Gaming Apple vs Epic
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Based on absolute nothing I’m concluding that Epic were trying to enable situations where kids could run up massive bills without oversight and this is a good thing.
They did it on purpose knowing they will get kicked off. Now Fortnite players will cause a fuss which they wanted, but I’m not sure Apple are the type of company to give in to demands.
Apple are 100% massive cnuts.But Apple are still massive cnuts.
Edit: I will also be buying an iPhone 12.
Why would they want that? Seems like a really stupid thing to do, to de platform yourself from a billion users.
Don't Spotify have the same problem with Apple?
What do epic want? A reduction in the cut Apple take? It’s their App Store so surely they can charge what they want?
Did you see this?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business.../companies&link_location=live-reporting-story
Wankers.
feck sake they’re such twats
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Sadly.
Or iPad. Or MacBook. But yea, they’re still twats.
Cause a huge uproar and massive publicity, which exactly what they got.
They also have MS and Google on their side. Apple refused to allow xcloud on their service as they want each game tested separately, which MS weren’t prepared to do yet they allow services like prime video and Netflix. Weird.
MS should be vary of siding with Epic as like I said it won’t be long before they come after Sony and MS for their 30% cut. They going after the biggest fish first.
Epic games can feck off.
They released that video the second they got banned. Of course they knew what they were doing
Thanks for explaining, I’m not too clued in to what’s going with fortnite, apex,
pubg and their monetisation schemes and to whom they have to pay % of their revenue obviously.
Apple should let them and set their fees at 95%.
An interesting legal battle coming up then it seems!
Can’t wait for the MS store to launch on PS5.
I’m clearly to dense to understand what’s going on. I miss the days where I just fired up my dial up or fired up my PlayStation disc and played it until the optical drive fecking ignited.
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Billion dollar dick measuring contest. Pair of cnuts who have cult-like fans.
Yup. I guess the only thing Epic could argue is that it is "anticompetitive".
I enjoyed Epic‘s take of Apple‘s 1984-ad and it‘ll be interesting to see where this goes. But it‘s a bit rich coming from a company that basically wants a less regulated and more profitable way to suck up as much of our kids pocketmoney as possible.
Two giants fighting over sharing somebody else’s lunch money.
Two giants fighting over sharing somebody else’s lunch money.
DC also sued Valencia when they changed their logo 7 years ago. The cities coat of arms has a bat in its logo and so has Valencia for 100 years.
I generally consider myself to have a decent understanding of a wide range of topics, but man do tech things like this go straight over my head.
That being said, while Apple are definitely cnuts, I cannot in any way or form fathom that Epic games are doing this for any sort of altruistic reasons or to stop any sort of monopoly, but rather to make it easier for them to suck money from kids in micro-transactions in some way or form.
That being said, while Apple are definitely cnuts, I cannot in any way or form fathom that Epic games are doing this for any sort of altruistic reasons or to stop any sort of monopoly, but rather to make it easier for them to suck money from kids in micro-transactions in some way or form.
I just don't get it. Don't get me wrong, Apple are massive cnuts, but then, so are Epic. Their weird obsession with going after these companies who they think take too big a cut from their own fecking store is dumb.
It's Apple's OS and platform which they built from the ground up and got to such a vast number of users by their own virtue, what the feck do Epic expect here?
It's Apple's OS and platform which they built from the ground up and got to such a vast number of users by their own virtue, what the feck do Epic expect here?
This, 100%.
I kind of understand the point that Apple doesn’t develop their own games so them always taking a 30% cut is cheeky but of course Epic are not doing this to be the hero for gaming. They’ve already tried and are doing well in toppling Steam (through offering free games) as the PC store to use and now they want to have a mobile store too. It’s all about making them the gaming giant and their pockets fatter.
And the ios store is nothing without the apps. I'm surprised people actually defend the status quo.
And the apps are nothing without a store that gives them access to hundreds of millions of users.
Of course. But to say that they built up their user base all by themselves is just wrong.
To be fair on Epic that's exactly what they're trying to do though - build a store to sell their own games on. They've done it on PC as that's allowed, but Google and Apple don't allow that on their OS's.
Of course, and the cost of skins in Fortnite is ridiculous as they know kids are addicted to collecting them.
It's billionaire corps vs billionaire corp, nothing they do is for us. That being said, Apple are massive cnuts more so than Epic, so maybe something will come from it to make the store a fairer marketplace.
Though I doubt it, now google is involved there'll be some kind of deal down the line.
Yeah I know. They said the logo could damage their brand. Holy feck, how could anyone think that looks anything like an apple logo — it’s clearly a pear.Wait, what?! Hopefully they'll ask for a huge compensation once they'll win this.
