Nah. Doesn't Sony have a stake in EPIC so I dont see them trying to school them MS or Nintendo either. Not yet anyway.
You don't even need that much..
I know smaller devs who are mad at Apple too but smaller devs literally don't have the money to sue. So I mean, this while just money for epic could help the little guy a ton too
I played earlier today and was able to buy vBucks with a 20% discount. Is that not through direct payment?
And? The whole point of contention here is that Epic was circumventing the app store to create a direct revenue stream outside of the walls of the app store. There are plenty of games on well at least Xbox and PS4 that have subscription fees and purchases that can be done outside of the ecosystem of both of those stores and neither of them care.
Yeah, Epic definitely has far less ground to stand on compared to their Apple lawsuit when Google doesn't ban alternative storefronts on Android.
I think EPIC implemented their store on phones but it went as expected, no one used.
Openness. Apple is locked down. It's horrible. Why I'll never buy another Apple device. Gouge
I disagree, Apple came into an incredibly fractured phone market, created a product people wanted, and thrived. I 100% don't agree with everything they do (I don't think they should be allowed to have services like Apple Music that have an inherent advantage versus Spotify etc) but Microsoft/Intel did some legit scummy things like paying companies not to sell competitors hardware, or making competing apps literally not function or function far worse for no reason.
Yeah that's my first thought. I'm not really into fortnite but have they mentioned google in an in game video yet?
No, the discount is applied but the payment still goes through the platform holder on console.
But what's the reasoning, once a platform is big enough they just have to let everyone use it without paying any money?
Wouldn't this be like Microsoft controlling what software is put onto Windows, and how companies should sell their products?
Do you think Epic would be happy if Apple and Google changed their policies such that any company, which makes less than a certain amount or less than these many installs, pay 20% and other bigger apps or revenue generators pay 30% ?
Oh, I think I got what you were meaning! I was in essence agreeing with what you were intending to say by being the snarky guy making fun of the ones saying that Epic should follow the rules, even when unethical.
Yes.
Bingo. The IAP is the part they are upset about. The full app/game sales makes sense
Then don't use their OS and jailbreak it to do what you want. Simple.
It's painfully obvious that Epic wants special treatment (ie to be on Google Play and the iOS App Store while also not paying Google or Apple a penny) exclusively for themselves.
