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Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

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Re: Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

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Post by MaximumMadness »

Apple is truly doing themselves a disservice here, if Epic wins this battle Apple will undoubtedly be painted as the bad guy, and other major companies will smell blood in the water when it comes taking down a competitor.

Case in point; Tinder, Microsoft, Facebook, Spotify have all openly backed Epic and started to call attention to features that are impacted by this 30% fee. Status quo isn't going to cut it, and it would be in Apple's best interest to make a small concession to look like they're not so evil.

Re: Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

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Post by mrtksn »

system2 wrote: post #2

I wish every damn micro transaction app gets removed one day. Of course no one will do it but I simply hate everything about these apps forcing parents to pay small fees for stupid pixels because their kids begs them to do it. Sorry, nothing else new to add to the topic, just venting and have absolutely no sympathy to apps tricking kids to spend money on tiny cellphone games. My niece begged her mother to buy a roblo…

> I wish every damn micro transaction app gets removed one day.

What’s the alternative? I’m in love with the micro transactions model because the alternative is experience destroyed by ads or high upfront fees.

On the games I play I rarely buy anything, don’t see ads but their business is healthy and the games are fantastic and regularly updated with new content.

I casually play Asphalt 9, SimCity BuildIt and PUBG, probably have hundreds if not thousands of hours on each and spent probably less than $20 till now. If that’s not a great deal, I don’t know what is.

I also bought games like Monument Valley or Limbo and similar. While the experience is also top notch, the upfront payment feels steep and the developers don’t update the games so the play time is considerably less.

Re: Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

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Post by cnst »

umvi wrote: post #14

Super glad I cut all ties with Apple a few years back. They make great products for my parents, but they are increasingly hostile toward developers and tech savvy users. I made a free mobile game that's in both the iOS and Play store, and after I realized the $99 fee is not just a one time fee but a recurring fee to keep the app in the store, well of course I let my developer account lapse. I'm not a charity, and it'…

The sad part is all the users who think that not providing the folks who own the physical instances of hardware the choice to install software from any location, is great for the end user.

This option is present in Android. And you can use it at any time. Is it often that the option is used? Absolutely not, I've never even used it myself. But I still think it's great that it's available, and, if need be, I can easily install any app I want from any source, even if Google doesn't approve of such app or such source.

Re: Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

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Post by pjmlp »

MaximumMadness wrote: post #21

Apple is truly doing themselves a disservice here, if Epic wins this battle Apple will undoubtedly be painted as the bad guy, and other major companies will smell blood in the water when it comes taking down a competitor. Case in point; Tinder, Microsoft, Facebook, Spotify have all openly backed Epic and started to call attention to features that are impacted by this 30% fee. Status quo isn't going to cut it, and it…

Microsoft is playing politics, they act just like Apple on XBox.

Re: Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

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Post by TheNorthman »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #10
makecheck wrote: post #3

Of all the things about this, the fact that the Fortnite competitor PUBG is now being “featured” by Apple just ticks me off so much. Talk about being petty. Are there school-aged children running the App Store now (or the executive suite?). I realize Apple has the right to decide who they feature but come on . Being featured is important , it’s a big deal and it can make a serious difference to any developer’s income…

The irony here is that PUBG is made with the Unreal Engine, which they're being forced by a judge not to cut off from their platform, and Epic still gets 5% of all revenue from PUBG.

They're not being forced to do anything, it's a temporary injunction, i.e. just a remedy.

What's noteworthy here is that it's not a preliminary injunction, meaning that Apple might not even have had the chance to defend themselves in court yet.

Re: Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

MBCook wrote: post #15

I gotta say I really thought Epic would blink and comply. I guess I underestimated their resolve. It’s not like their lawsuit wouldn’t continue if they put Fortnite back in the App Store.

Two things:

One: Epic Games is 40% owned by Tencent.[1] I'll reserve my opinion here an suggest others use this as a point of discussion to explore what we believe this might mean.

Two: Media attention is everything in the court of public opinion.

1. Tencent Holdings Ltd is a Chinese multinational conglomerate holding company, founded in 1998, the world's largest video game company, one of the world's most financially valuable companies, one of the world's largest social media companies, and one of the world's largest venture capital firms and investment corporations.

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