Cheating ‘Fortnite’ player given lifetime ban from game


Kaye, who has over 600,000 subscribers on his Twitch account and lives in a £12mil (RM63mil) mansion in Los Angeles with is FaZe Clan teammates, has asked the game developer to reconsider his Fortnite ban. — @Jarvis/YouTube

Cheaters never prosper, and that is the hard lesson learned by a diehard British 17-year-old Fortnite fan who has been permanently banned from playing the popular game.

In a tearful video to his two million YouTube channel subscribers, Jarvis Kaye – who reportedly has amassed over £2mil (RM10.5mil) professionally playing Fortnite so far – admitted to using an aimbot software to progress in the online game.

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