Gamers may have noticed a recent email about instructions for getting their share of a legal settlement with GameStop. While people are right to be suspicious about emails promising money, this settlement is legitimate. And if you’ve purchased something online from GameStop in the last five years, then the company may owe you some money.
Following a class-action settlement filed earlier this year, GameStop has put forth $4.5 million to resolve the issue of whether the company improperly disclosed customers’ personal information to Facebook via the Facebook Tracking Pixel (now Meta Pixel) without their permission.
Who can file a claim for their share of the settlement?
There are two primary criteria for getting a share this settlement. Recipients are only eligible if they purchased a video game from GameStop’s site between August 18, 2020 and April 17, 2025. Players also need to have maintained a public Facebook profile with their real names at the time the purchase was made.