Store Called \u2018Epic Loot Games\u2019 Getting Hundreds of Calls from Angry Fortnite Players Who Think it is Epic Games A small shop in a mall in Ohio named \u2018Epic Loot Games\u2019 has apparently been receiving hundreds of calls from angry Fortnite players who mistakenly believe they are calling Epic Games. Of course, Epic Games are the development studio behind the insanely popular battle royale game, and it is just an unfortunate coincidence that this small store has such a similar name. The store has apparently taken calls from hundreds of disgruntled Fortnite players, many of whom proceed to curse and complain to store staff, thinking they are speaking to Epic Games support. \u2018Loot\u2019 is obviously a key part of Fortnite as well, so the name really couldn\u2019t be any more unlucky. Speaking to Kotaku, assistant manager at the store Hunter Davies says he often \u2018plays bartender\u2019 to these angry players, most of whom raging about weapons, mechanics, servers and lag in the game. \u201cA kid between nine and 16 screamed expletives at me: \u2018\u2019 Then he just hung up on me. There are so many calls \u2013 pranks, angry gamers, kids who don\u2019t understand why the support doesn\u2019t have a readily available method of contact. We started telling them to use the website because they can\u2019t actually talk to anyone on the phone.\u201d And that is not all, as some callers are so unhappy about something that they will even demand monetary compensation and refunds for what they deem to be losses caused by the game. \u201cA really upset kid called because he said his mom is taking him to counseling because of his anger issues. He was throwing controllers, cussing people out in the game. I think he got banned. He wanted us to make up for the fact he had to go to a counsellor. I tried to genuinely make him understand we weren\u2019t affiliated, but he either didn\u2019t care or was convinced we were the support team, we were brushing him off and we didn\u2019t want to help him.\u201d Davies also told of a story where a kid had spent money on skins and hadn\u2019t recieved them in game, and called on numerous occasions to complain. \u201cHe kept calling on his mom\u2019s cell phone. His mom eventually picked up the phone and told us to stop calling and harassing her son.\u201d Fortnite players should be made aware, it is not possible to contact the actual Epic Games over the phone, only email correspondence can be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Store Called \u2018Epic Loot Games\u2019 Getting Hundreds of Calls from Angry Fortnite Players Who Think it is Epic Games A small shop in a mall in Ohio named \u2018Epic Loot Games\u2019 has apparently been receiving hundreds of calls from angry Fortnite players who mistakenly believe they are calling Epic Games. Of course, Epic Games are […]<\/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-77123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77123","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=77123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}