What Does Epic Games Want from Apple? Read Fortnite's Full Argument

Jamie P., Tech Times 05 September 2020, 06:09 am

The Apple-Epic Games battle continues to get worse every single day. After a series of reports involving the story of the in-app payment system of the game developer, and the tech giant banned the game from its App Store. Epic Games has now asked help from a legal court into forcing Apple to accept their game back. Read the full transcript of the request here.

Apple-Epic Games Update: Fortnite now seeks court help

As Apple versus Epic Games now turned their battle to court, the Fortnite developer company is now seeking to get their position back from the tech giant.

The game company has now filed its preliminary injunction to ask the court to force Apple to allow its game back on the list of the App Store. However, no apologies were made between the said arguments.

Today we asked the Court to stop Apple’s retaliation against Epic for daring to challenge its unlawful restrictions while our antitrust case proceeds. This is a necessary step to free consumers and developers from Apple’s costly, anti-competitive control. https://t.co/r2XxhitjMp — Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) September 5, 2020

Epic's main argument is that the banned game is not just about the developer's reputation in the industry. It speaks volumes to the iOS users that no longer have access to play the widely-popular battle royale Fortnite.

About 350 million registered players on Fortnite, and one-third of this population, which was about 116 million players came from iOS devices.

Since the issue between the two parties, Epic Games said that the daily active users have declined by over 60%.

The Verge reported that Epic Games claims that the company was worried that they "may never see these users again," if the case won't have a successful win towards Fortnite.

The court filing also includes some of the emails of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney that were sent to Apple. It involves the warning of Epic to Apple of not joining their App Store again if the 'injustice' will still be happening. That includes the 'unfair' 30% payment system of the tech giant.

Read the full transcript here.

Epic Games vs. Apple: Quick history

First, Apple removed Fortnite on its list of the App Store. Then, Epic launched an anti-campaign against the tech giant with a hashtag #FreeFortnite with an extremely Apple-offensive parody video named 'Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite.'

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers already was unwilling to issue a restraining order against Apple, as once requested by Epic.

The judge tells the court that Epic may have "strategically chose to breach its agreements with Apple."

On Sept. 28, the court trial between the two parties will finally start. Let's see what will happen during this date.