I misread that and thought you said kicks the bucket at first lol. Thanks.

I have a visceral hatred of both parties involved, but to be honest, Epic is clearly in the wrong here. They broke the terms of the service agreement, full stop. This is such a blatant strong-arm attempt and is decidedly illegal and really shouldn’t even go to court, no matter how much money is on the line (and I’m…

“Hey Apple, we’d like to use your infrastructure but not pay for it. We think that’s a good idea.”

“Um... no?”

“YOU FASCISTS! TO WAR!”

I hope Epic burns in its own hubris. This doesn’t preclude my general fuck you to Apple, of course, with their anti-consumer policies. But, man... Sweeney, you need to lay off the coke.

Or if there was a game as huge as Fortnite on Epic that had a lot of micro transaction but all made in a store inside the game bypassing the Epic store payment and cut. I’m sure they would be thrilled for the developer and would not even consider for a single second to take any action to get their share.

They did, actually.
Their store sucks, doesn’t have features I rely on, and they have signed multiple exclusivity agreements so that games I want to play aren’t available elsewhere.  *shrug* those developers never saw the money they walked away from.

Great analogy.

In the US, a monopoly itself is not illegal, if you come by it through legitimate means. When Apple first opened the App Store in 2008, they had a de facto monopoly over smart phone app development just because they were first to market.

Great analogy.

As the US Supreme Court ruled in the Microsoft vs US case regarding its antitrust behavior, companies can get off with virtually no punishment if they would just allow the device manufacturers the choice to preinstall competing apps out of the box. This was what Microsoft agreed to and got off unscathed. Microsoft was…

Another epic brainwashed fanboy lol.

Uh, no. Epic is the one that dragged them into it.
Epic, the company that is notoriously anti-consumer in terms of their game store and business practices.
Epic, the company that breached their own contract after being told that no, they couldn’t break it.
Epic, the country that is using the very customers it has abused…

Never said it was. But saying it’s a problem with Apple is disingenuous. When they pull Fortnite from every store with a 30% cut, I’ll believe that they’re “fighting for the little guys.”

Epic threw a tantrum and as a recklessly endangered its relationship with a partner that may end up taking many more companies with it. They wanted to grandstand and now they have to deal with the consequences.

Fair is very subjective though. Apple can easily claim 30% is fair considering they produced the hardware, the software, marketed and distributed their product with such success that iOS has a very healthy market share.

I don’t think it hurts their case. Their terms are there and they want to keep them. There is nothing wrong about that and every platform has it. What it does show is that Epic basically wanted to keep their stuff on iOS but didn’t want to pay Apple, were told no, did it anyway and are now crying about the…

An analogy to help people understand this situation:

Like the kids whipped up about this are paying for those phones...

I spotted the fanboi!

Do I get a prize!?

The Unreal engine isn’t entirely free, and if their rationale for distributing it as such to the point where it becomes a monopoly then the pot is suing the kettle.

Some people need to spend less time on the internet.