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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by itsdrewmiller on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:35PM (#39619331)
The 5% royalty is for using the unreal engine - they don't enforce that the engine be used in order to appear in their game store, nor do they enforce that unreal engine games can only be sold on their game store.
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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:51PM (#39619605)
The outrageous part of Epic’s model is the global application.
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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by jazzyjackson on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:02PM (#39619802)
What is the alternative to global application?
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Re:Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:13PM (#39619955)
Charging per install through their store. Like Apple does (or used to).
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