[PC Gamer} 1741 days after being kicked off iPhones, Fortnite is back on the US App Store
[PC Gamer} 1741 days after being kicked off iPhones, Fortnite is back on the US App Store
reprimanded by the court, which said that the iPhone maker's compliance "strains credulity" and insisted that it immediately stop interfering with out-of-app purchases.
(Image credit: Tim Sweeney) That was good enough for Sweeney, who called for peace. "If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic," said the CEO.Despite insistence from the court that it "will not tolerate further delays," Apple still withheld approval of Epic's Fortnite resubmission, leading to more protestation from Epic until today, when Sweeney finally announced that the game has returned to iOS devices, tweeting "we back fam."Apple and Epic have told the court that they've resolved their differences (for now at least), and Fortnite is once again available in the US App Store. It is also available in Europe on the mobile version of the Epic Games Store, which Epic can operate on iOS in Europe and not the US due to EU regulations. (It's also on another third-party iOS app store called AltStore.)As Epic prepared for its return to the App Store after the court's ruling, it offered players a 20% bonus for making purchases through its payment system rather than Apple's.
Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/1741- ... in-the-us/
(Image credit: Tim Sweeney) That was good enough for Sweeney, who called for peace. "If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic," said the CEO.Despite insistence from the court that it "will not tolerate further delays," Apple still withheld approval of Epic's Fortnite resubmission, leading to more protestation from Epic until today, when Sweeney finally announced that the game has returned to iOS devices, tweeting "we back fam."Apple and Epic have told the court that they've resolved their differences (for now at least), and Fortnite is once again available in the US App Store. It is also available in Europe on the mobile version of the Epic Games Store, which Epic can operate on iOS in Europe and not the US due to EU regulations. (It's also on another third-party iOS app store called AltStore.)As Epic prepared for its return to the App Store after the court's ruling, it offered players a 20% bonus for making purchases through its payment system rather than Apple's. Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/1741- ... in-the-us/
