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The most recent headline coming from the Epic Games’ blockbuster is with the developing lawsuit between Epic Games and the two big mobile store operators, Apple and Google. The dispute has come through a breach in the terms of service around the payment methods – the publisher decided to introduce a new way for players to pay for the in-game currency, V-Bucks, which in turn had the game quickly removed from both marketplaces. The change saw the currency have a 20% discount applied with a direct payment to Epic, as it stands both Google and Apple take a 30% cut of purchases made within the apps and the introduction of this direct payment took away from that cut, so whilst breaching the terms of service it also obviously goes against interests of both – Apple have much more strict measures here too, such as directly forbidding developers from mentioning external payment sources outside of the marketplace directly.
This change saw the game quickly removed from both marketplaces and the movement of a lawsuit beginning – players can still play the game on their devices for the time being but any future update won’t be accessible until the dispute is settled, and given the history of applications that have made changes that undermine these terms of service, it certainly won’t be Apple that step down here, although Google may be a little more lenient in the matter.
It ultimately all comes down to money, and the lawsuits reflect that – with the base of the lawsuit being that the current measures in place on both marketplaces leading to anti-competitive practice – Epic have stated that they aren’t looking for any special or preferential treatment here and so if it does lose the case then that is pretty much a goodbye to Fortnite on the marketplaces unless there is a willingness to remove the direct payment. If Epic are successful, however, it may change the way in how the marketplaces operator – other game operators will quickly be able to change their own operations to include direct payments and other genres that have typically not been present on the marketplaces such as casinos for example may find representation once they not longer have to cover the 30% cut that both marketplaces take. With recent conversations in congress with these big companies around their apparent monopoly status too, there certainly is a lot of pressure for change.
