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“FORTNITE” Epic Games said that Apple can withstand the game application, but in this union, but in his alliance. denies this.
After the first presentation of Fortnite in the App Store, the supposedly Apple was ignored by Epic Games that the game was blocked in the United States. According to the CEO of the company Tim Suini, Apple also removed it from the European one, despite the fact that it was previously forced to resolve this.
Apple has blocked our Fortnite performance, so we cannot release appendices or to the Epic Games store for iOS in the European Union. Now, unfortunately, Fortnite on iOS will be offline around the world until Apple unlocks it.
& mdash; Fortnite (@Fortnite) May 16, 2025
Epic Games, Tim Suini, did not give further explanation, but now Apple answered Bloomberg's statement.
Apple: We asked Epic Sweden re-re-update the application, without turning on the US App Store store so as not to influence Fortnite in other geography. We have not taken any action to remove a live version of Fortnite from alternative distribution markets in EC https://t.co/qczitrbuwz
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) on May 16, 2025
It seems that this suggests that Apple does not intend to allow Fortnite to an American application store. The developers should indicate in which territories their application should be, and, it would seem, epic games included the United States in its performance.
Apple does not consider why it can or cannot refuse to accept the application in her American store. Epic Games equally did not comment on why they claimed that there was a world ban on Fortnite.
how we got here
judge Ivonn Gonzalez Rogers decided in April 2025, which Apple deliberately tried to work around the court. Therefore, therefore, she imposed more stringent and more specific ones that included, which allows developers to use alternatives to their own processing Apple payments.
Apple attracts this solution, but at the same time it is required to comply. Epic Games subsequently announced that this meant that her game Fortnite would return to the App Store.
Games Company then complained that Apple ignored her performance in the store, despite the fact that these two sides were in discussions.
“We told Apple what we are doing. We told their team in relations with the developers, he said in early May 2025. “I can’t imagine that Apple blocked Fortnite at that moment.”
which will happen in the following
Epic Games was originally thrown out of the apps of applications, because that he purposefully violated his user agreements with Apple. He did this as part of his orchestrated campaign to use the App Store without paying Apple, and this campaign led to many years of legal battle.
it is unclear why the Epic Games believed that Apple should allow third-party payment systems that it could return “Fortnite” to the App Store.
at the same time it is not known why Epic Games does not create a MAC version of the game & mdash; Since Apple has no control over MacOS applications.
