Epic Games is suing a former experience tester for leaking details on the new Fortnite: Chapter 2 content.
Back in September, a mysterious Twitter account started saying some wild things about Fortnite. Such as in season 11 you would be able toꦉ swim and there would be a totally new map, among other things.
It all sounded pretty crazy, but then on October 13th, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it happened. A black home consumed all of Fortnite and kept the game down for a whole two days. Then it all came roaring back with a new name. No longer was it merely called Fortnite--now it was Fortnite: Chapter 2, Season 1. And it turned out you could swim, and t🔜here was a new map. The leaker was right.
That Twitter account--@invisibl✃ellama9--turns out to have been owned by an “experience tester” within Epic Games named Ronaldꦿ Sykes, and Epic is not happy about what he did.
The whole “black hole” thing was really a marketing stunt so Epic could upgrade Fortnite’s servers and game engine. It was going to be a huge surprise, and while many of us were definitely surprised, Epic is arguing in a new lawsuit that Sykes caused monetary damages by revealing details on Chapter 2 before it arrived.
But more importantly, he also broke a🦋 non-disclosure agreement. Game developers tend to consider these things important, especially 🌞for their QA department folks.
According to , who obtained a copy of the lawsuit, court documents were filed in North Carolina District Court on Friday accusing Sykes of breach of contract that disclosed “trade secrets” and “spoiling the suspense that Epic had been working to generate and build for months in the run-up to Fortnite Chapter 2."
Epic is seeking maximum monetary damages, although they don’t disclose what that amount might be. After all, how do you val⛦ue a surprise?
Game d𒅌evelopers do value non-disclosure agreements, and that’s a little easier to put a🧸 price on.
Publishers and game makers have started coming down hard on leakers this year. Take-Two Interactive, the publisher for Borderlands 3, went after several YouTube and Twitch streamers that were leaking details on the game, including SupMatto who was considered one of Borderlands 3’s biggest hype men. Take-Two sent multiple take-down notices for his videos and even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:sent two private investigators to question SupMatto at this home.
SupMatto’s s🥀ocial media, Discord, and Yo💟uTube accounts have all been taken down, effectively ruining his career.
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