{"id":102606,"date":"2019-10-27T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/epic_sues_user_experience_tester_for_leaking_fortnite_chapter_2"},"modified":"2019-10-27T04:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T04:55:00","slug":"epic-sues-user-experience-tester-for-leaking-fortnite-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/27\/epic-sues-user-experience-tester-for-leaking-fortnite-chapter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Sues User Experience Tester For Leaking Fortnite Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/da74477f0d5ed\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/da74477f0d5ed\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/da74477f0d5ed\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3KgmY5NrEzU?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The second chapter of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a><\/strong> wasn&#8217;t exactly a well-kept secret \u2013 with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/fortnite_chapter_2_is_now_live_leaked_trailers_were_indeed_the_real_deal\">leaks<\/a> all over the internet, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Epic Games from taking legal action against one particular individual who allegedly broke a non-disclosure agreement after he revealed information he learned as a user experience tester.<\/p>\n<p>Epic filed the lawsuit at a North Carolina court on Friday, accusing Ronald Sykes (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/invisiblellama9\">@invisiblellama9<\/a>) of spoiling &#8220;surprises&#8221; the developer had planned for the community:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He did so at the expense of Epic and those in the <em>Fortnite<\/em> community who were anxiously awaiting the new season of <em>Fortnite<\/em> only to have some of Epic\u2019s planned surprises spoiled by Sykes\u2019 leaks<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sykes first played this new content in late September. Three days later he told another user on Twitter that he had &#8220;played S11&#8221; (season eleven). He then tweeted from a separate account \u2013 revealing players would be able to swim in the second chapter and went as far as sharing an image of the new map.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Games is now asking for injunctive relief and maximum damages for Skye&#8217;s alleged breach of contract and &#8220;misappropriation&#8221; of trade secrets.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sykes cashed in on what he learned as a user experience tester for Epic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the full lawsuit over at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/432043651\/Epic-Games-leaker-lawsuit#from_embed?campaign=SkimbitLtd&amp;ad_group=66960X1516586X5c541c63c7f2d1e33d238289e1ff83bf&amp;keyword=660149026&amp;source=hp_affiliate&amp;medium=affiliate\">Scribd.com<\/a>, courtesy of Polygon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3KgmY5NrEzU?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] The second chapter of Fortnite wasn&#8217;t exactly a well-kept secret \u2013 with leaks all over the internet, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Epic Games from taking legal action against one particular individual who allegedly broke a non-disclosure agreement after he revealed information he learned as a user experience tester. Epic filed the lawsuit at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}