Epic Games confirms they will be suing \u2018Fortnite Live\u2019 festival organizers Epic GamesEpic Games have confirmed that they will be taking legal action against the organizers of a disastrous \u2018Fortnite Live\u2019 festival in the United Kingdom. The event, which was held in Norwich, attracted international media attention over the weekend after conning people into believing that the event would be all about Fortnite \u2013 in order to sell tickets. In actual fact, not only was very little of the festival\u2019s attractions related to the popular battle royale game, but it wasn\u2019t even officially licensed by Epic Games. In an official statement, Epic games have now confirmed that they have started legal proceedings against organizers of the disappointing event. \u201cThe quality of our player experience is incredibly important to us, whether it\u2019s inside the game or at official public events like last year\u2019s Fortnite Pro-Am,\u201d an Epic Games spokesperson told Eurogamer. \u201cEpic Games was not in any way associated with the event that took place in Norwich and we\u2019ve issued a claim against the organisers in the High Court of London.\u201d Read More: Fortnite world record for eliminations in Solo vs Squads smashed by Ghost Gaming pro player – Fortnite Live\u2019s organizer, Exciting Events, reportedly promised to bring the festival back to East Anglia in 2020 despite the backlash. However, the Facebook page for the event has since been deleted and it\u2019s highly unlikely that it will take place again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epic Games confirms they will be suing \u2018Fortnite Live\u2019 festival organizers Epic GamesEpic Games have confirmed that they will be taking legal action against the organizers of a disastrous \u2018Fortnite Live\u2019 festival in the United Kingdom. The event, which was held in Norwich, attracted international media attention over the weekend after conning people into believing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}