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by Bud 2125 days ago
Nitpicking, and I'm not even sure that's correct. Regardless, it's not relevant. What Epic is griping about here is the 30% fee, but they're not acting or speaking in good faith about that. They're pretending that fee is somehow onerous, but they pay that exact same fee to every other platform, too.
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The Epic Games Store takes a 12% commission on all games sales though.

https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/tim-sweeney-epic-games-...

And I'm sure they're not happy about the fees on other platforms, but they can't fight everyone at once.

They can believe that many actors are injust but can be simply choosing their battles. And phones > consoles in terms of impact. They're also less arbitrary about which purchases take a 30% cut or not compared to phones.