🎮💸 Epic Games: Serving L’s and Refunds Since 2017 💸🎮

Well, Fortnite fam, remember that time you clicked once and BOOM — your in-game avatar suddenly had a new skin, 3 emotes, and a shiny pickaxe you didn’t want, all while your real wallet screamed in pain? Yeah, so does the Federal Trade Commission. 😏💥

Epic Games is coughing up a cool $520 million (insert evil laugh here) in one of the most expensive “Oops, our bad” moments in gaming history. Turns out they allegedly:

• 💳 Charged players for in-game junk no one asked for

• 🧒 Let children go full capitalist chaos with their parents’ credit cards

• 🔒 Then locked accounts when people dared say “Hey, this is fraud”

Way to double down, Epic.

This class action settlement is basically Fortnite’s version of the Battle Royale — only this time, it’s your refund that’s dropping from the sky instead of loot. 💰🪂

🧾 Who Gets Paid?

If you played Fortnite in the U.S. between January 2017 and September 2022, and:

• You got charged for unwanted items,

• Your kid went on a V-Bucks bender with your credit card between 2017–2018,

• OR your account got locked after you complained…

Congratulations! You’re entitled to cold, hard cash (or a digital PayPal zap, whatever floats your battle bus). 🚍💵

💼 The Fine Print (Because There’s Always Fine Print):

• This is Round 2 of the settlement. Round 1 already handed out $72 million.

• This time, $245 million is being refunded to players, and $275 million is going toward civil penalties — AKA “Don’t do this again, Epic.”

• Deadline to file a claim is July 9, 2025.

• If you filed before Feb. 14, 2025, just sit tight — your refund is cooking.

• Expect more payments in 2026 because apparently, even refunds need time to respawn. ⌛🔁

🔒 What’s Changing?

Going forward, Epic must:

• Ask nicely before taking your money

• Stop treating chargebacks like war crimes

• Be less shady in general

Who knew that “Free-to-Play” could rack up this many zeros? 🙃

🧠 Moral of the Story?

Epic might’ve created one of the most addictive digital playgrounds of all time — but now they’re also one of the few gaming companies to get spanked with a half-billion-dollar settlement. If nothing else, it’s a lesson in corporate karma: don’t mess with parents’ credit cards or gamer rage. 👩‍👧💳💥

So file that claim, cash that check, and go buy something that isn’t pixelated regret.

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