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Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

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Re: Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

loktarogar wrote: post #26
valine wrote: post #15

I don’t care about Fortnite, but I would love to have the option to install alternative apps stores on iOS. This has to be the most dramatic example of “running to the press” to date, which I’m sure Apple loathes. If nothing else it’s entertaining.

More than that. They had all this (the vid, the lawsuit, the social media campaign to mobilise their fans) ready to go, and baited Apple into kicking them off the App Store.

I don't know if the term 'baiting' can be applied to flagrantly violating TOS.

Re: Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

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Post by sushid »

la_oveja wrote: post #17
cloudking wrote: post #13

Apple is providing the platform that enables Epic to distribute their game for FREE to a billion+ users. Why shouldn't they take a cut from the in-app purchase monetization? It costs Apple server hosting, bandwidth, engineering to provide this service. Providing an alternative payment method at a discount is not the answer here, obviously players will choose the cheaper option. If Epic wants more money, maybe they sh…

Epic could distribute the game themselves easily, if you don't remember they have their own videogame store in PC. They do the same on Android.

They cannot on iOS and they stopped doing that on Android.

Re: Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

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Post by siavosh »

I can't put my finger on its validity, but it all resonates the same to me:

- Listening to billionaires arguing with each other about what society should be for the benefit of all since this recession started

&

- Trillions and billions of dollar companies battling it out as if they were the underdog in the public arena for the sympathy of us mere wage earners.

The pervading sense I think from Left to Right is the system is rotten and we're mere spectators being told to root for one unfathomably rich entity vs another unfathomably rich entity. You can almost understand the anarchist, burn it all down meme.

Re: Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

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Post by rched »

valine wrote: post #15

I don’t care about Fortnite, but I would love to have the option to install alternative apps stores on iOS. This has to be the most dramatic example of “running to the press” to date, which I’m sure Apple loathes. If nothing else it’s entertaining.

I'm curious as to why as a user you want alternative app stores? I understand as a developer why you would but it is less obvious to me how it would improve the experience for users.

Re: Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

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Post by jandrese »

valine wrote: post #15

I don’t care about Fortnite, but I would love to have the option to install alternative apps stores on iOS. This has to be the most dramatic example of “running to the press” to date, which I’m sure Apple loathes. If nothing else it’s entertaining.

I bet Epic also sent out news stories to every network to get a jump start on the narrative. They clearly spent a lot of time and effort getting everything ready before pulling the trigger on this. It has been awhile since I've seen such a media blitzkrieg on a contract dispute.

Re: Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

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Post by Pfhreak »

beaner wrote: post #20
cloudking wrote: post #13

Apple is providing the platform that enables Epic to distribute their game for FREE to a billion+ users. Why shouldn't they take a cut from the in-app purchase monetization? It costs Apple server hosting, bandwidth, engineering to provide this service. Providing an alternative payment method at a discount is not the answer here, obviously players will choose the cheaper option. If Epic wants more money, maybe they sh…

> Apple is providing the platform that enables Epic to distribute their game for FREE to a billion+ users. Why shouldn't they take a cut from the in-app purchase monetization? Then they should charge the developer for install costs + profit, not charge for all transactions happening in the game that have nothing to do with Apple and impose no cost on them . That's retarded. It's like a landlord taking 30% of sales fr…

Independent of whether I agree with you, you may want to consider finding a better way to express your disapproval than using people with developmental disabilities as an insult.

Re: Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

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Post by janderson3 »

I find it fascinating that in that ad the schlubs that are sitting there watching the television are Fortnite default skins and not say, replicas of the characters that hold the same position in the original Apple ad. This really supports Dan Olson manufactured discontent assertion[0].

Even if you support them and play their game, if you don't spend money for skins, you're still in Big Brother's audience. The wildest thing is that the Jackboots behind the hammer thrower are approximate replicas of the Apple Ad.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHPNgIihR0

Re: Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

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Post by meheleventyone »

kyleee wrote: post #30
meheleventyone wrote: post #19

I’m not sure weaponising a demographic not known for particularly rational responses to things is that good of an idea.

are you talking about the demographic of "people who play video games"?

No, more the hardcore minority that give people who play videogames (like myself for 30+ years!) a bad name.
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