I’m not even going to pretend I’m not biased. This is just petulant on Epic’s part. The video in question:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4 Invidious (while it’s still up): https://invidio.us/watch?v=euiSHuaw6Q4
And the full story, for those interested: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21366438/apple-fortnite-ios-app-store-violations-epic-payments
Holy fuck, that video is abhorrent. Their fanbase is primarily young teenagers. They’re gonna eat that propaganda up without a doubt in the world.
Sure, Apple’s policy is awful, but no one needs to “#FreeFortnite” after they knowingly violated Apple’s policy in an attempt to make more profit. They certainly weren’t fighting the good fight like they pretend to. If they were, they should’ve sued Apple. Hell, they could still do it now. Instead, they’re lobbing their fanbase at Apple to brew up a shitstorm.
i don’t want to subject myself to this atrocity again, did they actually use the hashtag #FreeFornite?!
Yeah, the video ends with their description of their selfless, heroic transgressions, then they display “#FreeFortnite” below that and finally, the last frame is only that hashtag, white on black, like some sort of depressing video about a suppressed country.
It’s the most manipulative and morally bankrupt garbage I’ve watched in a while.
So ironical of them, from pointing at Apple for being the bad one. Yes, this is pity of Apple of imposing this sort of monopoly, however, Epic Games are especially to blame here because not only the rules are the rules (What did you expect when you’ve published your apps on THEIR services), but also, from being a company partially Tencent owned, you far from calling someone ELSE from contributing to create a ¨1984¨ monopoly when the Chinese government are literally one of the most privacy and liberty offending regimes.
the rules are the rules
Apple’s rules may be illegal. My take is that their App Store guidelines were were tolerable back in the days, but will be considered illegal / anticompetitive due to the relative market domination that iOS has gained.
I agree that Epic is not a likeable company though.
Yeah, I just can’t take any company seriously that makes a 1984-inspired commercial while simultaneously being 40% owned by Tencent, who are arguably one of the closest approximations of Big Brother we have today.
Did you forget about the Snowden leaks already? The US government is much worse than China if we go by facts and not by propaganda.
No, I agree. I’m not saying Tencent is Big Brother, I’m saying they’re one of several Big Brothers we have today. A Band of Big Brothers, if you will.
Well I do like the video
What caused Apple to boot them off of their store?
From the article:
Apple has removed Epic Games’ battle royale game Fortnite from the App Store after the developer on Thursday implemented its own in-app payment system that bypassed Apple’s standard 30 percent fee