The $2.72 Million Limited Run Games Settlement Has Been Paying $56.39 per Claim Since August 24, 2026 — Because Only 27,864 of 358,383 Class Members Had Accepted Claims When the Judge Signed Off

If a deposit or check labeled with the Limited Run Games case has landed in your account, it is almost certainly real. According to ClaimDepot, which tracks the case, “the settlement administrator began issuing payments in the amount of $56.39 to approved claimants on Aug. 24, 2026.” Every approved claimant gets the same amount: the settlement agreement, quoted in the court’s approval order, gives each class member with an approved claim “a pro rata portion of the Settlement Fund” after administration costs, the fee award and the service awards. There is no tiering by how many games you bought or how many videos you watched.

We could not confirm the payment figure on the official settlement site, LimitedRunGamesSettlement.com, which blocked our automated requests as of October 7, 2026. The number fits the court record, though. By our arithmetic, $2,720,000 minus the $906,666.67 fee award and $5,000 in service awards leaves $1,808,333.33; Kroll had billed $93,219.04 by February 19, 2026 and estimated another $75,000 to $85,000, which leaves roughly $1.63 million to $1.64 million. Divided among the 27,864 accepted claims plus the roughly 600 still under review in February — 28,464 in all — $56.39 a claim comes to about $1.6 million. That is close to the whole net fund, though the final number of approved claims is not public.

Video-privacy settlements usually pay a few dollars a head because millions of people are eligible. This one paid more for a simple reason: few people filed. Kroll was handed a list of “358,383 available names, email addresses, and addresses of potential Settlement Class Members” and reached “98.95%” of them with direct notice by email or postcard. In response, “24,092 Settlement Class Members submitted timely Claim Forms, and 3,772 additional Claim Forms were accepted but untimely. This means a total of 27,864 claims have been accepted,” the order says. That is a claim rate of about 7.8 percent, by our arithmetic. Only seventeen people opted out and nobody objected.

The class is anyone in the United States who accessed the Limited Run Games website or apps and “watched a pre-recorded video or purchased a video game containing a ‘Cut Scene’ between January 1, 2016 and June 20, 2025,” in the words of Kroll’s December 19, 2025 notice. The lawsuit, brought by two customers, alleged that “subscribers’ personally identifiable information (‘PII’) was disclosed to Meta Platforms, Inc. … and others, without consent in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act,” 18 U.S.C. § 2710, through the Meta Pixel and similar tracking code. Limited Run Games denies any wrongdoing, and the court never decided who was right. Beyond the money, the company agreed it “shall not knowingly resume operation of the Meta Pixel, TikTok tracking technologies, Google tracking technologies, or the X pixel” to share what specific users watched, unless it first gets VPPA-compliant consent or the law changes.

Payment comes the way you chose on the claim form. Kroll’s notice said “payments will come by check unless you elect to receive payment electronically by PayPal or Venmo.” If you picked PayPal or Venmo, look for a transfer tied to the email address you gave; claimants had to use “the email address associated with their limitedrungames.com account.” If you asked for a check, it comes by first-class mail.

Cash the check. Under the settlement, each check “will expire and become null and void unless cashed within one hundred eighty (180) days after the date of issuance.” For a check dated August 24, 2026, that is about February 20, 2027, by our count — go by the date printed on your check. Money from uncashed checks does not go back to Limited Run Games. It is “redistributed on a pro rata basis” to everyone who cashed in the first round, but only if each would get “at least $10.00” and a second round is otherwise feasible. The order we read does not say where the money goes if a second round falls below that line.

If you filed but have nothing by now, contact Kroll before you assume the worst. A rejected claim, a PayPal or Venmo account that no longer matches, or a check sent to an old address are the usual causes. Kroll’s contact points are (833) 621-6124 and Carbone v. Limited Run Games Inc., c/o Kroll Settlement Administration LLC, P.O. Box 225391, New York, NY 10150-5931. If you never filed, there is nothing to collect: claims closed on January 20, 2026, and class members who did not opt out are bound by the release.

A real payment in this case comes from Kroll Settlement Administration, the court-appointed administrator, either as a mailed check or through PayPal or Venmo to the address on your claim. It never costs anything to receive. Kroll has no reason to ask you for a fee, a gift card, your full Social Security number or your bank login to release $56.39, and nobody can file a new claim for you now that the deadline has passed. If an email or text pushes you to an unfamiliar link, do not click it. Type LimitedRunGamesSettlement.com into your browser yourself, or call the number above, which appears on Kroll’s official notice.

Two cross-checks help. The amount should be $56.39, not a round number. And the case name on the payment should be Carbone v. Limited Run Games. Limited Run Games is also not the only video-privacy case in circulation; a message about a different company’s settlement is not about this one.

Magistrate Judge James M. Wicks, sitting in Central Islip with the consent of both sides, granted final approval on March 11, 2026, and the clerk entered judgment on March 23. The case had been reassigned to him on January 22, 2026 from District Judge Nusrat J. Choudhury. Class counsel — Gucovschi Rozenshteyn, PLLC and Levi & Korsinsky, LLP — asked for one third of the fund, $906,666.67, against a lodestar of $222,767.50, a multiplier of 4.07. The judge approved it, citing precedent that “it is very common to see 33% contingency fees in cases with funds of less than $10 million.” He also found $7,564.41 in costs reasonable, though the order’s final paragraph lists a single $906,666.67 award “for their fees and expenses.” The two named plaintiffs received $2,500 each. With Kroll’s billed and estimated costs, that accounts for roughly $1.1 million of the $2.72 million, by our arithmetic.

The settlement agreement said payments would be made within 90 days after the Effective Date, the point at which the approval became final and could no longer be appealed. Payments began 166 days after the approval hearing; the documents we read do not give the exact Effective Date. As of October 7, 2026, the court record we reviewed shows no appeal and no further order about distribution.