The first payments for a 2022 Epic Games settlement over deceptive in-app purchases are going out, but qualifying gamers have until Jan. 10, 2025, to submit a claim and get up to $114.
Money from a $245 million settlement that Fortnite developer Epic Games agreed to pay is now going out to affected US consumers who were tricked into buying in-game goods. And there’s still time for you to claim a piece of the payout.
The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it’s sending out the “first round of payments,” after securing the settlement from Epic Games in December 2022.
“The average payment is about $114”, the US regulator said, although the median payment is $80. During this first round, the FTC is sending 629,344 payments totaling more than $72 million to affected consumers.
