I kinda see what you’re saying but again…
Apple isn’t paying Epic anything. The contention here is about Epic’s game (Fornite) ON Apple devices/phones. Apple charges developers 30% of transactions ON its devices. This is what the fight is about.
IF Epic wins, yes, this could affect other platforms… primarily Google’s Play Store would be a prime target if Epic wins. IF Apple wins however… nothing changes. At least for the time being.
Any news i when Crate is expanding to the Epic Games Store?
Path of Exile already did… its a great move to increase userbase and earn some more money, Im sure Crate has been approached already… question is when will they say yes!
Honestly I also think they should look into putting GD on the Epic Store. Wouldn’t hurt I don’t think. Plus they get to avoid any “exclusive” drama since the game has long been out already.
Not sure if they will tho since they might be wary of offending the asshats that like to try to shame devs for being on Epic.
Crate might be anti-Epic Game store company. i dont know, but. well its sad cause i want to buy Grim Dawn at EGS too… Im sure many will… and to think Epic is growing day by day thanks to their aggressive strategies hehe. also today it snagged Rocket League away from Steam (RIP) and anyone who grabs a free copy will get 10 usd coupon xD
Not the case
The Epic v Apple case goes to court this week.
I’m not sure what the outcome might be. After all Epic has it’s own platform so I guess they could sell their mobile games on that too and not bother with Apple and Google. 
lol that’s not how it works medea. Apple and Google (in this case) are mobile phone platforms - iOS for Apple, Android for Google. Almost everybody on this planet with a mobile phone is using a phone that makes use of one… or the other. These are your 2 options.
Epic does not have a mobile phone platform - they must use one or the other, or both, to cater to their mobile users - they can technically avoid using either platforms mobile app stores - and Epic does do this but it’s a pretty big disadvantage not to distribute your app thru these stores because nearly all mobile users tend to expect to be able to access whatever apps and services they need via each platforms respective stores. So not using it can cost a developer eyeballs and money.
In the case of Apple - they have both their store and their phones locked down hardcore - they control everything. I’m not an Apple user so I’m not savvy on how hackable their phones are and if it’s possible to get around using apps not in their store. But I believe that if you aren’t distributing apps via their store users are instead forced to access whatever they need thru a browser (on the phone) instead.
For Google (or rather Android) the OS is much more open and malleable and there are 3rd party stores and other methods easily available to install and use apps not in the primary Google play store.
Still, the cost of not using either platforms store is significant for many reasons - Epic (and I suppose Fortnite) is known and popular enough that people may be willing to use alternate methods to access them on mobile but it still isn’t an ideal situation. But Epic made their bed because they wanted this fight so… guess we’ll see what we see and how it all plays out.
But, this is all about money - and lots of it… hundreds of millions of dollars according to your article, and Epic…
Don’t tell me that Tencent isn’t rich enough to set up its own mobile platform if it wanted to for this. Who does the distribution for them in the Chinese/Asian market?
Tencent has an 18% stake in Epic. While sizable it does not make Tencent… Epic.
Correction: it’s apparently at 40% - however, Sweeney remains firmly in control and isn’t shy about making that clear publicly…
(from Tencent’s Wikipedia)
Also, some Chinese company has been faking their “own” mobile OS - which has been found to be a bunch of horseshit. They basically claimed to be making their own mobile OS but it was found that they had simply grabbed base Android and were trying to play it off as not-Android or some weirdness.
Edit: Found the article - was Huawei - this article was funny as hell, I posted it a while back in our praet chat.
Just going out and making a mobile OS isn’t quite as simple as your flippant comment would like it to be - it isn’t enough to throw money at making a mobile OS, this will not guarantee user adoption. Android and iOS dominate this sector and I mean that quite literally. It will take a miracle for a mobile OS that is neither of these to budge in and grab an appreciable market share. For now they are cemented in place and I suspect they will remain so for a good bit yet.
And anyway, the relationship between Epic and Tencent is purely financial and from what I’ve been able to glean Tencent does not meddle in Epic’s business. It apparently just collects its checks and Epic goes on its merry way.
Here’s a couple articles on the topic:
What happened with the court case? Is it still going on? Haven’t heard of any verdict if it isn’t.
Fortnite banned from Apple’s App store indefinitely.
Bit of a late reply…
…but so far it appears the ruling is a bit of a mixed bag.
