Epic sues Fortnite cheater, forces them to donate their "undeserved" winnings and publicly apologize
Epic Games has sued a player who used a shared account to illegally qualify for the Fortnite Global Championship in 2023, forcing the cheater to publicly apologize and donate all of his earnings to charity.
The details:
In a post on X, the company announced that it had sued the cheater, Morgan "RepulseGod" Bamford, after it was discovered that he had shared his account with a friend in order to qualify for the $4 million FNCS 2023 Global Championship. As a result, Bamford has been permanently banned from all future Fortnite tournaments, and his winnings has been donated to Child's Play, a charity that provides gaming equipment to children in hospitals and other forms of care.
Bamford was also required to create a humiliating public apology video, which was uploaded to YouTube. In the video, the cheater admits that he shared his account with a player named "Forbes" in order to qualify for the tournament. He also stated that he must now pay an undisclosed "monetary settlement" to Epic, which includes the aforementioned prize money.
While this is an example of cheating without the use of third-party software, cheating has become increasingly prevalent in multiplayer games in recent years. While some anti-cheat systems, such as Riot Games' Vanguard, have proven effective against cheaters, others, such as Call of Duty's Ricochet and BattlEye, which is used in many popular games including Rainbow Six Siege, have fallen behind cheat developers.
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