One day, he was live-streaming a demo of a Fortnite cheat when Epic issued a takedown. has a YouTube channel with over 8,000 subscribers. was using, but whatever it was, it was giving him a huge leg up in Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode, which pits up to 100 players against each other on a map.Ĭ.R. “A cheat might enable the cheater to see through solid objects, teleport, impersonate another player by ‘spoofing’ that player’s user name, or make moves other players cannot, such as a spin followed by an instant headshot to another player.” It’s not clear what kind of cheat C.R. The lawsuit gives a few examples of what Fortnite cheats can do. (Other defendants have since been identified as minors and also have had their names redacted in filings.) Rogers.Ĭ.R.’s full name has been widely reported in previous media coverage, but it has been redacted in legal proceedings ever since it was discovered he was a minor. Rogers identifies an actual individual, targeting him directly.
Once it had that contact information, it dropped the lawsuit, banned players, sent out settlement letters.
But in that case, the company appeared to be using a lawsuit to identify bot-using players through their PayPal accounts. Does (otherwise known as the Runescape case) went after John Does who were using bots. None of the other cases have gone after mere cheaters themselves, according to Kendra Albert, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School who’s an expert on the law around video games. is being sued for live-streaming himself using a cheat he found online and then linking out to it in the YouTube description box. has ever written a cheat, sold a cheat, or even run a forum that distributes cheats. In fact, it’s different from every other video game cheating lawsuit before it, partly because it dives into a legal gray area that usually passes as normal, allowable conduct (when you’re not being a flagrant jerk about it, anyway).Įpic Games doesn’t claim that defendant C.R. Rogers is a little different from the rest of the cases that were filed alongside it.
For its part, Epic Games - the maker of popular video game Fortnite - launched a slew of lawsuits in October against cheat makers and hosts of forums and channels where cheats are distributed.Įpic Games v. There have been lawsuits over cheating in RuneScape, MapleStory, and most recently, Overwatch. In 2008, Blizzard sued over World of Warcraft bots. There was a lawsuit over a PlayStation “game enhancer” - a console hardware hack - as early as 1999. And nobody likes playing with cheaters.”Įpic isn’t the first games studio that’s sued over cheating. “Defendant is a cheater,” said Epic Games in its October 2017 lawsuit against a 14-year-old boy.
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