The FTC makes the right move, it was so unfair that Epic Games could do terrible things to PC gamers and manipulate them however they saw fit. This is a big issue that happens in the live service industry that should be separated from the gaming space. What many of these mega studios seek is to replace real video games with slop that can get deleted with the push of a button. Fortnite will meet the same fate as previous live service titles that have disappeared from the face of earth, no matter how much standing it has, its not comparable to when it was booming. We at Infinite Start will cover what happened.
FTC makes the best move
Affected players will be able to sign up for a big refund from a pool of around $126 million dollars, this is because Epic Games manipulated players into making unwanted purchase via FOMO tactics and fake timed events. People who are tourists in the industry often dismiss this as a conspiracy theory, but it is a fact that behavioral psychologists are a part of every live service team. That’s when we know that the game is rigged, and its not really a game in the first place, but a scheme to get you spending some hard earned cash.
The FTC makes the best choice available they had, trying to condemn that severe violation, and things in Europe do not go the way of what companies see fit thankfully. If the European government wants, they can basically purge the ability from any company of actually distributing products they don’t want. If the United Kingdom wanted, they could probably just ban Epic Games from the country, it would honestly be a big change if that were to happen, but they are busy making the right choices, just very slowly.
