Judging by the image accompanying Epic's announcement tweet, the short is a riff on Apple's famed "1984" commercial for the Apple Macintosh personal computer. Manage cookie settingsĪdditionally, Epic has announced it will be premiering a new short film, titled Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite, in Fortnite's Party Royale mode at 9pm tonight in the UK (4pm ET). This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. And with illuminating lines such as, "But for Apple's restrictions, would-be competing app distributors, such as Epic, could develop and offer iOS-compatible app stores, thereby providing consumers and developers choice beyond Apple's own App Store and injecting healthy competition into the market", they're well worth a read.įortnite Party Royale will premiere a new short: Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite. Within moments of the news breaking, Epic announced it had filed legal papers against Apple. It appears Apple's move didn't come as much of a surprise to Epic either.
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"Subscriptions, in-game currencies, game levels, access to premium content, or unlocking a full version", are listed by way of example.
It's perhaps not a huge surprise to see Apple respond so quickly and decisively Epic's move directly contravenes App Store guidelines, which state ( thanks Mac Rumours) that developers wishing to unlock features or functionality within their apps must must use in-app purchases.
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UPDATE 8.30pm: Following Epic Games' decision to include a direct in-game payment option in the iOS and Android versions of Fortnite in order to circumvent Apple and Google's official in-app purchase mechanisms, Apple has pulled the game from its App Store.
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