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Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be sufficient to ...
Documents unveiled during the Epic Games v. Apple trial in 2021 showed that in the store's giveaways prior to 2020, Epic paid buyouts to the developers of the free game ranging typically from $100,000 to $1 million, and measured this performance in new users drawn to the storefront on the order of 100,000 new users, with that buyout averaging ...
Apple is set to defend its lucrative App Store in a federal court in California on Monday, as a trial is scheduled to get underway to hear antitrust claims waged by Fortnite developer, Epic Games.
Epic Games is known for games such as ZZT developed by founder Tim Sweeney, various shareware titles including Jazz Jackrabbit and Epic Pinball, the Unreal video game series, which is used as a showcase for its Unreal Engine, the Gears of War series which is now owned by The Coalition and Xbox Game Studios, Infinity Blade, Shadow Complex ...
For its part, Epic Games was ordered to pay Apple's 30% fee on the roughly $12 million in revenue it earned from "Fortnite" between August 2020 and October 2020 when the game maker circumvented ...
A federal judge declared last month that Apple was not a monopolist when issuing the court's decision on California’s Epic Games v. Apple case. On this point, the judge sided with Epic Games ...
In August 2020, Epic Games updated their Fortnite Battle Royale game app on both Apple's App Store and Google's Google Play to include its own storefront that offered a 20% discount on V-Bucks, the in-game currency, if players bought through there rather than through the app stores' storefront, both which take a 30% revenue cut of the sale.
In a Mar. 2 legal letter that Epic published yesterday, Apple referenced this post as partial justification for its decision to cancel the developer account of Epic Games Sweden, which was to ...