Reddit Erupts After Epic Games Belatedly Claws Back "Fraudulent" Fortnite Purchases
Phil Owen
9/5/2025
The Fortnite Battle Royale subreddit caught fire Thursday night as many people reported that they were greeted with a pretty upsetting prompt when they logged into Fortnite, with the game telling them they'd had cosmetic items and/or V-Bucks revoked from their accounts. It was an unusual situation because it happened to so many different people at once, and in some cases removed items that the player had for months. When Epic Games finally commented about the situation on Friday morning, it said the revocations were correct and that there was a bug on Xbox specifically that prevented them from making this fix before now.We've fixed a delay where items that were refunded on Xbox or previously gifted from fraudulent accounts were not immediately removed.As a result, some players may now see a message that their payment was reversed or refunded and see recent items have been removed, even from… — Fortnite Status (@FortniteStatus) September 5, 2025 Update 5 PM PT: Epic later added more context around who has been affected by this action, clarifying that it was only an Xbox issue and is no longer an issue anywhere.The situation sparked dozens of Reddit threads on Thursday night and Friday morning before Epic publicly acknowledged what was going on. There are still others in these threads and in the replies to that tweet claiming innocence, or that they lost items and currency that they purchased legitimately on other platforms like PlayStation or PC. So it's possible that this enforcement sweep has caught more players than it should have.Continue Reading at GameSpot...
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