Epic Games is serious about taking legal action against another tester after it leaked secrets about FortniteChapter 2. Lucas Johnston, a game tester from Montreal's Keywords Studios, finds himself in hot water after being held liable for the publication of information which is considered highly confidential. Last month, the company sued game tester, Ronald Sykes, for revealing the new map design and reportedly breaking a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
An article Eurogamer posted on its website indicated that according to court documents, "Johnston supposedly took a screenshot of the new content, and admitted to sending to himself, the said document via email." He claimed, though, that he didn't have any idea "how it ended up online." The documents contained information saying, the tester was discovered during an internal investigation by Keywords Studios, which discovered that Johnston was friends with the one who posted the leak on the official forum of the Fortnite Competition, more than one month before the official launch of Fortnite Chapter 2.
Deprived of the Element of Surprise
The new content's screenshot was posted on Sept. 12, and the day after, Keywords Studios fired Johnston. In relation to this, Epic Games said, what the tester did, deprived the company of the element of surprise. More so, he violated an NDA, and it is currently seeking unspecified damages amounting to more than $85,000.
An internal investigation that Keywords Studios conducted reportedly traced where the image sent to Johnston originally came from. Relatively, the gamer was spotted on a security camera footage while he was taking the screenshot of the supposed Fortnite Chapter 2 secret. Also part of the internal investigation's report was that the poster of the said screenshot had three friends in common with an account associated with the email of Johnston.
Not a Lone Issue on Fortnite Violation
This is not the only issue involving a gamer for violating a Fortnite rule. One of the most recent reports about the popular online game identified teenage Fortnite pro Cody 'Clix Conrod, who received "a 7-day suspension from Twitch" after streaming earlier this week alongside another player Zayn, "who has been permanently banned from the service."
This is the second time this November that a player has been reprimanded for even connecting with Zayn after Khanada, another Fortnite pro, got a suspension for three days last week. Zayn has been permanently banned because, after his suspension for a different violation, he was also caught creating another account, his second, from which he kept on streaming.
