It’s the biggest penalty ever issued for breaking an Federal Trade Commission rule. 9News
company Epic Games will pay a total of US$520 million in penalties and refunds to settle complaints involving children's privacy and methods that tricked players into making purchases, US federal regulators said Monday.
The company is refunding US$245 million to customers who fell victim to so-called “dark patterns" and billing practices. In this case, “Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button," the FTC said.
“These tactics led to hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorised charges for consumers," the FTC said.Epic Games said it's making the payment to resolve concerns over “past designs of the Fortnite item shop and refund systems." The FTC will use distribute the money “to Epic customers at their discretion," the company said.
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