'Fort Knight' developer Epic Games sued Apple

It turns out that Epic Games, the creator of the world-famous game app '

Epic Games challenged the App Store monopoly. In retaliation, Apple is blocking Fortnite on 1 billion devices. Visit https://t.co/VwLAHlzLap and join the struggle to keep 2020 from becoming '1984'. pic.twitter.com/LSKyXiXQVA

— Fort Knight (@FortniteJP) August 13, 2020

Epic Games implemented a new payment method ' EPIC Direct Payment ' on August 13, 2020 local time. Until now, when purchasing in-game items, payment was made on the App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android, and Epic Games has collected 30% of sales as a commission, but EPIC Direct Payment does not collect fees, so A mechanism that returns a maximum of 20% to users.

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— Fort Knight (@FortniteJP) August 13, 2020

However, Apple has a policy that it does not allow in-app purchases that do not go through the App Store, so we have removed 'Fort Knight' from the App Store because it is a violation of the rules. In response, Epic Games sued for 'fair competition.'

For some time, developers have been complaining about fees for the App Store and Google Play as 'too expensive', and Epic Games did not initially distribute Android version apps on Google Play.

App stores operated by Apple and Google are getting frustrated by application developers if they are taking too much fees-GIGAZINE

Epic Games has released a movie that resembles Apple's old commercial CM that strongly appealed to the Macintosh based on George Orwell's novel '1984' in response to Apple's measures this time. 'Please join us in the fight so that 2020 will not be set to '1984'.'

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In addition, it has been confirmed that 'Fort Knight' was deleted on Google Play following the deletion on the App Store.

・2020/08/14 10:29 Addendum
Epic Games has also filed a lawsuit against Google.

Epic is suing Google over Fortnite's removal from the Google Play Store-The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368363/epic-google-fortnite-lawsuit-antitrust-app-play-store-apple-removal

Case 3:20-cv-05671 Document 1 Filed 08/13/20
(PDF file) https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21759099/file0.243586135368002.pdf