{"id":48392,"date":"2019-04-22T20:51:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T03:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=48392"},"modified":"2019-04-22T20:51:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T03:51:21","slug":"so-you-got-banned-from-fortnite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2019\/04\/22\/so-you-got-banned-from-fortnite\/","title":{"rendered":"So, you got banned from Fortnite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even as Fortnite gears up for another <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FortniteGame\/status\/1120326459220987904\">Avengers marketing event<\/a>, Epic Games is dealing with rampant cheating. The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/fortnite\/competitive\/en-US\/news\/competitive-game-integrity\">announced<\/a> over 1,200 bans handed out to cheaters in the first week of the World Cup Online open tournament. Punishments were given to players sharing and boosting accounts, switching regions, teaming up to trade kills, and even using software modifications. In one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2019-04-16-fortnite-cheat-maker-exposes-professional-player-cheating-in-world-cup\">strange case<\/a>, a professional eSports player was tattled on by the person that sold him the cheating app. Cap would give you detention for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Fortnite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/fortnite\/competitive\/en-US\/events\/world-cup\/about\">World Cup Online<\/a> open tournament will continue until June 16th. The finals will occur on the 26th through the 28th of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as Fortnite gears up for another Avengers marketing event, Epic Games is dealing with rampant cheating. 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