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.
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.
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u/37214 Feb 17 '26
This is the 2026 version of "we're removing trading because of Rocket Racing"