Epic Games to Pay $520 Million Over Children’s Privacy and Trickery Charges

[CoolMe]

"The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced a $520 million settlement with Epic Games, the developer of popular video games like Fortnite and Fall Guys, over charges that the company illegally collected information from children and, separately, tricked millions of players into making unintentional purchases."

"Epic agreed to pay $275 million to settle regulators’ accusations that it violated a federal law, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, by collecting personal information from children under 13 who played Fortnite without obtaining verifiable consent from a parent. In addition, the company made parents “jump through hoops” to have their children’s data deleted and sometimes failed to honor parents’ deletion requests.."

- Full article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/...ytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

[Jokey_Carrot]

Ain't no way they got trickery charges. What's next fucking Tom Foolery

 

[sombrerosonic]

Epic fell into the SAME ASS HOLE that the devs who made angry birds did.... kinda strange huh?

 

[Luke94]

Sometimes I think Fortnite Battle Royale kids should try Jazz Jackrabbit instead.

 

[CoolMe]

Sometimes I think Fortnite Battle Royale kids should try Jazz Jackrabbit instead.

Anything is better than playing Fortnite. Period.

 

[Luke94]

Anything is better than playing Fortnite. Period.

Oh yes.

 

[nWo]

EA when???

 

[Luke94]

Jazz Jackrabbit deserves to evolve(symbolically speaking)likewise Sega these days nowadays with Sonic the Hedgehog it looks like Jazz Jackrabbit is no longer Epic Games videogame/computer game mascot.
I would rather prefer Jazz Mania instead of Fortnite Mania.

 

[Kioku]

Silly Epic, tricks are not for kids.

 

[Xzi]

If Fortnite can no longer trick kids into spending thousands on their parents' credit cards, there goes 90% of Epic's revenue.

 

[Bladexdsl]

ahahahah hhahahahay hahahahahahah good fuck off epic

 

[Maximumbeans]

Uh ohhh that wasn't very EBIC of them.

 

[DinohScene]

Ah, the natural cycle of giant companies!

 

[SylverReZ]

That's not so "EPIC" of them.

 

[Luke94]

https://gamerant.com/epic-games-unreal-engine-5-tournament-graphics-performance-showcase-fortnite/

 

[AkiraKurusu]

Okay, now I'm curious; what is this "old game" that "no-one gives a shit about"? Two posts got deleted for the same reason, so Streisand effect.

 

[Luke94]

Okay, now I'm curious; what is this "old game" that "no-one gives a shit about"? Two posts got deleted for the same reason, so Streisand effect.

Jazz Jackrabbit computer game series? Another videogame clone of Sonic the Hedgehog?

 

[WiiWare]

"Hey kids, we're relatable! Buy our emotes that are not stolen from the actual music artists!"

 

[Luke94]

Back in my days to finish playing computer game you didn't need a trainer,coach,tutor,menthor,idol,fully paid motivator in private life you had to learn yourself. Back in my days nobody was helping me out playing videogames because I had symbolically speaking learn myself of how to finish the game nobody was holding my hand. I was indiependent player/gamer myself. Not like kids these days nowadays. In my case I didn't know how to use cheat codes definitely there were no aimbots back then when I was a kid myself.

 

[naxil]

Back in my days to finish playing computer game you didn't need a trainer,coach,tutor,menthor,idol,fully paid motivator in private life you had to learn yourself. Back in my days nobody was helping me out playing videogames because I had symbolically speaking learn myself of how to finish the game nobody was holding my hand. I was indiependent player/gamer myself. Not like kids these days nowadays. In my case I didn't know how to use cheat codes definitely there were no aimbots back then when I was a kid myself.

aim bots have been around since quake 1.