FTC successfully sues Epic Games, fines them for 500 million

[Gizmo_Duck]

Lina Kahwg ain’t playing

 

[daze23]

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.

 

[Harry B]

These new democrats working for the wellbeing of people are gonna turn big business republican again

Fortunately they're filled with nazis, tin foil hats and anti gays and on making the transition difficult for many

 

[Canon]

 

[NZA]

deploying dark patterns...i dont know what that is but it sounds demonic

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

Bots shaking in their boots

 

[Diunx]

No wonder the free games this holidays have been complete garbage.

 

[duckbutta]

Deploying dark patterns aimed at children

It sounds so

 

[Tunez]

 

[McPiff]

good

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

deploying dark patterns...i dont know what that is but it sounds demonic

You never felt the presence of dark patterns while playing Fortnite?

 

[NZA]

You never felt the presence of dark patterns while playing Fortnite?

thankfully, i have never played fortnite

 

[FromStLouis]

Hmm privately owned, now on the hook for $500M, co-developers of the gears franchise.

 

[humminbird]

deploying dark patterns...i dont know what that is but it sounds demonic