In a stunning display of corporate retribution, Epic Games has sent a clear message to anyone considering cheating in Fortnite. After RepulseGod, real name Morgan Bamford, attempted to cheat their way to victory in a multi-million dollar tournament, Epic successfully sued, received a monetary settlement, banned Bamford for life, and forced him to post a humiliating public apology video (the comments are brutal). Then they gave the money to the gaming charity Child's Play.
Epic released the details of the sordid affair alongside Bamford's apology video. In it, he admits to cheating by sharing his account with a friend to qualify for the FNCS 2023 Global Championship tournament, which had a prize pool of $4 million (thanks, Eurogamer). The firm wrote: "We took legal action against a player who shared their account to unfairly qualify for FNCS. Now they're banned from Fortnite tournaments forever, and their undeserved prize money was donated to charity."
It's honestly satisfying to see, and Epic gave fair warning that it would be making examples of anyone who defied the rules. Let Bamford's fate be an example; the Fortnite makers aren't messing around anymore.
Are you surprised to see Epic come down so hard? Is this the fate that cheaters deserve, especially when competing for real money? Take punitive measures in the comments section below.
[source x.com, via eurogamer.net]
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WOW! Never thought I'd say this but... Good Job Epic!?
That's amazing!
Now imagine if this was a norm the court system would be flooded 😳
I could say "cheaters never prosper", or "they were only cheating themselves", but in this case I will just have a little snigger (laugh).
Good job. Cheaters are awful and the charity is well deserving.
That's what I call a crackdown! Epic has probably hired Nintendo's lawyers.
Watched that video just for the comments. Pure gold 🤣
I'd love to know how they were even caught. IP address tracking by Epic, or did someone grass them in? 😂
This is gonna be unpopular but seems a lesser way to cheat. If I understand it he actually won the tournament fairly he just used someone else to qualify? At least he had the ability. Anyway, still right to be disqualified though.
@Robinsad I actually agree. When I started the article and read the punishment, I assumed he’d found some way to evade anti-cheat and use an aim bot or wall hack.
In this case the game was legitimately being played by someone fair and square at all times.
For me this isn’t the win against cheaters that was implied. Real cheaters still get away with it.
If I lost a game to him or his mate who was playing for him, so what? I wasn’t good enough and another player was better than me.
Not the same as if they beat me by using bot assistance.
Imagine if this happened to call of duty players 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@kevinm360 Almost certainly IP address tracking initially. But if they wanted to prove it further everyone plays a little differently and similar to a digital fingerprint they could analyse the inputs and say the run that got through did not match the other runs by this player. They do this in online chess and other online games to identify cheaters.
More impersonation than cheating. Imagine the other guy played on his own account. He would have won all the same
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