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

[Luke94]

aim bots have been around since quake 1.

Oh really?

 

[CoolMe]

Oh really?

Not even the H. P. Lovecraftian creatures, say like Cthulhu? And if there will ever be a Jack Jazzrabbit remake /3D the aimbots & the cgi will be so real..it'll look like something from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man games on PS4/PS5, the Avatar movies etc. Now, i want the gameplay to be akin to the 2D Kirby games, the ones from the original Gameboy era. But a person can wish amirite?

 

[Luke94]

Not even the H. P. Lovecraftian creatures, say like Cthulhu? And if there will ever be a Jack Jazzrabbit remake /3D the aimbots & the cgi will be so real..it'll look like something from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man games on PS4/PS5, the Avatar movies etc. Now, i want the gameplay to be akin to the 2D Kirby games, the ones from the original Gameboy era. But a person can wish amirite?

I didn't know that Quake had aimbots. However I guess flying I mean floating eyes in Tubelectric from Jazz Jackrabbit since first installment as enemies/foes were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft book novels. Am I right or am I wrong?

 

[impeeza]

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"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

if a felony is punished with money is only an offense for poor people!

 

[CommanderCool]

reminder that none of this money will ever see children