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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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1704 points ardit33 | 5 comments | 13 Aug 20 19:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. ekianjo ◴[14 Aug 20 00:57 UTC] No.24151940[source]▶
Epic is famous for buying exclusive rights for games to make people play on their store. I hope they like eating their own food now.
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2. EugeneOZ ◴[14 Aug 20 01:17 UTC] No.24152063[source]▶
Heh, game publishers are responsible for their decisions, not some "cruel" Epic who seduced little foolish publishers.
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3. partiallypro ◴[14 Aug 20 02:02 UTC] No.24152350[source]▶
That's not right...but imagine that...but every app and mobile game in the world. That's Apple. It's different.
4. ekianjo ◴[14 Aug 20 02:46 UTC] No.24152648[source]▶
Epic is not a virtuous actor since it basically promotes exclusivity - we have seen that for a number of games, and more recently with Rocket League.

Steam, for example, does no do that: you can sell your game on Steam and outside of Steam at the same time and Valve will have no problem with it.

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5. EugeneOZ ◴[14 Aug 20 05:45 UTC] No.24154134{3}[source]▶
Epic store is better because they're less greedy. I purchase new games in Epic just because I know that this way game developers will get a bigger percent of the money I pay.