Epic Games Apple Pay
Epic games has filed a lawsuit against apple involving apple pay with fortnite stuck in the middle.
Epic games apple pay. The issue stems from a longstanding apple app store rule that states that apps must offer billing through apple and pay them 30 per cent of revenue. Epic games began offering customers a way to directly buy items for fortnite on thursday so as to circumvent the fees. Here is a legal breakdown you can understand. Epic games says apple wants to crush fortnite and its unreal engine.
A scene from epic games freefortnite video. It began with epic games bypassing apple s payment service by allowing direct payments to the cary north carolina based company. Players that choose to. The ultimatum puts.
Apple s rules requiring ios developers to pay a 30 percent commission on in app purchases has just sparked an antitrust legal battle with fortnite developer epic games. On thursday morning epic implemented a new way to purchase v bucks fortnite s in game currency allowing users to bypass apple s payment system for a discount. Within weeks of testifying before congress over allegations of wielding monopoly power to squash competition from developers apple and. We develop cutting edge games and cross platform game engine technology.
The way the app store works is that apple takes a 30 percent. Fortnite removed from apple app store google pay store. Fortnite maker epic says apple s retaliated ferociously to its lawsuit over kicking its hit battle royale game off the app store.