“Cheaters are permanently banned across all Epic products. “We don’t want to tip our hand by talking in-depth about how we combat cheating. Much credit goes to YouTuber Coffezilla, who has been covering the story for the past several weeks and has worked to document much of the tweets that those involved have been intent on scrubbing from the internet. While FaZe Jarvis can claim 'it was just a prank, bro,' Epic Games does not take kindly to clout chasers regardless of their status, as it solidified in a recent rule change. FaZe Jarvis was one of four FaZe members that appeared in a promotional video for Save the Kids Token. “We take cheating very seriously on both a legal and game development front,” Epic Games says. After FaZe Jarvis was seemingly banned from Fortnite for a second time last week, the controversial streamer revealed that his return to Fortnite was all an elaborate prank designed to gain the streamer some clout. This money is on top of the millions of dollars Jarvis has earned playing online games.įortnite, a Hunger Games-style online shooter where competitors aim to be the last person standing, explicitly forbids aimbots.

“A safe guess is between the two figures $US25,000 and $US36,000 ($A36,000 and $A52,000),” Marketing and talent agency The Fifth told The Sun.īut they added: “This could be way higher, closer to $US50,000 ($A72,000), however we don’t have access to things like video retention, geography, quality of viewers etc.” Camera Icon Fortnite is a Hunger Games-style online shooter where competitors aim to be the last person standing. The video has received more than 335,000 likes.īecause YouTube channel owners receive advertising revenue from each video view and Jarvis has two million subscribers, his apology has made up to $52,00. Fortnite player FaZe Jarvis announced in an apology video posted on Sunday that he has received the ban after using aimbots, a type of in-game cheat that allows players to automatically aim at. Jarvis, 17, who was a member of the e-sports team FaZe clan, posted an emotional video on his YouTube channel Sunday explaining to his nearly 2 million subscribers why he received the ban.

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