The article said they sponsored streams on Twitch. The only people who would know about that agreement are Shell and the streamer with mandatory #ad mentions as per the FCC.
So at no point was there any community involvement from Epic? They have no idea what’s being promoted on their servers?
Since this game is heavily marketed towards children, that’s a huge fucking oversight on Epics part, to not know what kind of things are being promoted through their game.
Well, no, they would have no idea because that’s way outside their scope.
They made the game and regulate who play it. If someone who plays it obeys the general rules inside the game, Epic has zero say in what someone does outside of it. As long as the person playing it isn’t using the game to advertise to other players in-game, it’s pretty much out of their hands
They could ban them after the fact for the sake of optics but there is no system they could put in place to solve this beyond hiring people to watch Twitch streams and ban accounts who take sponsors they don’t approve of.
It’s not being promoted on their servers, it’s being promoted on Twitch servers, through dealings Twitch would also be unaware of. But I believe they have rules on types of sponsors.
Epic not getting enough flak for being involved.
It happened on Fortnite.
The idea that Epic didn’t know is a joke.
The article said they sponsored streams on Twitch. The only people who would know about that agreement are Shell and the streamer with mandatory #ad mentions as per the FCC.
So at no point was there any community involvement from Epic? They have no idea what’s being promoted on their servers?
Since this game is heavily marketed towards children, that’s a huge fucking oversight on Epics part, to not know what kind of things are being promoted through their game.
Well, no, they would have no idea because that’s way outside their scope.
They made the game and regulate who play it. If someone who plays it obeys the general rules inside the game, Epic has zero say in what someone does outside of it. As long as the person playing it isn’t using the game to advertise to other players in-game, it’s pretty much out of their hands
They could ban them after the fact for the sake of optics but there is no system they could put in place to solve this beyond hiring people to watch Twitch streams and ban accounts who take sponsors they don’t approve of.
It’s not being promoted on their servers, it’s being promoted on Twitch servers, through dealings Twitch would also be unaware of. But I believe they have rules on types of sponsors.
But they’ve partnered with Shell to release a new map? That sounds like a pretty direct involvement…
There would have been hundreds of pages of contracts signed lmao