Fortnite cracks down on creators scamming players with fake rewards Epic GamesFortnite has announced they are cracking down and issuing bans among other punishments for creators that \u201cscam\u201d other players with fake rewards to get them to support their Creative maps. Ever since Fortnite players were allowed to become partnered creators and earn money through monetization of their own Creative maps, UEFN-developed maps have become highly competitive. This has led to certain creators leaving behind their love for simply creating inventive and fun maps for the community. Instead, a growing trend has been these partnered players exploiting creative maps to drive traffic by any means to try make them popular on Fortnite Discover and rake in the cash. Epic Games has revealed in an official statement to their Twitter\/X account that they are going to be cracking down further on those that go as far as scamming players by violating their policies: \u201cReminder: Tricking players by asking them to like or favorite an island for a fake reward isn\u2019t cool and is a violation of our rules. \u201cThese are scams and we won\u2019t allow it. Creators should remove these elements ASAP to avoid an overall bad time. Our moderation team will be escalating penalties \u2013 including impacts to monetization, removal of islands, and account suspension.\u201d Epic further clarified that simply putting details such as \u201cLike and Favorite to support me\u201d in the descriptions of creator-made maps is still \u201cfine.\u201d But, the actual act of trying to scam or trick players with false promises is against the official Fortnite guidelines. One of Fortnite\u2019s biggest creators SypherPK, who has his own Icon Series skin in the game, praised the changes: \u201cThank you. I think very specific rulings need to be put in place so people know where the line is. Encouraging players to like and favorite vs tricking players to like and favorite.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fortnite cracks down on creators scamming players with fake rewards Epic GamesFortnite has announced they are cracking down and issuing bans among other punishments for creators that \u201cscam\u201d other players with fake rewards to get them to support their Creative maps. Ever since Fortnite players were allowed to become partnered creators and earn money through […]<\/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-72915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72915","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=72915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}