"Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, thinks that automated chatbots can be used to enrich games with auto-generated dialogue. But what he and his company don't like, however, is the end user using bots to bring false life to lifeless server rooms so that user-created maps can earn money even if nobody's actually playing them. Two Michigan-based Fortnite creators, Idris Nahdi and Ayob Nasser, are at the center of a lawsuit filed"
"And they weren't just doing it because they were lonely and wanted thousands of bot friends. Generating engagement on Fortnite maps is akin to printing money, as Fortnite 's "Island Creator" program sees folks earn real cash for making genuinely cool stuff that appeals to genuine people. Create a cool island that attracts loads of players, and Epic will make it worth your while."
"Epic Games alleges that the defendants were intentionally trying to circumvent the program's terms of service, having bots flood their islands "using a cloud gaming service that allows users to play video games, like Fortnite, remotely." If true, it's a computer abuse scheme that went on to earn the defendants tens of thousands of dollars. But Epic eventually caught on, cut them off and ordered the duo to stop playing the game and "destroy all copies of Fortnite" they currently had."
Epic contends two Michigan-based creators allegedly deployed roughly 20,000 bots to falsely inflate engagement on their Fortnite islands to collect payouts from the Island Creator program. Fortnite measures creator earnings by real-player engagement and enforces rules against artificial manipulation and IP violations. Epic alleges the defendants used a cloud gaming service to flood their maps with automated accounts, producing tens of thousands of dollars in ill-gotten gains. Epic cut off the activity, ordered the defendants to stop and destroy copies of the game, and now alleges the conduct deprived legitimate developers of funds and harmed developer relations.
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