Epic brought a dance move to a bazooka fight. Their little video is so hilarious and pathetic in retrospect. They were so fucking smug haha. Great stuff.
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Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
- Thread starter Shard Shinjuku
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He's just going to ignore the fact the updated build breaks Apple's App Store guidelines...
And that's why they are taking them to court for.
Why is it so hard to understand that this is exactly what they were expecting?
Nah. Would be bad. I don't want some mess of bullshit with different launchers.
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Other than just trying to prove damages in the actual lawsuit YEARS FROM NOW, I really don't see what Tim's endgame is here. Fortnight is big, make no mistake, but this is going to permanently damage their cash cow.
Uff forgot about infinity blade... one of the only games that make me feel like wanting access to an iphone etc. (Along with rayman mini recently)
Hoped that would have been ported to android but guess that hope has been lost for a long time now.
Whatever if it affects just epic stuff, hope devs that use UE are still fine.
Hoped that would have been ported to android but guess that hope has been lost for a long time now.
Whatever if it affects just epic stuff, hope devs that use UE are still fine.
Sweeney is such a buffoon. There's no more perfect word for it.
Anyone viewing these antics and thinking that Epic is somehow in the midst of some giant chess game - literally has the mentality of a child.
This is like if someone stuck a gun in their waistband, blew off their own balls, got admitted to the hospital-and then someone else claimed it was all a long game to expose how expensive medical bills are.
Anyone viewing these antics and thinking that Epic is somehow in the midst of some giant chess game - literally has the mentality of a child.
This is like if someone stuck a gun in their waistband, blew off their own balls, got admitted to the hospital-and then someone else claimed it was all a long game to expose how expensive medical bills are.
I just did send 3 different versions, it wasn't spamming....
lol
Besides that, it is kinda funny to see a corporation tweeting about their legal issues.
I just do not understand their "we're so innocent and naive" act. They knew exactly what they were doing every step of the way. They kept playing games by submitting builds they knew would be rejected. They are choosing to use their customers as pawns in a long game that I'm seriously not convinced they have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. It feels so personal at this point, like it's just Sweeney's very own axe to grind more than any other reason.
Sweeney needs to stop posting. He just makes his case harder for his lawyers to litigate.
? Why would they not? Part of it got granted and the whole goal is to appeal every step of the way to legal systems until one agrees Apple needs to be regulated. Apple is already in hot water for antitrust stuff. Epic isn't crazy, they want to seal the deal that's already in the cards.
You can't break the terms of the contract and complain that you're suffering the effects of that breach because the terms themselves are unfair while the lawsuit is going on, that's not how this works.
Fucking exactly. I'm in awe at his stupidity. Get the fuck off Twitter, dummy! His lawyers have to be pulling their hair out.
Oh, it's pretty obvious consoles go away if this happens to them.
I'm suprised he's still doing his twitter shitposting after Apple already tried to use his tweets against him
Someone get the Fall Guys' studio to start working on an IOS version, maybe it will be Fort Nites doom!
lmao come on, Tim. They would be so much better off if he just stops tweeting altogether.
Seems pretty clear cut to me and did you actually real the entire message about why they were modded? Best to msg a mod and not discuss it here regardless.
Some people like Tim simply aren't rational with stuff like this and I have to imagine his position and wealth play a LOT into that as well.
I don't know about "chess game", but Epic absolutely violated Apple's in-app purchases rule knowing it was extremely likely that Apple would respond the way they did - specifically BECAUSE they wanted to take this to court with standing, and hopefully get a watershed ruling that allows Epic to make a ton more money off of mobile games.
As for Sweeney, I suspect he's just blathering about it all on Twitter because he's Tim Sweeney, and that's what Tim does. He's clearly making a ham fisted effort to try and mobilize the fanbase of Fortnite against Apple, to try and force them to acquiesce.
I don't know why anyone is rooting for either side. Epic's motives may be transparently cynical, but Apple aren't the good guys here. I'd welcome a ruling that loosens their iron fisted control over the iOS marketplace, and it's hilarious that users of RESETERA, of all places, are saying "that's what you get when you break the rules, Epic!"
I'm old enough to remember a time when Apple would have criticized a tech company doing what modern Apple does. Especially in the late 90s and early 00s, in the heyday of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish"-era Microsoft.
Both companies are so obscenely rich that I don't care who gets hurt monetarily-but any company that signs a contract, fragrantly breaks the contract, brags about it in public and then cries when they have to face consequences will never receive any pity or support from me.
Could Tencent be the one actually « pulling the strings » and pushing Epic to go against Apple ?
You do realize that they can't be retro-fined as long as they're in line with existing laws, right?
Huh? He flat-out admits it. It's right there in the note.
I don't like him either, but there's no need to make false accusations.
I'm curious as to whether they are just locked out or whether their account has been deleted. The latter might mean even if they are allowed back on the store that it would be on a fresh account and all previous installs of their games are orphaned and can't be updated. You can transfer apps to new accounts but Apple would have to facilitate that in this case.
Can we hope this lawsuit bleeds epics coffers enough so that can't afford to steal more games away from the superior store front Steam?
Seems like Facebook also isn't very keen on Apple's policies:
www.macrumors.com
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Apple's App Store Blocks Innovation and Competition
In a company-wide meeting, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday referred to Apple's App Store as monopolistic and harmful to customers. Apple...
www.macrumors.com
I wondered this at first-like it was a ploy to install their spyware ridden software outside the scope of the App Store-but seeing Sweeney's original emails and his subsequent Twitter followups make me think he's the "mastermind" of this operation-and I use that term ironically. So if that's true-I really wonder what Tencent feels about Sweeney considered he just torpedoed a major revenue stream for them permanently by going off book-and consistently tarnishing the company's image daily.
Seems like Facebook also isn't very keen on Apple's policies:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Apple's App Store Blocks Innovation and Competition
In a company-wide meeting, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday referred to Apple's App Store as monopolistic and harmful to customers. Apple...
I'll be sure to let Facebook know when I'm interested in their opinions on the ethics involved in a global company's vast overreach.
Lol at Sweeney's comment. They chose to terminate their account based on their own terms and conditions that Epic has agreed to and more importantly a judge has made a specific order till the trial is carried out.
Seems like Facebook also isn't very keen on Apple's policies:
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Apple's App Store Blocks Innovation and Competition
In a company-wide meeting, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday referred to Apple's App Store as monopolistic and harmful to customers. Apple...
Zuck finding a way to slam Apple having privacy features, using this as a proxy argument.