Action Required: Remove Misleading Terms and Metadata

Coins and terms like “AFK” and “XP” are being used in island thumbnails, titles, and other metadata to mislead players into believing that they can earn or unlock an impossibly high amount of XP. Spoilers, they don’t.

Our rules (1.13) prohibit using misleading content like this in your metadata. You have until February 4 to remove any misleading content like this, including references to AFK, XP, Coin farm, Coin slide or images of Fortnite coins (or similar coins). We will be removing this content from our ecosystem and creators will receive escalating penalties – including impacts to monetization, island removal, and account suspension.

https://www.fortnite.com/news/fortnite-island-creator-rules

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I have a few questions regarding this:

  1. Does this change refer to only maps that have Coins and other said XP aspects in the thumbnail and metadata, or is it any map with any sort of coin room?

  2. Again, about coins; if I were to have a map specifically about collecting coins (but not an AFK XP map), would this be flagged by the system or would it be fine to include it in the thumbnail?
    For example, if this was my thumbnail for my game about collecting coins (but again, not an AFK XP map):


    Would this get my game rejected?

  3. Are there any plans to remove other content like IP from infringing maps? It’s against Creator Rules and it’s taking the spotlight from maps that don’t break rules.

Thanks!

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@HeroTheAxolotl They answered some of these on https://x.com/FNCreate/status/1882444057445613778 already,


2. Found it funny the image you posted is the same as the one in this reply, but yes NO COINS allowed. Even they are changing their images to not include coins.

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But what if the game is based around coins @Mineblo

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Coins are not allowed regardless of what the game is, (You can still have coins INSIDE the game of course just no thumbnail,lobby image etc)

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It’s good to read that; you have quite a bit on your plate to get it in order I would say. Will you also address the issue of IP theft ?

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