While commercial giants have used enormous legal resources to inflict a devastating blow on pirated software or network misbehaviours, they have to admit that there is a particular sense of “crime” when such individuals are downplayed in public and not destroyed by their lives. Epic Gomes seems to have turned this into a form of customary discipline. The most recent case is that of a man named Isaac Stroke, who recently publicly confessed to the offence of stealing and selling the Epic account.
Epic took legal action against Stroke in February of this year, accusing him of “controlling the Epic Games account of other players by fraudulent means”, including an attempt to deceive the Epic customer service team. According to Epic, Stroke sold hundreds of stolen accounts through the Telegram channel, profiting “thousands of dollars”. This is a clear violation of Epic ‘ s End-User Licensing Agreement. After months of legal proceedings, Stroke finally made a public apology. “I want to apologize to the Fort Night community because I illegally acquired and sold Epic Gomes accounts belonging to others, and “Strork wrote on platform X,” in violation of Epic. Epic took legal action against me, and I was permanently prohibited from playing Fort Night again, with a payment of an indemnity that Epic would donate to a charity.”
The letter of apology was issued by account number Chucklin Ducklin, but Epic disseminated the matter widely through a press release highlighting the identity of the persons involved, forwarding the letter of apology with an accompanying message reminding the public of the seriousness of the theft of the account.