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Epic Games, maker of ‘Fortnite’ video game, begins $2.75M settlement payout

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'Fortnite' maker begins $2.75M settlement payout

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Literally just chump change to them. We need to start actually punishing these fuckers, not slapping their wrists and saying "Don't do it again, alright??"
- What are you proposing?
  
  Fines that are a significant percentage of global revenue.
  Personal consequences for the people who made those decisions. For example if I started an illegal casino I'd be looking at jail time. Meanwhile these guys are literally walking away.
  
  Somehow force the people responsible to resign for knowingly pushing forward tactics that take advantage of the consumers/market, instate laws that prevent it from happening again, chop off their hands, take your pick
  
  It needs to at least be a steep multiplier of how much they earned. Consumers should be getting full refunds and the province should be collecting a tidy war chest off of Epic.
The funny part is that the compensation is maxed at $25/person, it's actually a joke for those that were affected.
- It’s weird that they have to payout anything when they were hardly the first to monetize this way
  
  What-about-ism is not a valid consideration for the law for very good reasons. I think we'd all be better off if more people in general could see through how petty of an argument it is.
Wow a whole 2.7 million. What's that 12 hours of revenue?
- Not even half that amount of time.
  So Epic games is complaining that they removed the loot boxes in 2019, so let's look at what they made around that time; about 4.5 Billion a year.
  So that's about $514,000.00 an hour, or about five hours and fifteen minutes.
So like the salary of a single executive.
- Fixed

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