Parent Gets Kid’s Fortnite Account Permanently Banned, Shows How Convoluted Account Management Is

A parent accidentally got his kid's account perma-banned, and it's not even an easy thing to accidentally do! Here's what happened and how to avoid it.

[Rikimaru1977]

poor kid must be crying all like now.

[NapalmSanctuary]

Onikage would be proud.

[quenomamen]

If their Forrnite account is life and death for your child then its time you take a hard look at your parenting.

[Skankinruby]

Exactly, as a parent of two boys that's the most pitiful part of this whole article that stood out to me.

[Christopher]

I didn't see life or death, but any gamer would be upset enough to complain about it in a rational manner in a gaming forum if they lost access to everything they worked for in a game. Don't see the kid blowing a gasket here, just a parent having to explain why his kid lost their gear.

[SegaGamer]

"Exactly, as a parent of two boys that's the most pitiful part of this whole article that stood out to me"

Except, it doesn't even say that in the article, so obviously you didn't even read it. He said his kid was devastated, which is normal behaviour for a child. Have you forgotten what it was like to be a kid? You ever broke one of your favourite toys or lost something you love?

[CorndogBurglar]

It doesn't have to be life and death but it's still something they enjoy. My PS4 isn't "life or death" for me but if it suddenly got taken away for life then I would be pretty pissed and upset. As I'm sure you would be in a similar situation.

[Dreamcatcher45]

Good! Kids shouldn't play videogames. Do your homework and get outside.

[Testfire]

You know in many places getting outside may end up with you're kids hanging with the wrong people and getting into trouble. And not everyone has a yard to play in.

[Dreamcatcher45]

That's when parenting comes in.

[goldwyncq]

Everybody's a parenting expert these days.

[joshljr]

Not everybody, just me. Lock them in a basement and provide them with just enough to sustain them. That's how to prepare them for the Trumpocalypse.

[TiredandRetired]

My girl isn't even 2 years old yet and she loves playing Mario Kart 8 on the Switch with me. I hook her up w the motion controlled steering wheel and select auto-gas & she has a blast...even if she's just hitting walls and watching other racers pass her. ;P

She gets plenty of time doing other things, we take her to the park, to the mountain and coast near us. We get together with other parent couples for play sessions and she goes to a nice daycare. I read her stories at night and play with her in her room. I'd say she's balanced.

Who are you to be the final authority on parenting? lol How many kids do you have?

[SegaGamer]

Yeah, I bet you played tons of video games as a kid you hypocrite.

[Dreamcatcher45]

No, I was born 78 so we were actually outside and did stuff besides wasting time over a videogame.

[TiredandRetired]

So what Dreamcatcher? I was born in '80. I first started playing games around 3 years old on the Colecovision & Atari 2600 with my Dad. Built tree forts in the woods with my friends, climbed trees, played at the creek behind our neighborhood. Went on fishing and camping trips with Dad. Was in cub scouts, then boy scouts. Played on a soccer team for a year, then a baseball team for another 3 years. Made honor roll all through grade school. Graduated with high honors, all while playing games.

You know you can do many things and still play games. You raise your kids the way you want though. Mine will enjoy games along with the rest of their lives.

*edit- ahh ok, yea it's apparent you're trying to get a rise out of people. I saw this in your post history on an article from 8 days ago:

A person posted: "Just picked one up for my 6year old son a hour ago at Target. Interesting to see that it came with a physical copy of Spider-Man instead of digital"

To which you responded: "Great dad!"

**I agree with you there at least.

[Dreamcatcher45]

My post wasn't about playing videogames or not. It's how much time you devote into it. I played videogames as a kid as well. But the time you spent on an Atari game vs Fortnite is night and day difference.

English isnt my native tounge, so what I thought in my head didn't translate well on paper.

[TheEnigma313]

Sounds like someone who know nothing about parenting.

[TheOpenWorlder]

You do realize...to have kids...Dreamcatcher45 - you have to come out of your mom's basement first and let go of that stupidity to attract a female, righttttttttttt?

[pietro1212]

Nothing wrong with a kid playing videogams here and there as long as you set boundries.

[InMyOpinion]

Only sh*tty parents would let their kids play sh*tty games like Fortnite.

[ramiuk1]

this is what happened to me and they still wont let me so i had to create a new account and relink it.
my lad tried setting up his epic account and accidentaly unlined my ps4 psn and linked my psn to an email that doesnt exist so i cant verify it to remove it.
17 emails to epic and they refuse to do anything eventhough i have given them every bit of info they have asked for

[DrShoe]

First mistake, the guy is a resetera user... Eew

[xX1NORM1Xx]

I used to have problems all the time when it came to fortnite on pc from the 2 factor code taking half an hour to be emailed to me and not being able to play the free br mode because id brought the game on xbox and logging in said i didnt have permission to play on pc only got fixed when they did the big push for 2 factor log in i guess they were expecting to be able to deal with stuff like this case by case until the game blew up now theyve had to sort their servers and security out.

I have done the exact same thing mispelling an email address when i had to make a new psn but i just registered the mispelled on and switched them thankfully for me it wasn't taken.