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Re:Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, Epic says in ... by weego on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:17PM (#24253971)
There no one to support here. If Epic was to force some kind of change here, expect Epic Pay in every Unreal game whi h may have benefits in the short term but how long does that ever last?
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Re:Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, Epic says in ... by gpm on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:19PM (#24253990)
> but how long does that ever last?

Forever? Because now there are competing payment providers.

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Re:Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, Epic says in ... by xondono on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:46PM (#24254240)
How are they competing? Either the court rules that what Apple is doing is lawful, and is the single payment provider, or they decide it’s not, and Epic becomes the single payment processing provider for unreal games.

Either way game devs have no choice

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Re:Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, Epic says in ... by gpm on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:53PM (#24254310)
> and Epic becomes the single payment processing provider for unreal games.

This seems like an unjustified assumption that Epic would attempt to leverage any monopoly they had on game engines to create a monopoly on payment processing. They haven't done this on desktop where they (up to legal issues) could, so I don't see why you think they would on IOS.

Moreover, there is competition between game engines and gamedevs are not a captive audience to quite the same extent as consumers are.

Moreover, if epic wins and they attempted this they would have literally established the precedent for Apple to sue them in return.

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Re:Apple is holding the Unreal Engine hostage, Epic says in ... by xondono on Monday August 24, 2020 @08:19AM (#24259870)
> This seems like an unjustified assumption that Epic would attempt to leverage any monopoly they had on game engines to create a monopoly on payment processing.

Why? That’s what they’re selling

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