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Fortnite
Basic Information
Release Year 2017
Product Type Video games
In Production Yes
Official Website https://www.fortnite.com/


Fortnite is a widely known video game, Where 100 users fight each other via a wide variety of options (guns, knives, NPC's, And powers), All of which you collect throughout an island.

Consumer-impact summary

Market Control

Fortnite is an action and combat Video Game which is highly popular and integrated into the gaming culture[1][2], Fortnite has changed the Free to play consumer market intensely by popularized the feature named Battle passes[3], Battle Passes are seen as predatory they contains multiple psychological practices that are used on the players.[4]


Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

  • User freedom
  • User privacy
  • Business model
  • Market control

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This is a list of all consumer-protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Fortnite category.

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References

  1. Amir, Zara (27 Dec 2024). "The Never-ending Hype of Fortnite". Inside Tech World. Archived from the original on 2025-01-22.
  2. Kumar, Naveen (21 May 2026). "Fortnite Statistics 2026 [Active Player Count & Revenue]". Demangsage. Archived from the original on 2026-05-27.
  3. "Who popularized Battle Pass?". Games Leaning Society. 21 Jun 2023. Archived from the original on 2026-05-29.
  4. Joseph, Daniel (March 2021). "Battle pass capitalism". ResearchGate. Archived from the original on 2023-06-22.