Recently, Epic Games sued two gamers for cheating in Fortnite and took the case to the court instead of just banning them. Epic did not know the identity of the gamers at that moment but it later revealed that one of them was a 14-year-old.
Epic wished to deal seriously with cheating and cheaters in the and thus took to the court. Their strategy was legit but it was poorly implemented.
His mother was not at all happy with the decision and decided to address the court directly via a letter. Here are the key points she had addressed in the letter.
- She says that Fortnite’s terms require parental consent for minors and that she never gave this consent.
- She says the case is based on a loss of profits but argues that it’s a free-to-play video game and that in order to prove a loss Epic would need to provide a statement certifying that Rogers’ cheating directly caused a “mass profit loss”.
- She claims that by going after individual players, rather than the websites selling/providing the software necessary to cheat in an online game, Epic is “using a 14-year-old child as a scapegoat”.
- She claims that her son did not, as Epic allege, help create the cheat software, but simply downloaded it as a user, and that Epic “has no capability of proving any form of modification”.
- Finally, the mother says that by releasing her son’s name publicly in conjunction with the move that Epic has violated Delaware laws related to the release of information on minors.
You can also read the letter below.
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