by Tdarcos » Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:35 pm
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:54 am
It's also $7.50 on Steam and you avoid supporting the current title holder for biggest piece of shit company in gaming.
Epic has some serious issues. In order to put Fortnite up on the Apple Store for play on iPhone, iPad and other Apple devices, Epic had to agree to pay Apple a 30% surcharge on in-game purchases. Epic didn't like this - who would, seriously? - so with one of their updates, they enabled their own credit card processing, which, as is normal, costs about 3%. Apple found out, didn't like this, and told them to cool it, to disable their own credit card processing code and resume use of Apple Pay at a 30% charge. They said no, as a planned move. Apple removed both Fortnite and Unreal Engine from its store. Epic then sued Apple for a number of issues. Epic blundered here, by shooting itself in the foot. When Apple mandated a 30% charge, that's when Epic should have sued; they made themselves look bad by breaching their contract; they probably would have had a better case if they had allowed Apple to continue to collect and sued. Or refused to contract with Apple and sue over the terms of its license. Epic had a number of good arguments including that Apple has an unlawful monopoly since an apple device that has not been rooted (called "jailbreaking"), unlike Android, you can't "sideload" a program (install outside the Apple Store) the way you can load software on an Android device without having to go through the Google Play Store. The court Sided with Apple over Fortnite and the billing issues,
however, the court ordered Apple to continue to allow Unreal Engine on its store since that did not breach its agreement. Epic tried to leverage Apple - a much larger company - through the huge interest customers have in Fortnite. Worst thing about this is Epic is a large enough company that it had the financial resources to stand up to Apple and its anti-competitive tactics and stand the huge cost of a lawsuit. But they screwed the pooch.
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It's also $7.50 on Steam and you avoid supporting the current title holder for biggest piece of shit company in gaming.
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Epic has some serious issues. In order to put Fortnite up on the Apple Store for play on iPhone, iPad and other Apple devices, Epic had to agree to pay Apple a 30% surcharge on in-game purchases. Epic didn't like this - who would, seriously? - so with one of their updates, they enabled their own credit card processing, which, as is normal, costs about 3%. Apple found out, didn't like this, and told them to cool it, to disable their own credit card processing code and resume use of Apple Pay at a 30% charge. They said no, as a planned move. Apple removed both Fortnite and Unreal Engine from its store. Epic then sued Apple for a number of issues. Epic blundered here, by shooting itself in the foot. When Apple mandated a 30% charge, that's when Epic should have sued; they made themselves look bad by breaching their contract; they probably would have had a better case if they had allowed Apple to continue to collect and sued. Or refused to contract with Apple and sue over the terms of its license. Epic had a number of good arguments including that Apple has an unlawful monopoly since an apple device that has not been rooted (called "jailbreaking"), unlike Android, you can't "sideload" a program (install outside the Apple Store) the way you can load software on an Android device without having to go through the Google Play Store. The court Sided with Apple over Fortnite and the billing issues, [i]however[/i], the court ordered Apple to continue to allow Unreal Engine on its store since that did not breach its agreement. Epic tried to leverage Apple - a much larger company - through the huge interest customers have in Fortnite. Worst thing about this is Epic is a large enough company that it had the financial resources to stand up to Apple and its anti-competitive tactics and stand the huge cost of a lawsuit. But they screwed the pooch.