Children under the age of 13 have a daily spending limit. Parental controls would need a PIN to send and accept friend requests and enable parents to authorize purchases before they are made. In terms of children privacy, Epic Games has introduced parental controls in the main Fortnite lobby itself and in the Epic account portal. The company also introduced instant cancellations for purchases and a hold to purchase mechanic. It has issued return tickets to enable self-service refunds. For microtransactions, the company stated the following: there are no pay-to-win or pay-to-progress mechanics in player-versus-player experiences, random Item loot boxes have not been present in the game since 2019. It has gone over every issue and provided their solutions. Epic's responseĮpic has responded to all the issues that were listed in a lengthy press release. Therefore, Fortnite is now required to disable voice and text chat for children under the age of 13. Fortnites version, in the middle of a Wednesday, has over 100,000 concurrent players according to in-game counts Epic recently added to the Creative menu.
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FTC states that Fortnite was urged to change the settings for players to opt-in for voice chat, but the company resisted even though the children were falling victim to harassment. The latest Fortnite Icon series skin is the always lovely Loserfruit, or Lufu, a streamer and YouTuber known for her Fortnite and Overwatch content.
It has also learned that account holders are being charged without prior authorisation.Īnother aspect that has been caught in the fire is Fortnite's voice chat settings. This has been done through “counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration”. The unlawful practices include the following: usage of dark patterns to trick players into making unintended purchases.
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