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Epic Games Pays Apple $6 Million as Ordered by Court
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Hopefully after coming back to the App Store they can make all that money back. What a battle.
How much did Apple ended up paying to the court?
Expect EPIC to raise the prices of the game
How much did Apple ended up paying to the court?
Expect EPIC to raise the prices of the game
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This is pennies for them.
Tim and Phil can’t decide which skin to buy first while they play it on their Switches!
Apple didn’t pay anything.
Probably not. But every week or so the Epic Games store offers a couple free games, many of them not compatible with macOS, which I download just so they have to pay the developer money.
Sweeney is such a child. Shareholders would be well served to replace him by pressuring the BOD. Simply not CEO Material.
An Example worth sharing ? ... you decide.
Moving forward this is how I see things playing out.
For Epic & ALL third-party App Devs !
This is just one IAP Pricing example:
$3.59 / $5.99 = 40% discount when buying from a third-party website !
Moving forward this is how I see things playing out.
For Epic & ALL third-party App Devs !
This is just one IAP Pricing example:
$3.59 / $5.99 = 40% discount when buying from a third-party website !
Yeah, they more or less admitted they did that to look good at the trial.That's literally what Epic did though...
No, they had to do it through an in-app purchase. I hope the court gets the 30% processing fee 😄
Epic, much like Facebook, is trying to create some sort of moral ground for their stance, but anyone with half a brain can see that its all about taking a bigger "lion's share." If epic really cared about its customers, they would put the app back in, and put the links to sign up on their website. Claiming it's until they can"passing along the savings to consumers" is pretty transparent and petty. Especially since they now have the ability to do exactly what their app was banned for.
Never going to happen, so, again, android is the device for you.
With the Pandemic in 2020 Apple’s total revenue was $274.52 Billion.
Given Days divided by hours, by minutes, then seconds Apple earned
roughly $265,650 USD every 30 seconds. 😏
Hey Epic, why have you intentionally punished MacOS fortnite players by making the new season and updates unavailable despite being easily able to implement your own payment method through the MacOS app which is available on your own external store?
We can forgive the absence of the iOS version given all that is happening with the dispute, but there has never been anything stopping you to continue to support willing and paying customers from playing up-to-date Fortnite on their Mac.
To add insult to injury, MacOS Fortnite players are still welcomed with a #FreeFortnite spiel upon opening the game, pleading for sympathy despite none of what is happening with the Apple dispute having to affect the MacOS version of the game in any way.
EPIC is voluntarily punishing MacOS players unnecessarily just to spite Apple, with complete disregard for player loyalty and fans of the game.
We can forgive the absence of the iOS version given all that is happening with the dispute, but there has never been anything stopping you to continue to support willing and paying customers from playing up-to-date Fortnite on their Mac.
To add insult to injury, MacOS Fortnite players are still welcomed with a #FreeFortnite spiel upon opening the game, pleading for sympathy despite none of what is happening with the Apple dispute having to affect the MacOS version of the game in any way.
EPIC is voluntarily punishing MacOS players unnecessarily just to spite Apple, with complete disregard for player loyalty and fans of the game.
This seems more like Epic trying to use their position to force an even sweeter deal at Apple’s expense. There’s merit in arguing the 30% fee, but I don’t think the courts is the right process. Remove your apps and find a better deal, and use public opinion in your favor. That’s if they even have it, which I’m not sure they do.
Good! It's always refreshing to see self-entitled people and companies NOT get their way 👍
Sweeney also knows that his claim to pass savings on to consumers is unenforceable if he reneges.
Or, in the case of my iPad owning kids, stopped playing altogether. And believe me, they really want to be playing (they just watched yesterday's Live Event). As I have said before, the losers in this are 10 yo kids. Sweeney is the lamest.