What the hell is Epic thinking here? You don't have to buy or use Apple's bullshit. It's a putrid company with horrible products which rarely follow industry standards, but who cares. Just get a different device.
From the above blog post:By the looks of it, Epic knew what the outcome would be with their payment system. They moved pretty fast with those papers that were filed.
As of right now, you can still play Fortnite on iOS. What are the odds that people who already have the game installed can be blocked from playing on iOS?
Because Apple has BLOCKED your ability to update, when Fortnite Chapter 2 - Season 4 releases you will NOT be able to play the new Season on iOS. Make your voice heard with #FreeFortnite
Wrong more like fuck appleLet’s go Apple
getting rid immature trashy multiplayer games one step at a time
This just premiered in Fortnite, along with the #FreeFortnite hashtag.
This spoofs one of Apple's most famous commercials, making them the villain.
This is all absolutely insane.
What the hell is Epic thinking here? You don't have to buy or use Apple's bullshit. It's a putrid company with horrible products which rarely follow industry standards, but who cares. Just get a different device.
This just premiered in Fortnite, along with the #FreeFortnite hashtag.
Damn. There's going to be a lot of pissed off people. I'm not a Fortnite person but I know there are people who have sunk a lot of money into this game.From the above blog post:
Basically - no new installs, and when the game updates you'll not be able to play with the current client.
Enjoy your appstore when there is fuck all to download on it because other stores offer the same app at 50% offTencent Tim getting big mad. The guy built his company and career on ripping off more successful games and genres. I don't want 3rd party stores on my mobile devices.
Funny thing is that many here are shitting on Apple for this, but are more than OK if Sony bans EA Access or prevents Xcloud on PS Store.
Their legal argument for all of this is shaky at best. Their legal documents even kinda read like fan-fiction choice cuts such asI wonder if Epic can even do anything. Is there any legal argument they could use?.
Fast forward to 2020, and Apple has become what it once railed against: the behemoth seeking to control markets, block competition, and stifle innovation. Apple is bigger, more powerful, more entrenched, and more pernicious than the monopolists of yesteryear. At a market cap of nearly $2 trillion, Apple’s size and reach far exceeds that of any technology monopolist in history.
They already won, at least according to themselves. They would never have tried this otherwise.
Some how apple the bad guy. epic is charging you for fake shit in a game...
Why would a platform allow an app on there store if they don't get a cut? Even more for a F2P game since they don't even get a piece of the initial sale.
Why do you even need an app store to install on a computer?
It's not even about allowing it on their app store, it's the fact that their app store is the ONLY method for loading software on your device.Why would a platform allow an app on there store if they don't get a cut? Even more for a F2P game since they don't even get a piece of the initial sale.
I don't think this is their end game
Yeah that pretty much says it all right there.
Assuming that a good portion of those transactions are on iOS, and Apple gets 30% of those, yeah it's safe to assume Apple is going to lose a shit load of money by delisting Fortnite. Whether it's enough money for Apple to care or not...
It's not even about allowing it on their app store, it's the fact that their app store is the ONLY method for loading software on your device.
On Android, Epic Games already has their own "app store alternative" where Epic gets 100% of the profit. Because Android is open and that kind of stuff is allowed.
Exactly. And the fact that this was possible on Android is what finally led them to being able to play nice on the Play Store.Epic made fortnite side loadable for a time to side steep google rules
/threadUnreal Tournament was better.
I'm sorry but Apple and Google are in the wrong here. When I buy a game from Best Buy I'm not continually paying them a fee because I initially purchased through them. If I purchase additional content elsewhere that's none of their concern. Netflix and Spoitfy fall in the same category. After the initial purchase there should be no more recurring payments to apple.
I mean...So it's basically just carefully worded propaganda. The crux of the whole thing revolves around "a series of anti-competitive restraints and monopolistic practices in markets" which are very well defined legal terms and will be difficult for Epic to get any of this to stick.
This I totally believe, but I think rather than the customers changing Apple's minds, I think they're leaning on the current shit going on with Apple in a global sense and going to apply pressure to the courts that wayInstead, they're hoping that their customers will be the ones to help them change Apple's minds, not the courts.
On the contrary, altstore does exist. But is a little involved with setting up.Exactly. And the fact that this was possible on Android is what finally led them to being able to play nice on the Play Store.
No such alternative exists for iOS devices.