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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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1704 points ardit33 | 4 comments | 13 Aug 20 19:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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andreasley ◴[13 Aug 20 20:37 UTC] No.24148645[source]▶
Epic Games has filed a lawsuit [1] and published a Fortnite-themed parody of Apple's "1984" [2] to get some publicity for it.

[1] https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complaint-734589783.pdf

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4

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ulfw ◴[14 Aug 20 03:23 UTC] No.24152926[source]▶
A PR stunt from Epic and everyone's falling for it.
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dmix ◴[14 Aug 20 03:26 UTC] No.24152955[source]▶
My favourite is trying to spin two billion dollar companies fighting over percentages as some “big brother” battle. I don’t remember this part of 1984.
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searchableguy ◴[14 Aug 20 04:02 UTC] No.24153195[source]▶
I feel like epic has more to show off soon. Apple rejected facebook, microsoft and google in the last 2 weeks when they were trying to get their game centres approved.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21357771/apple-cloud-gamin...

https://twitter.com/FacebookGaming/status/129170874980819763...

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ccktlmazeltov ◴[14 Aug 20 04:11 UTC] No.24153267[source]▶
wow, how is that not unfair competition?
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1. Razengan ◴[14 Aug 20 09:03 UTC] No.24155561[source]▶
Does Microsoft allow other stores on the Xbox?

What about Sony and Nintendo?

Does Epic allow people to buy stuff for Fortnite from outside of Fortnite and other companies?

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2. TheHypnotist ◴[14 Aug 20 12:04 UTC] No.24156771[source]▶
I don’t see how that would work per se, but, they do let you process payments for their in game currency via Xbox, Sony, whatever platform.
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3. Razengan ◴[14 Aug 20 12:08 UTC] No.24156815[source]▶
> I don’t see how that would work per se

Same way as the Steam Workshop and other mod-able games.

4. donkeyd ◴[14 Aug 20 12:26 UTC] No.24156977[source]▶
I would say no. However, you can still buy a game on disk and play that. A big argument on the anti-apple side is that there's no way around the app store, which isn't true for most consoles. It will be soon though, with more consoles losing disk drives.