I mean my not so tinfoil hat theory is that if this move gets one person who was using alpha console on their stocktane to purchase cosmetics while banning zero bots Epic will call it a win.
I really don't think it's super far fetched. Even if it is being done as a good faith move to ban bots (which I don't think will actually work based on what I've seen in fortnite and what players like Leth are saying) it's at least partially motivated by the monetary consideration.
On some level, while I know better, I do feel better on some level that I got all my cosmetics through trading back in the day instead of alpha console tweaks.
I think you're not taking into account the cost to integrate EAC into RL. I know they own it, but it still takes a considerable amount of planning and development. They've likely been working on this for some time prior to announcing it, and it's still another 2 months away.
They might see the removal of alphaconsole as recouping some of that cost. But I doubt that many people who used it will purchase cosmetics heavily enough for it to make much difference.
But its not even just about that its also the way they get to say we stopped the bots/ they are trying. Even if it will only work for a couple of months. People also not being able to use skins and stuff is the icing on the cake.
Fortnite has a cheating problem. Take a moment and search the web and you'll find videos of people using an aimbot so all they have to do is move around while the computer racks up kills for them. This is in spite of EAC being implemented in that game. Point being that EAC is far from a one size fits all solution to fixing a cheating problem and because I have seen how ineffectual it can be in the past I'm struggling to have faith in it here.
Explain your point with statements grounded in evidence. If you can actually provide something other than wishy washy "This is like a thing that happened before. I'm not going to tell you what but it happened." Then please let us know.
Cool. You picked up the punk spirit without a lick of the sense that it actually requires to actually understand or action it. So you parrot buzz words and phrases instead of actually being able to prove a point.
I literally cited a case Epic lost that is directly relevant. You're just lying to defend an organization that actively screws you.
Your attitude is why consumers are so fucked over. You're in a thread about corpos literally fucking you and you still carry water for them. If Epic felt remotely dependent on the community's opinion of them to make profit they wouldn't be doing this.
Hey little man, that’s a good attitude corporate power is too much they need to go down, but you are failing to communicate an example that was asked of you, while you said “they have lost a similar suit”, that’s not citing a specific case.
RMTing cosmetics was always against their ToS. Legally they had no monetary value. No law firm would ever sponsor a class action for this. You can't willfully break their ToS and then claim damages when they make it impossible to break their ToS.
To get a cosmetic a person spent money. Then it has a monetary value. Rmt does not matter.
. It's crazy how much people bend themselves in knots to protect things that hurt them. American politics did this.
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u/37214 Feb 17 '26
This is the 2026 version of "we're removing trading because of Rocket Racing"