You either plan the game or you don't. Nobody is going to buy a new device to play the game if you don't already play the game, and if you already play, you already have it downloaded.
I mentioned this to my kids yesterday-not playing Fortnite myself.
The two that play Fortnite said it isn't surprising because Fortnight is almost dead and no one is playing it anymore.
It seems they are increasingly giving away stuff from inside the game and still no one is interested.
It would explain a lot.
And only an idiot would buy a phone that's not factory reset. If I sell you an iPhone with my AppleID and 2FA connected to a phone that I keep, I can change my password at any time and you are stuck.This is where the stupid part comes into it. Only an idiot would sell a phone that's not factory reset.
No, it keeps running if it is _just_ pulled from the AppStore. You won't be able to put it onto a new iPhone that you buy.I thought that when Apple pulls an app from the App Store then it will no longer launch or run so this makes no sense to me.
Am I wrong?
Please correct me if I am.
Enterprising eBay sellers are hoping people who are desperate to play Fortnite will pay high prices for iPhones with the game installed, and there are currently hundreds of iPhone listings on eBay advertising the Fortnite app as a purchase perk.
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Many of the prices listed are astronomical, ranging from over $1,000 to up to $10,000 (as noted by Business Insider), but there are some devices available that are reasonably priced. Unsurprisingly, few of the iPhones priced at thousands of dollars have bids, as most people don't appear that desperate to play Fortnite on a mobile device at this time.
There's one iPhone 8 with Fortnite installed that has two bids over $4,000, but those are most likely fake bids. An iPhone SE 2020 with Fortnite is currently priced at $345, which is reasonable, and there's an iPhone XS with Fortnite that's going for $233 at the current time. Given the myriad other ways to play Fortnite, most of these eBay sellers likely won't see purchases.
Apple last week pulled Fortnite from the App Store after Fortnite creator Epic Games introduced an option to purchase in-game currency using a direct payment method, skirting Apple's rules surrounding in-app purchases.
Epic Games filed a pre-planned lawsuit after the app was pulled, and the conflict escalated from there. On Monday, Apple sent Epic a letter threatening to terminate all of its developer accounts by August 28, prompting another lawsuit from Epic to attempt to stop that from happening.
Apple has said that it plans to revoke Epic Games' access to the App Store and all app development tools, including those used for the Unreal Engine that Epic Games makes available to third-party developers. In response to Epic's second lawsuit, Apple said that it has no plans to "make an exception" for Epic Games.
Apple has also made it clear that Fortnite can be returned to the App Store as soon as Epic Games agrees to follow Apple's App Store rules and policies, but it's not known if and when Epic might cave. Right now, Fortnite continues to offer the direct payment purchase option for in-game currency that violates Apple's rules. Regardless of whether Epic makes an effort to get Fortnite back into the App Store, the legal battle that has kicked off could span years.
Epic is hoping to recruit a "coalition of Apple critics" to stand with it to fight Apple's App Store policies, which are already under scrutiny as part of an antitrust investigation in the United States.
While the fight between Apple and Epic rages on, Fortnite continues to be playable on any iPhone or iPad that had the game installed before the app was pulled from the App Store, hence all the eBay listings. It is also still available on Android devices (though it was pulled from the Google Play store), Macs, PCs, and consoles from Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.
Article Link: Hundreds of iPhones With Fortnite Installed Flood eBay
are people still using eBay?Finally, a way to spend my unemployment checks! /s
I hope they don’t work it out and anyone that gets upset about it should go get a job.Who's up for bidding?
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I agree it's probably going to start crashing, SAD!
Translated into MacRumors-speak = "enterprising".Scammers scamming scammers.
Enterprising eBay sellers
Agreed. Both sides are silly in this regard.And only an idiot would buy a phone that's not factory reset. If I sell you an iPhone with my AppleID and 2FA connected to a phone that I keep, I can change my password at any time and you are stuck.
It's a pity Epic is a privately held company as it would have been interesting to see how their stock price was doing today compared to Apple's $2T valuation. Who does the market think will win?
That is probably a strength Epic is playing to though, they don't have to look after a stock price and answer to share holders.
Others might not be so keen to side with them from fear of a) investors b) apple.
It’s funny that Apple is threatening to make it so Epic can’t make the Unreal Engine available for Apple products.
60% owned by founder Tim Sweeney, 40% owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent. The change to making money by having a free app and convincing stupid kids to buy useful stuff for real money as in app purchases is due to Tencent.Ahhhh, are they privately held? That is interesting. One thing I've been thinking with this is "why now?" and from Epic's side the obvious answer is: the kids are getting bored of the cash cow and moving onto something else, numbers are down & this is an easy way to increase profit again; if they can take that 30% straight off Apple. But if they aren't a public company, they shouldn't have the impetus to please shareholders with ever increasing profits and they should know the rise and fall of a game by now and should really be expecting the down turn