Australia - Origin gaming platform undertakes to provide refunds to consumers

The world’s third largest publisher and developer of video games, Electronic Arts Inc and related companies, EA Swiss Sàrl and Electronic Arts Proprietary Limited (together, EA), who run the Origin video game distribution platform have provided a court enforceable undertaking to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. In the undertaking, EA acknowledged that representations it made to consumers about their rights to refunds and the application of the Australian Consumer Law (ACL) consumer guarantees were likely to have breached the ACL.

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