Fortnite developer Epic Games wins Australian court battle against Apple and Google

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• Rooki@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A brainrot game with ingame purchases won against megacorps, because they didnt allow the brainrot to have their own brainrot in-game purhases.

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  • dhork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It was never about the games. It’s about who can be the gatekeeper between the game devs and billions of people on the planet. That gatekeeping gig is a genuine racket: they charge 15% to 30% just for the privilege of distributing an app and hosting a bunch of servers for download. Yeah, there’s a lot to that, but is it really worth 30% of the top line? Not even the Credit Card companies, famous for screwing over small merchants, charge that much to process payments.

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    • kalmarin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It was always about the game. What you just described was just their argument to win in court. All Epic cares about is their own profit margins and control over distribution. That the ruling might be a net positive for others is incidental.

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  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The worst person you know just made a great point

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• kowcop@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fortnite has certainly showed them! They won in Australia, and their game that hardly anyone plays anymore is free of the shackles!

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  • simple@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    and their game that hardly anyone plays anymore

    Hate to break it but you only feel that way because you're getting old. Fortnite is still massive for kids and teens, especially since they added a fortnite editor that allows you to make and play game modes ala roblox.

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    • kowcop@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, my daughter broke it to me. I remember my friends (back in the day) telling me the problems they were having getting their kids off it and I hadn’t heard much since… apparently not of my daughters friends is waiting for a catwoman skin to come back

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    hardly anyone plays anymore

    Millions of people still play Fortnite daily. Over a million concurrent on some days.

    activeplayer.io/fortnite/

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sum up Lemmy with one comment

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