Fortnite This is more than just a game in Battle Royale: it is also a platform that places wide experience with the playerLike Roblox. The developer Epic Games encourages fans to create islands, providing a convenient Unreal Editor, as well as the Creator program based on interaction. This is also a big business. Every year, EPIC pays millions of dollars to the most popular creators of cards.
But at least two developers tried to deceive Epic Games to believe that their cards were much more successful than they were actually, Fortnite The creator says. Now Epic Games is pursuing a lawsuit.
Bott is a common occurrence on the Internet. This applies to the practice of creating or buying fake accounts to increase numbers on digital media. For example, the Livestream Twitch platform has recently taken measures against vidobots that artificially inflated the simultaneous numbers For streamers. According to some estimatesMost of the Internet traffic as a whole is headed by bots, not people.
When it comes to FortniteEPIC pays creators based on a number of indicators, such as the length of the session and whether users buy something from Fortnite shop. EPIC also considers the number of people who participate in the creative Fortnite Fortnite card are also considered to determine the payment, and this is obvious that two people tried to use.
According to EPIC, the players Idris Nahdi and Ice Nasser allegedly created several fake accounts to download several cards. These two are accused of relying on more than 20,000 bots in order to artificially interact with their own creations. Real people seemed to interact with the cards in question, but Epic says that from 88% to 99% of participation was never real.
“The defendants programmed Bot accounts to interact with their own defendants Fortnite The islands using the cloud games service that allows users to play video games, such as Fortnite, remotely, ”says the application.
According to Epic, they allegedly earned tens of thousands of dollars through this scheme. After the Epic gained popularity, he stopped payments – and the parallels for the cards were dropped in accordance with.
“The defendants worked together to create several islands in an attempt to disguise their scheme, distributing a fake part in several accounts and islands of developers,” the lawsuit said.
As soon as they were caught, epic games begged the accused to “destroy all copies Fortnite At their disposal. “Obviously, these two did not stop playing Fortnite Despite a warning that is one of the many reasons why the epic games have worsened.
In the presentation, Epic says that he intends to restore the money that they paid under a false pretext, which is one of the motivation for the trial. Epic Games also wants to protect the holiness of his program, it says in it.
“The developers believe that the time spent on creating the islands will be rewarded in accordance with the terms of the payment of the interaction program, and depending on how real players interact with the islands,” the statement said. “However, the behavior of the defendants undermines Epic relations with the developers, however, depriving legal developers of the full share of the funds that they would otherwise receive, and destroying the trust created with them.”
In addition to money, Epic Games hopes that the courts will prohibit both players create accounts in the future, as well as from downloading or game Fortnite general. It is curious that the language used here And their “heirs” [and] Successors. “This suggests that if the duet has children someday, they will also be legally forbidden to hit the Peely grid. TBD, if the legal system would go so far.
In the past, Epic Games persecuted the trial Against the manufacturers of cheat and sellersAnd showed general intolerance to any kind. In summer, epic games forced two tournament fraudsters that he banned for life Publicly apologize for their behavior.
