It is not the first time that the US company takes measures against the filters to publish confidential information.
Working on a video game as media as Fortnite: Battle Royale, which recently premiered Season 1 of the Battle Pass, implies signing a series of documents to preserve the confidentiality of some aspects of the product not yet announced. However, not everyone decides to comply with the rules of the game. Some, such as Ronald Sykes or Lucas Johnston, allegedly opted to break the agreement and filter sensitive information. Therefore, Epic Games has been forced to take legal action against these people.
First it was Sykes, accused of leaking details about the map design; Now it's Johnston's turn, a beta testar who worked at Montreal Keywords Studios and has been singled out as the author of other leaks that have come to light. According to The Canadian Press, the American company denounced the employee before the Quebec courts for allegedly sharing "highly confidential information."
Fired from your company
The defendant allegedly uploaded a capture of the new confidential through his email, although he argues that he sent it to himself. He says he doesn't know how he got published online. The suspicions originated an internal investigation within Keywordds Studios, which ruled that the suspect was a friend of the person who had published the capture in the official Fortnite forum. Next, the company made the decision to fire him on September 13, just one day after the image was published.
Epic Games says that the Johnston leak deprived them of the surprise element when they violated the confidential agreement and allege that the losses for that action amount to more than $ 85,000, which translates into approximately 77,000 euros to the change.
As cheating the thing goes, Epic Games permanently expelled a professional Fortnite player after he used aimbot – an automatic targeting system – to enjoy games in his own streaming. Faze Jarvis pleaded guilty in a video and apologized to all his subscribers.
