Epic Games takes unofficial 'Fortnite Live' festival organizer to court
- 5 years ago
NORWICH, ENGLAND — Fortnite pubIisher Epic Games is suing an event management company after they unofficially put together a disastrous festival called 'Fortnite Live', reports The Guardian.
Last Sunday, 2,800 kids and a number of parents paid to attend an epically disappointing 'Fortnite Live' event in Norwich, England and now the real Fornite is taking the event organizers to court.
General tickets to enter the festival cost roughly USD$16 and all-access tickets including special attractions cost USD$26.
What attractions would they have access too?
According to Geek, they could climb a small mountain (something we are pretty sure they could do for free), take archery lessons (four kids at a time only — remember we said there were 2,800 attendees?), crawl through a 'cave' (which was basically a toppled container covered in fake 'vines') and pay to play Fortnite.
Epic has since decided to take legal actions against Exciting Events Limited, the family-run company behind the not-so-exciting Fortnite Live festival.
An Epic Games spokesperson told Eurogamer, "The quality of our player experience is incredibly important to us, whether it's inside the game or at official public events like last year's Fortnite Pro-Am."
Exciting Events Limited has since issued a public apology explaining the mayhem on their website saying, "We hadn't held an event like it before and clearly made mistakes, mainly not expecting every ticket holder to arrive at the same time, which caused long queues and understandable frustration."
Last Sunday, 2,800 kids and a number of parents paid to attend an epically disappointing 'Fortnite Live' event in Norwich, England and now the real Fornite is taking the event organizers to court.
General tickets to enter the festival cost roughly USD$16 and all-access tickets including special attractions cost USD$26.
What attractions would they have access too?
According to Geek, they could climb a small mountain (something we are pretty sure they could do for free), take archery lessons (four kids at a time only — remember we said there were 2,800 attendees?), crawl through a 'cave' (which was basically a toppled container covered in fake 'vines') and pay to play Fortnite.
Epic has since decided to take legal actions against Exciting Events Limited, the family-run company behind the not-so-exciting Fortnite Live festival.
An Epic Games spokesperson told Eurogamer, "The quality of our player experience is incredibly important to us, whether it's inside the game or at official public events like last year's Fortnite Pro-Am."
Exciting Events Limited has since issued a public apology explaining the mayhem on their website saying, "We hadn't held an event like it before and clearly made mistakes, mainly not expecting every ticket holder to arrive at the same time, which caused long queues and understandable frustration."