When you pay for skins, emotes, V-Bucks, or other in-game items in Fortnite or other Epic games, you are buying a revocable license to use them, not permanent ownership, so Epic can remove your access to those items.
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This clause means that money spent on in-game content does not translate to durable ownership rights; Epic retains the legal right to revoke access to items users have paid for, particularly in the event of account suspension or termination.
The provision was renamed from 'Revocable License' to 'License Not Sale' and now explicitly emphasizes the non-ownership aspect with specific language about permissions versus ownership.
View full change record →If your account is suspended or terminated, you may lose access to all In-Game Content you have purchased, with no guaranteed right to a refund, because the terms establish that all purchases are licenses rather than property transfers.
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"The Licensed Products (and In-Game Content) you use are licensed to you, not sold. This means you do not own any Licensed Products or In-Game Content made available to you, but you are granted permission to use them in the form of a license. Epic, its affiliates, and licensors (such as independent developers) own all title, ownership rights, and intellectual property rights, including but not limited to all copyrights, trademark rights, and patent rights, in all elements of Licensed Products made available to you... Revocable (we can take it away).Excerpt from Epic Games's Terms of Service
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The license-not-sale characterization of paid digital goods engages consumer protection frameworks in the EU under the Directive on Digital Content and Digital Services, which confers rights on consumers who pay for digital content …
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This clause means that money spent on in-game content does not translate to durable ownership rights; Epic retains the legal right to revoke access to items users have paid for, particularly in the event of account suspension or termination.
If your account is suspended or terminated, you may lose access to all In-Game Content you have purchased, with no guaranteed right to a refund, because the terms establish that all purchases are licenses rather than property transfers.
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