More evidence coming in, exposing greed and corruption of Epic Games

Jimmy123 · 2023-02-28T17:49:16

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/fortnite-video-game-maker-epic-games-pay-more-half-billion-dollars-over-ftc-allegations The most interesting parts are: Illegal Dark Patterns In a separate administrative complaint, the FTC alleged that Epic used dark patterns to trick players into making unwanted purchases and let children rack up unauthorized charges without any parental involvement. The complaint alleged that Epic: Used dark patterns to trick users into making purchases: The company has deployed a variety of dark patterns aimed at getting consumers of all ages to make unintended in-game purchases. Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button. For example, players could be charged while attempting to wake the game from sleep mode, while the game was in a loading screen, or by pressing an adjacent button while attempting simply to preview an item. These tactics led to hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges for consumers. Blocked access to purchased content: The FTC alleged that Epic locked the accounts of customers who disputed unauthorized charges with their credit card companies. Consumers whose accounts have been locked lose access to all the content they have purchased, which can total thousands of dollars. Even when Epic agreed to unlock an account, consumers were warned that they could be banned for life if they disputed any future charges. Epic ignored more than one million user complaints and repeated employee concerns that “huge” numbers of users were being wrongfully charged. In fact, Epic’s changes only made the problem worse, the FTC alleged. Using internal testing, Epic purposefully obscured cancel and refund features to make them more difficult to find. Who on earth would ever want to use their Unreal Engine? That company is basically one scam after another, that's built on stolen money. Here's an interesting page, that exposes exactly who they are [Facebook link deleted by mod]

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Started by Jimmy123 February 22, 2023 11:38 AM

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February 28, 2023 04:52 PM

Geri said:
They have far better MMORPG-s: Genshin Impact, Perfect World, Honkai Impact…

Oh. I'm not up date date with MMOs, never played anyone at all.
So they don't need us anymore? Better games with proper censorship, their own GPUs, Epic, and on their way to get the largest economy and military soon.
They'll grab all our precious chips! And the moon too! We're fucked. /:O\

Time to buy some Intel so they can keep building their own fabs. And we still have ADSL. But you never know what those Dutch people do after smoking some pot. : /