Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by loktarogar on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:34PM
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Fortnite is all DLC. All their money is in people buying cosmetics. I was involved in the Fortnite space for a while and on my website, just showing people the cosmetics available was a massive profit maker for me.
And since some people (of the younger variety) can't get a PC to game on, but do have a mobile device, cutting themselves off to that profit defeats some of the financial incentive to be on that platform.
Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by hinkley on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:03PM
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> Fortnite is all DLC.
Ah, I forgot that bit. So Epic wants to list their products on the App Store and pay Apple $299 a year while they're earning millions off of one game.
As an Apple shareholder, I have to ask: what are they putting in the water over at Epic?
The only charitable explanation I have is that they don't want to put it on the App Store at all, but they aren't allowed to do that.
Re:Apple countersues Epic, seeks punitive damages
by loktarogar on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:59PM
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> The only charitable explanation I have is that they don't want to put it on the App Store at all, but they aren't allowed to do that.
That's exactly right - they want to be able to install their own EPIC Games store that they can manage and extract 10-15% ish of the sales.
If the iOS version was just an appetizer, then you wouldn't be pushing the volume of DLC that make the Apple tax so apparently onerous for them. If you switch to desktop then your purchases are pure profit for them. If not they still make a few bucks.