your transactions made to a third party
          and are entitled to a portion of the transaction via their agreement with the third party
          is it a shell game? absolutely
          but one that protects google and apple

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            it still doesn't explain why they still aren't being charged for the same dark patterns lawsuits. Remember that google and apple ads literally mislead people into downloading malware or promising one time app buys that's are actually subscriptions on parents credits cards. All to profit Apple/Google at the end of the day because they get paid to host ads and they get paid for each app purchase even if it's scam.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I don't know about Apple, but the few times I bought something through Google Play, I was asked for password and then asked whether to remember the password specifically for faster payment. Of course I didn't opt in, why would I?

              Also Fortnite isn't even on Google Play, it's all Timmy's own distributed apk.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      i wish roblox gets punished too.
      Frick. MTX every 10-15 fricking seconds. Literally brainwashing children into soulless corpo cum guzzlers

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's because of what Epic did. Fortnite didn't have any safeguard for purchasing crap. If you pressed the accept button twice on your controller or keyboard, then you've made a purchase with no questions asked. This is part of what the lawsuit is about, as it was easy to trigger this action either by accident, lag, or something else.

      The messed up thing about that issue is that Epic was aware of this for a long time and ignored it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Additionally, the order bars Epic from blocking consumers from accessing their accounts for disputing unauthorized charges. xjgay

        lmao

        Bumping from page 10
        SAD!

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Good morning sir!

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        and how many gacha games make it stupid easy to charge your apple/google account

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I think with the stores you have to enable the one click purchase option in your personal settings, not so with Epic.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    245M is a drop in the bucket for epic and won't mean much but it's still funny

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      More than half of what Fortnite earns on PC in year.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >PC
        and? the total is 5 billion. cope and seethe.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Then why do you attempt to ruin PC gaming, timmy?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Funny thing about the EGS first party revenue decline in 2022 is that it also includes Fall Guys which was added there last year. So the Fortnite and Rocket League drops are probably even larger and Fall Guys helped soften the blow.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Rocket League
          I genuinely forget this game exists now.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >245m

    oh so a slap not on the wrist but on an individual finger lmao

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The Tim has the most succesful of the game engines for past three gens and one of the most profitable games ever he will be doing fine

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >The Tim has the most succesful of the game engines for past three gens
      There's something funny about Epic being unable to fix stuttering on PC in their own game on their own engine.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        no one noticed any stutters till digital foundry forced it down everyones throat

        literal brainwashing. Steam propably funds DF

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >literal brainwashing
          Unreal Engine has been plagued by stuttering ever since UE3, not shader stutter, but all kinds of other stutters, probably related to asset streaming.

          Modern Warfare Remastered was never popular on PC, because the PC port is a stuttery pile of shit, which also has broken shader compilation on any GPU released after 2017.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Unreal also has fricking garbage mouse input support and has since its inception.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >and has since its inception.
              I dunno, I think it was alright in UE2.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              for sume fricking reason, you had to go tinker documents CFG file to get the mouse accel and other bullshit off from UE3 games

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It doesn't even offer proper mouse accel. UE is garbage.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                i think it depends on the unreal engine build number. sure theres unreal engine 3 and unreal engine 4 but there's several different iterations of them. ue3 used in mass effect 1 is way different from the one used in mass effect 3.

              • 1 year ago
                Frank

                It's a console engine that was only ported to pc under great reluctance, I suspect; though to be frank, Tim's been not-so-subtly trying to kill off the PC as a platform since UT3 flopped.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >literal brainwashing
          Unreal Engine has been plagued by stuttering ever since UE3, not shader stutter, but all kinds of other stutters, probably related to asset streaming.

          Modern Warfare Remastered was never popular on PC, because the PC port is a stuttery pile of shit, which also has broken shader compilation on any GPU released after 2017.

          unreal engine always had a shader pipeline management problem but it didnt become noticeable until now when the shader counts have increased expontentially with the introduction of better lighting, particles, and other assets.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    why does tim want to be gabe newell so badly

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wonder if all those exclusive shitty Final Fantasy games was worth it.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    KWAB

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Additionally, the order bars Epic from blocking consumers from accessing their accounts for disputing unauthorized charges. xjgay

    lmao

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What's going to happen to the Kingdom Hearts games I bought on EGS if Timmy gets arrested?

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    $245M for one fine, another $275M for a settlement
    lol

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >there's a .gov website for Fortnite now
    lol

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, it was based on a genius and sustainable business model
    >buy games directly from devs and then give them away for free to entice users into featureless store
    >game quality no longer matters since EGS can't distinguish trash from treasure
    >dev after devs produces unfinished epic bait garbage
    >bleed money
    >don't bother to develop storefront features to appeal to actual game consumers
    >emote about how your own store's lack of features is unfair
    do they even have customer reviews yet? EGS was based on an anti-consumer model that cuts out the player from the equation

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >do they even have customer reviews yet?
      No, but they have a system where you get randomly surveyed after playing for 2 hours to give the game a 5 star rating. Apparently it's meant to stop review bombs because we can't let those mean gamers hurt the feelings of those poor widdle devs. 🙁

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    He looks like the guy who killed Murphy before he became RoboCop

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    so wtf does this mean
    if I've made purchases on fortnite within the past few years can I just get money back or what

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Using a spoiler to hide links is trickery

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