Fortnite QA Tester Accused of Leaking Season 4 Details Files Defense
By Nicholas Barth ·
A quality assurance (QA) tester for Fortnite that has been accused by Epic Games for leaking details of the meteor strike that began Season 4 to a third party has filed a defense against the lawsuit by Epic Games.
Thomas Hannah was a quality assurance tester for Fortnite Battle Royale and has been accused by Epic Games for leaking details regarding Season 4 of Fortnite, including the true intended target of the meteor that began Season 4 being Dusty Depot and not the highly speculated target of Tilted Towers.
Hannah is accused of providing this Season 4 Fortnite information to a third party, a person named DiMarco, who was responsible for posting the information that was protected under a non-disclosure-agreement signed by Thomas Hannah to the official Fortnite Battle Royale subreddit on April 27th.
Epic Games has filed a lawsuit against Hannah for breaking the NDA he had signed with the developer that the developer claims has caused "irreparable injury" by disclosing the large reveal of the Fortnite meteor's true target being the destruction of Dusty Depot and its following transformation into the current location of Dusty Divot.
However, Hannah has field a defense against the lawsuit from Epic Games stating that his disclosure of the Fortnite Season 4 meteor details to DiMarco was a private conversation, and he had no control over what DiMarco did with the information afterwards, and that he had no intention of having the information spread online.
Unfortunately for Hannah, the fact that he had disclosed any of this information to a third party confirms that the QA tester had in fact broke the NDA that he had signed with Epic Games.
You can read the entire reply from Hannah the defendant below.
Thomas Hannah reply to Epic Games complaint June 21, 2018. by Polygondotcom on Scribd
As many members of the community can remember, the mystery surrounding the meteor that had been spotted in the skys of the popular battle royale game soon became on of the most discussed topics in the world of video games, as many fan theories began to make their way around of it potentially hitting the map and causing major destruction to what many believed what be the controversial location of Tilted Towers.
Epic Games was able to use this massive interest to help in building anticipation for the beginning of Season 4 marked by the landing of the meteor and its destruction of Dusty Depot through various means, such as smaller meteors landing on the map, and messages placed around the landscape of Fortnite.
(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)