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Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account (www.epicgames.com)

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Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account

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[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 20 points 8 months ago

Apple said one of the reasons they terminated our developer account only a few weeks after approving it was because we publicly criticized their proposed DMA compliance plan. Apple cited this X post from this thread written by Tim Sweeney. Apple is retaliating against Epic for speaking out against Apple’s unfair and illegal practices, just as they’ve done to other developers time and time again.

Epic breached the terms of its agreements with Apple and Google to kick off its lawsuits against them in 2020, and now that Sweeney is openly complaining about Apple's terms for third-party app stores Apple doesn't trust Epic not to breach those too. Seems reasonable.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

How did they breach the contract?

[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

Epic changed the mobile versions of Fortnite to add an option to pay for V-Bucks through their own system, which is against the terms of both Apple's app store and Google's. That got them kicked off of both app stores and then they sued Apple and Google.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Ahh, I didn't quite understand from goggling what exactly the problem was. What else would Epic do, though? I don't think they could have just sued for damages.

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