In Fortnite: Battle Royale, every major innovation is found and leaked in advance by data miners. This annoys the developers at Epic. Therefore, they are now taking a stronger stance against data miners and leakers.
What do data miners do? Data miners read the data in the code of a game using special tools and analyze it for clues about new content. In Fortnite, they are particularly active, as with each new update, often the immediately following features are already embedded in the code in advance.
Typical data mining finds are the next skins from the shop every week after the update. However, every miner aims for the discovery of particularly valuable data treasures, including clues about new modes, upcoming items, or even events, such as the Butterfly event at the end of Halloween.
Epic doesn’t want new features spoiled
Data mining unwanted: Many fans love data mining and eagerly anticipate what’s new in the game each week. Epic, on the other hand, does not take this well. It particularly bothers the developers when carefully guarded secrets, such as planned events, are revealed in advance.
There has already been trouble with leakers in the past. They want to reveal everything, while Epic wants to keep the mystery and excitement as they originally intended.
What Epic is doing against data miners: So far, Epic has banned players who have been negatively affected by data mining and leaking. Since November 15, they have taken a further step. The site FNBRLeaks, known for its particularly spectacular leaks, as well as other well-known leakers have received a warning from Epic.
Leaking is a copyright violation! All videos that show unpublished content from Fortnite are considered violations of copyright. Such violations are harshly punished on YouTube and can quickly lead to the ban of a channel. FNBRLeaks and others can likely only post leaks on their own sites now, not anymore on YouTube.
Epic trolls data miners with false leads: Another step taken by Epic against data mining is the spread of misinformation. This last happened with the leaks on the challenges of week 8 in Season 6.
There, completely incorrect information appeared in the codes from the data miners, showing a challenge list from the past.
Only shortly before the release of the challenges on Thursday were the correct tasks finally leaked. It seems that the battle between developers and data miners is far from over.
