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by mrep 1764 days ago
> if you think that Epic is going to drop their prices 30% in lockstep with a hypothetical elimination of app store fees, I have a bridge to sell you.

While not 30%, they did drop 20% when switching to their own payment processing [0]. And even if they didn't, more money to them allows them to hire more developers to make their games better for their customers.

[0]: https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/the-fortnite-m...

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I don't see what's stopping them from doing that right now, they're running very fat 43% profit margins currently in their tech sweatshop[1].

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/23/18507750/fortnite-work-cru...