The war between Epic Games and Apple
continues after the apple company removed the popular game Fortnite from the App Store. Since then, both companies they crossed all kinds of accusations, which resulted in the termination of all Epic development accounts. The most important restriction was on access to the tools necessary to maintain “Unreal Engine”, a software that many game developers license to create better graphics.
This last movement was the one that motivated Microsoft is positioned on the side of Epic, since the decision affects many developers. Thus, this Sunday Microsoft Corp presented a judicial document in which it refers to the fact that your video game business and that of other firms would be affected over Apple’s threat to leave the creator of “Fortnite” out of its developer tools.
“The fact that Epic cannot access Apple’s SDK prevents them from updating and correcting errors in Unreal Engine, affecting the future viability of games that make use of the engine,” they explained from the company.
Specifically, Mycrosoft claimed that the decision would affect at least one of their games, “Forza Street “, which uses the engine for the iOS version.
The beginning of the conflict
It all started more than a week ago when the American video game developer Epic Games sued Apple after the apple company decided to withdraw the popular Fortnite video game from its virtual store, App Store, for “violating the terms of use of the software center for iPhone and iPad”, by implementing its own means of payment.
It happened that with the new methodology imposed by Epic Games, it would prevent the North American firm that Tim Cook directs from charging the 30% commission that is taken for all transactions that occur through the App Store.
“Epic Games made an unfortunate decision. The company decided to use an unauthorized function for payment within the application and for this reason Fortnite was removed from the store “, Apple said in a statement to justify your decision.
The latest Fortnite update for iPhone and iPad offered the option of making a purchase of a virtual object within the application, through the App Store for $ 9.99, a modality authorized by Apple. In turn, there was the direct payment option to Epic Games, with a promotional price of $ 7.99.
For its part, from Epic Games accused that Apple’s move to remove Fortnite from the App Store was another example of their abuse of power to impose unreasonable limits and illegally maintain its monopoly on the payment processing market ”. War is declared and it continues to add new actors.
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