[STEAM][PRESS]Epic responds to Netherlands fine for ‘unfair commercial practices aimed at children’ in Fortnite

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Fortnite developers Epic Games is appealing against the $1.2 million fines levied by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), which were handed down for using what the investigative body described as “unfair commercial practices” through the in-game store to “exploit children’s ***** of missing out (FOMO).”

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, Epic Games suggested the ACM had made “significant factual errors” in its investigation into the battle royale and further noted that the changes would result in a “poor experience for players” in 

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