In a statement to Ars Technica, an Apple spokesperson said: “We very disagree with the decision. We will comply with the order of the court and we will appeal.”
An epic return
With the new judicial order, Epic says that it will again submit a version of Fortnite To the iOS App Store in the US in the coming week or so. This new version offers players the option to use standard Apple App Store payments or its own, cheaper “Epic Direct Payment” system to buy in-game currency and items.
That would reflect the system that was appropriate in August 2020 in August 2020, when Epic added alternative payment options to iOS Fortnite Intentional violation of what was then Apple's store policy. Apple removed Fortnite From the iOS App Store hours later, the preparation of a legal battle that finally seems to come to his conclusion.
For those few hours when Epic Direct Payments were available on iOS Fortnite In 2020, Sbeeney said that about 50 percent of customers “decided to give Epic a chance”, an extra step to register and pay via an Epic account on a web page outside the app itself (and 20 percent saved on their purchase in the process). The other about 50 percent of customers decided to pay a higher price in exchange for the convenience of direct payment in the app via the iOS account they had already set up, Sbeeney said. “Consumers made the choice … and it was great to see,” he said.
Seveney spoke with the press on Wednesday evening and said that the new judicial order was a “huge victory for developers” who wanted to offer their own payment service alongside Apple's on iOS devices. “This is what we wanted all the time,” he said. “We think that this achieves the goal we have directed in the US, while there are still some challenges elsewhere in the world.”
While Sweeney said the specific iOS developer account Epic was used to publish Fortnite It was still prohibited in 2020, he added that the company has various other developer accounts that can be used for the new entry, including one that used it to support the Unreal Engine on Apple devices. And while Sbeeney allowed Apple to still “reject Epic of the App Store” randomly, despite the Epic that followed all the rules, “he added that Apple, in the light of the last statement by the court, would now” have to do with various consequences if they did “.
