FTC Reaches Two Epic Settlements with Fortnite’s Maker

The FTC has settled its largest refund amount and established its largest administrative order in the history of the department and gaming industry. This settlement and administrative order were both with gaming giant, Epic Games. Epic Games is the owner of video games such as Gears of War, Dauntless, and Fortnite. The company has an estimated yearly gross income of $907 million a year, with a vast majority of its revenue coming from Fortnite. Fortnite is Epic Games’s most popular game, with over 400 million users worldwide, many of those users being young adults and teens.