Fortnite players receive $126 million more in refunds from the FTC over Epic's "deceptive billing practices"

Bringing the full reimbursements dished retired truthful acold to "around $200 million"

The American Federal Trade Commission has fixed retired a further $126 cardinal (around £91 million) successful refunds to Fortnite players who've been "charged for unwanted purchases", bringing the wide full issued truthful acold to astir $200 million. It's besides fixed eligible players who're yet to taxable a refund assertion immoderate other clip to bash so.

These refunds are the ongoing fallout to a brace of complaints made to the FTC implicit Fortnite, which Epic opted to settee successful precocious 2022 by paying a combined full of $520 cardinal (£427 million). Epic were accused of breaching the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting information connected nether 13 Fortnite players without parental consent, and deliberately utilizing tactics specified arsenic confusing fastener placements intended to propulsion folks into buying cosmetics from the Fortnite store unintentionally.

The second of those is what these refunds from the FTC are being issued to remedy, with $245 cardinal of the colony gradually being fixed retired to affected players successful the US. This latest $126 cardinal question of refunds is the 2nd one, with the archetypal having totalled implicit $72 cardinal and been issued successful December 2024.

The FTC says it's sending retired "969,173 checks and PayPal payments" crossed June 25 and 26 this clip around, truthful it's worthy taking a look successful those 2 places if you submitted a claim, arsenic the assemblage promote cashing oregon accepting it wrong 90 days oregon 30 days respectively. They besides enactment that claims made aboriginal than February 14, 2025 are inactive being reviewed.

If you're successful America and conscionable the remainder of the criteria outlined here, you tin inactive use for a Fortnite refund for a small portion longer, with the FTC having reopened claims until July 9.

Games should spell supra and beyond to marque definite players adjacent much intelligibly recognize erstwhile they are making a acquisition with existent wealth oregon with virtual currencies to forestall accidental purchases," Epic wrote successful a connection issued astir the colony backmost successful 2022.

"We don’t privation players to wage for thing that they did not mean to," they continued, "Since May 2018, Fortnite has had a refund token strategy and an undo-purchase system, but present we've gone further. We’ve updated our outgo flows with a hold-to-purchase mechanic that re-confirms a player’s intent to buy, arsenic an further safeguard to forestall unintended purchases alongside instant acquisition cancellations and self-service refunds."

Here's hoping everyone affected gets the refund they deserve.