Apple removes Fortnite from App Store over dispute of 30% commission -

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

udging by the image above, "MM" is short for million. Not sure why - maybe M*M in Roman numerals?

If that is true..Holy fuck the Store I work in could compete to more in a year (sans Borderlands 3) than The Entire Epic Games store does.

 

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If that is true..Holy fuck the Store I work in could compete to more in a year (sans Borderlands 3) than The Entire Epic Games store does.

I think that chart is daily, or maybe weekly. So unless your store's making ~10mil a week, I'm gonna guess not.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I think that chart is daily, or maybe weekly. So unless your store's making ~10mil a week, I'm gonna guess not.

Okay, my current one doesn't do that.

My old one did though, if you want to live retail hell....work for a big box store near a big college, it makes Black Friday in other stores look absolutely sane and reasonable.

 

[Kane Lives]

If they can prove Sweeney deliberately leaked these documents after they were sealed, he can be found in contempt and fined or even jailed.

I cannot imagine any of the industry's big players are happy with any of Sweeney's stunts right now.

The blowback is going to be Epic .

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I cannot imagine any of the industry's big players are happy with any of Sweeney's stunts right now.

The blowback is going to be Epic .

How much you wanna bet if it looks like he is gonna get caught he runs to china?

 

[The Doom Slayer]

I've read that there's multiple companies who are basically losing their shit that all this stuff is getting exposed publicly and are requesting in real-time that their info gets sealed away. What a clusterfuck.

The judge doesn't seem too impressed by Sweeney from what I've seen, and she already seemed annoyed at him last year because of all the retarded #FreeFortnite campaign theatrics he was doing. It's also funny to see him twist himself in knots trying to explain how phones are different than consoles.

Will be interesting whatever happens but Sweeney's sanctimonious shithead attitude during this whole thing kind of makes me hope he loses.

 

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Epic oopsied.

The problems continued today. On the bright side (for gaming companies anyway), whoever is in charge of releasing documents seems to have slowed down a bit and is waiting to make sure they aren't confidential first, though the judge pointed out right out of the gate that it was pointless to re-seal documents that were already leaked. But now there's a new problem: the court keeps getting surprised by on-the-spot, third-party requests for confidentiality. In one amusing exchange early in the day, a piece of evidence was submitted by Apple with the intent of questioning Sweeney about it. However, proceedings were paused as Epic's lawyers pushed back, saying there was confidential information in the document that Epic's third-party partners didn't want either spoken out loud (where anyone listening on a public line could hear it) or entered into public record.

Apple's lawyer argued back, saying this was the first he'd heard of the issue, and that he just wanted to ask questions about Epic Games' business decisions, prompting Epic to respond that they had "only just been alerted to this issue." It was here that Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers finally lost her patience.

"I have received — I don't know what, ten? — motions from third parties asking me to seal information," she said. "I have not received a request with respect to this document."

Epic's lawyer then responded by naming the third-party that is apparently mentioned in the exhibit and wanted to be redacted: Paradox (most likely Paradox Interactive). It's not clear exactly what their negotiations with Epic were beyond a "third-party deal" or are in relation to this document, which has not yet been released and likely will end up redacted (the line of questioning did not reveal anything further). For all we know, it could just be some secretive number connected to Paradox-published Surviving the Aftermath on the Epic Games Store. But as Apple's lawyer pointed out in exasperation moments later, Epic's lawyer was the one who named the company who didn't want to be named publicly, and if the goal was to keep the public from running with leaks, then this exchange hadn't helped.

It sounds like this is becoming a world-class shitshow. Everybody into the clown car!

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Epic oopsied.

It sounds like this is becoming a world-class shitshow. Everybody into the clown car!

Let me get my keys...Why do we always take my car to the Shitshows...

 

[LawTwitter is Dumb]

Tim Sweeney testifying himself makes this case comparable to Russel Greer imo.

 

[Internet_Loner]

Whoever wins, we lose.

Though I want Apple to bleed through money...cause fuck Apple.

 

[LawTwitter is Dumb]

Whoever wins, we lose.

Though I want Apple to bleed through money...cause fuck Apple.

If it was anyone other then Epic Games and Tim Sweeney doing this lawsuit I would agree.

But Apple is 2 Trillion vs Epics comparably tiny like 28 Billion, they'll never run out of money. I want Epic to bleed money and for Tim to eat his own words. He's such a whiny brat thinking he's entitled to everything for free.

 

[Marissa Moira]

He's such a whiny brat thinking he's entitled to everything for free.

Why would you hate him, he's the epitome of PC Gamers?

 

[LawTwitter is Dumb]

Why would you hate him, he's the epitome of PC Gamers?

He's the epitome of his own user base on his own platform, most people will pay for game if they're good. Sweeneys store is just full of freeloaders and the statistics show that perfectly.

 

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[Takayuki Yagami]

>y'all

omg timmy is a troon, now it all makes sense.
also nice going with "why don't you open it up but still control what gets on there but don't control it enough so other people can on it but it will still be totally safe"

I still can’t stand people doing that. It’s annoying enough when yankees say it at all, but it’s something you should never put to writing.

 

[Drakonnan]

Why would you hate him, he's the epitome of PC Gamers?

But he simp for Sony like all Sony gamers?

 

[The Doom Slayer]

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He really botched the Switch segment.

 

[Terrifik]

Nvidia director of product management Aashish Patel,

talk amazing plans about geforce now before he got fucked gameing industry & had plans for steam intergration & fornite on service

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

Why would you hate him, he's the epitome of PC Gamers?

He brought console tactics to PC(exclusives), which is very cringe. He also bullies other platforms into accepting their products(GOG Galaxy) for people to buy, instead of actually providing better services with his platform.

 

[Terrifik]

Lori Wright
*alot info & alot redacted info

Lori Wright, Microsoft's VP of Xbox business development — Called as a witness by both Apple and Epic to testify on "the Microsoft Store; Xbox video game console business and operations; Xbox cloud gaming; distribution of apps on the App Store.