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by Pxl_Buzzard 2123 days ago
Tell them what exactly? That's a case of a developer not wanting to continue maintaining an app on the platform. And thankfully WINE and Proton are able to pick up the slack and make the game playable without the support of the devs. Epic still wants to publish Fortnite on iOS, presumably, and in the meantime there isn't a way for them to do so without returning to the 30% cut.
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superkuh 2122 days ago
> developer not wanting to continue maintaining an app on the platform.

This isn't what happened. Psyonix was perfectly happy with it and continued to expand and engage the wider PC gaming and modding community. Then Epic bought them for Rocket League's userbase and things reversed after the period of false assurances that nothing would change.

Epic is just a broken clock being right twice a day. Yes, what they're arguing for is sensible. But pretending that they're doing it to "Secure Freedoms for All" is absurd.

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mikepurvis 2123 days ago
My reading of this is that there's nothing preventing them publishing a "free" Fortnite on iOS and offering only an off-device means of purchasing V-bucks. Basically, the Netflix model.

I think the issue is basically that their telemetry shows most iOS players being kids who may not have access to a computing device other than their phone, and who are on a fixed allowance. So they're not looking to save anyone money; they're looking to capture the other 30% of Timmy's lunch money.

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