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Rubbing salt in the injury of its current adversary Epic Games , theAppleApp Store is promotingFortnite’sbiggest competitor , PlayerUnknown ’s Battlegrounds , a mean solar day afterFortniteSeason 4 began . Apple is striking back after Epic ’s attempts to practice its massive fanbase to pressure the technical school whale in their ongoing legal engagement .
On August 13th , Epic Games released an update forFortniteon mobile devices that tolerate participant to purchase V - Bucks at a brush aside rate if they purchase them through a raw direct payment method acting , go around Apple and Google ’s automated in - app purchase . This also allowed Epic Games to receive the full amount that participant pay up without giving Apple and Google a 30 percent cut . This update was supply without first being sanction by Apple , resulting inFortnitebeing remove from the App Store for offend its terms of serving . in brief after , Epic Games foretell it had filed a lawsuit against Apple for unfair and anti - militant behavior . Apple then rescind Epic Games ' privilege to update or developnew message for the mobile version ofFortnite , while player who had the secret plan on their phones before its removal from the App Store are still able to playFortniteChapter 2 Season 3 .
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To be fair , it ’s not likeFortniteis suffering in any way from the lack of nomadic players . Fortnitehas consistently been one of the top viewed games on Twitch for the past three years , whilePUBGhas drastically declined in popularity . Epic Games has taken multiple slam at Apple sinceFortnite’sremoval from the App Storeincluding parody merch , a mockery commercial , and a tournament dedicated to the hashtag # FreeFortnite . It only makes sense that Apple would seek to retaliate , but it could have dug a short cryptical than promoting a poorly maintained game with a much smaller player base .
Regardless , it is entertaining to observe two megacorporation fight a very public legal battle while also playing rough in the sandbox . IsEpic Games vsApplea very important case for fluid developer ? No doubt about it . Are the companies also play like children by using their platforms to project shade at one another ? Absolutely . This latest stunt might not be enough to catapultPUBGback to theFortnite - similar levels of success it used to relish , but it ’s for sure good advertising .
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