Fortnite will return to an American store with iOS and iPhone applications next week after a significant court decision, said the epic boss Tim Sweeney.
Yesterday, April 30, the American Federal District Court in California stated that Apple deliberately violated the judicial order in the Epic Games case against Apple, which required Apple to allow programmers to offer its clients alternative ways to make purchases outside applications.
IN tweetSweeney presented Apple “Peace proposal” with which Epic has been fighting in courts for years. “If Apple extends the free Frameless Frame of Court, around the world, we will return Fortnite to the App Store around the world and drop off current and future court disputes on this topic,” said Sweeney.
In January, IGN informed how Sweeney spent billions of dollars fighting with Apple and Google to the extent that companies run their application stores. Sweeney said Ign at that time that he considered it a long -term investment in the future of Epic and Fortnite, insisting that Epic could afford to keep the fight for decades.
The ongoing fight of Sweeney to restore Fortnite on iPhones and Android phones, while avoiding fees for a store store, is well documented. GIST is: Epic does not want to pay standard 30% fees for revenues from mobile games. Instead, he wants to run Fortnite through his own mobile store, Epic Games Store, without Apple and Google do not bother and devour its profit. In 2020, this dispute ended with Fortnite blocked before release on iOS.
Now in the USA, almost five years later, Fortnite is to finally return.
In another tweetSweeney hailed the court’s ruling: “No fees for internet transactions. Play for Apple.
“15-30% of Apple fees are now as dead here in the United States of America as in Europe in accordance with the Act on digital markets. Illegal here, illegal.”
Apple will now be sent to federal prosecutors for violating the US court order. “Continuous attempts to interfere in Apple competition will not be tolerated,” said US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. “This is an order, not negotiations. There are no things to do when the party deliberately disregard the court order.”
Gonzalez Rogers directed Apple and one of its managers, Alex Roman, vice president of finance, to federal prosecutors regarding the investigation into their proceedings in the case. Roman testified on the steps that Apple took to follow her order, which “was full of incorrect targeting and simply lies,” wrote the judge.
Apple in a statement said: “We definitely do not agree with the decision. We will follow the court’s decision and refer.”
After many expensive legal battles, Epic made significant progress; Before this moment, his victory was mostly limited to Europe through the Act on the region’s digital markets.
In August last year, the Epic Games store was released on iPhones in the European Union and on Android devices around the world with Fortnite, Rocket League Sideswipe and Fall Guys for Mobile. But actually launching Fortnite on mobile devices is a nightmare, with various “terrifying screens”, according to Epic up to 50% of users.
During the expenditure, Epic suffered significant exemptions. In September 2023, the Studio of North Carolina 830 employees, or about 16% of the labor force, will lose his job. In October last year Sweeney insisted that the company be “financially justified” With Fortnite and Epic Games, storing new records in “Co -Voivodeship and Success.”
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Wesley is the British information editor IGN. Find it on Twitter on @św100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpole@ign.com or confidentially at spine@proton.me.
