Fall Guys studio apologizes for bug that caused players to make unintentional purchases

The transition of Fall Guys (opens in new tab) to a free-to-play game has been a major success for Mediatonic and Epic Games, but there have been a couple bumps. Servers struggled (opens in new tab) to deal with a sudden spike in players after the switch, forcing the developers to disable custom lobbies and some parts of the in-game store, and now some players are encountering a bug that’s causing them to unintentionally buy items from the store instead of previewing them.

Dozens of users have reported the problem over the past week in this Reddit thread (opens in new tab), which cites a handful of possible causes for items being “auto purchased” without a confirmation step. This video, for instance, claims to show an item (the Yellow Belly) being immediately purchased when the player attempted to preview it:

source: gamezpot.com