Epic Games pays virtual money in ‘loot box’ settlement

Epic Games is settling a lawsuit, over loot boxes in Fornite, by paying gamers about RM32 worth of its virtual money. — Dreamstime/TNS

Fortnite-maker Epic Games on Feb 22 put out word it is paying the equivalent of about US$8 (RM32.33) worth of its virtual money to some players to settle a lawsuit over so-called random-item “loot boxes”.

The Fortnite maker said it would automatically drop 1,000 V-Bucks into accounts of players who bought Loot Llama pinata-style figures containing in-game items, without knowing what was inside until they had already purchased them.