Epic Games have won an intermediate win with Apple to open the app store in the long run, CEO Tim Sweeny has chatted out of the sewing box, which has been invested in the process so far. Compared to the American economic side of the business insider, the “Fortnite” boss announced that the ongoing struggle lawyer and the court’s cost is $ 100 million so far.
Sweeny: “It was worth it”
But it is no longer: Epic Games’ games sold very little by leaving the app store. Sweeni estimates that the total amount of legal dispute “with all extra” is more than one billion dollars. The sale of “Fortnite” alone in the app store alone is said to be $ 300 million. However, the game was still comparatively new at that time and stood in the middle of the promotion of gamers scene.
Despite the huge costs – which would prefer to return from the epic game Apple, if it is legally possible – Sweeni believes that the legal dispute was “fully rewarded”. Therefore, investors remained to a large extent. “They believe in our vision and our ability.” Finally, someone wants to develop “The Metwers Building” and “Fortnite” from a game, with billions of players on an open platform. Apple tries to control the “sales tap” to remove “all benefits”. The epic sports investors will know that, this is why they support the fight.
Epiple’s own app store is cheaper compared to Apple
Sweeni emphasized that the epic games help other developers with their approach and then also benefit from the fact that they were successful. “The epic is one of the few companies in the industry that is deployed in such a way that we really have to fight for everyone. And not a guilty conscience with me.”
In fact, the company tries to implement its own app store under iOS. The latest count in the European Union has a separate epic game store with at least 30 million installations and the game group has now also applied a web shopping option for developers after a partial win in the USA. In addition, they can use the at least platform in sales per year, and is 12 percent commission above this amount. Apple wants to do 15 percent for sale less than one million dollars, later 30 percent.
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