Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se...
by suby on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:19PM
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What?
It's really quite absurd to wave away every unreal game disappearing from iOS as acceptable because they were all bad games anyway. It's likely the second most popular engine in the industry, there must be thousands of unreal games released on iOS every year.
Good for the ecosystem? How many people could be, through no fault of their own, locked out of an entire platform because of this?
Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se...
by DennisAleynikov on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:24PM
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you do realize Apple Park uses Unreal Engine in its AR map and many Unreal Engine games on iOS are the best in their class.
Metal + the Unreal shaders look wonderful almost 100% of the time
Re:Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on Se...
by nathanvanfleet on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:26PM
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Especially if the alternatives to doing that means that the really large companies get exceptions that others do not. It's actually anti-competitive to have the App Store treating Epic favorably but not some new small company trying to compete.
Fortnite sucks the air out of the room, as much as any #1 media property does to its category.
Besides, making an Unreal Engine game for iOS hardly ever makes sense. Those are always crummy ports.
You could argue Fortnite on mobile devices is itself a crummy port.
Do we need more virtual joystick games? Are we deprived of Battle Royales?
Ask film people whether we’d be better off without Disney, for example.
Listen Epic may be right in some ways, but if Apple just arbitrarily periodically removed the #1 apps from the App Store, I’ve got a surprise for you: it would be healthy for the app ecosystem.