Federal Trade Commission
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The Federal Trade Commission has finalized an order requiring Epic Games to pay $245 million to consumers.
The FTC said that Epic deployed a variety of design tricks known as dark patterns aimed at getting consumers of all ages to make unintended in-game purchases.
Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent, and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based on the press of a single button.
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