Epic Games respond to allegations they failed to pay Fortnite pros Epic GamesEpic Games has responded to recent allegations from Fortnite pro players and content creators regarding a failure to pay them tournament winnings and Support-A-Creator earnings, citing \u201ctwo separate issues\u201d that led to the ongoing payment delays on both fronts. Epic came under fire from the Fortnite community again earlier this week after the revelation they had failed to pay numerous pros following DreamHack Anaheim. Morgan \u2018RepulseGod\u2019 Bamford and Evan \u2018Cented\u2019 Barron led the allegations. They revealed Epic owed each of them thousands of dollars worth of prizes, including their share of the DH Anaheim prize purse. Repulse placed fourth at the February event ($12.5k winnings), while Liquid\u2019s Cented placed 40th ($1,750). Soon after, several more pro stars joined the chorus of demands, including Oceanic duos star Overt Punk. He revealed he hadn\u2019t been paid out for FNCS heats, and when he reached out to Epic they rebuffed his initial claims. https:\/\/twitter.com\/Punkkrr\/status\/1273811048928182272 After just under 24 hours of silence, the Fortnite developers reached out to Dexerto\u2019s Fortnite Intel to address the situation. Epic suggested they had encountered \u201cmultiple delays\u201d in the days after Anaheim \u201cdue to additional California state tax withholding.\u201d \u201cAll prizes for DreamHack Anaheim have been sent directly to player bank accounts. These prizes should be deposited in the respective winners\u2019 accounts in the next few days. We apologize for the delay,\u201d they continued. Epic also confirmed a \u201cclerical error\u201d had held up overpayments for some players in online cups, and had required manual correction. After that correction, all payments for winners should be processed \u201cin a more timely manner.\u201d The Fortnite developers also addressed another ongoing financial issue that had arisen at the same time as the missing pro player payments: Support-A-Creator payouts, and a series of scams related to the benefits program. \u201cRegarding Support-A-Creator payouts, there are two issues. The first relates to obstacles as we transition to a new payment system, including bugs. We appreciate Creators who have been patient as we make this transition,\u201d they said. The second issue, Epic continued, was related to \u201ccreators who have violated the terms of the Support-A-Creator program\u201d through actions that scammed or defrauded other Fortnite players. These included \u201cfalse promises\u201d relating to codes. \u201cWhen these accounts are detected or reported, we remove these creators from the program and do not pay out their fraudulent accounts,\u201d Epic said. \u201cWe take these violations seriously, and are looking at additional measures to prevent bad actors from abusing the program, up to and including potential legal action.\u201d While this official statement doesn\u2019t immediately take care of all the payment problems that have been flagged over the past week, it looks like the ball is finally rolling. For now, if you are involved, stay patient \u2014 Epic is finally on the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Epic Games respond to allegations they failed to pay Fortnite pros Epic GamesEpic Games has responded to recent allegations from Fortnite pro players and content creators regarding a failure to pay them tournament winnings and Support-A-Creator earnings, citing \u201ctwo separate issues\u201d that led to the ongoing payment delays on both fronts. Epic came under fire […]<\/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-72113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72113","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=72113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}