Apple to terminate Epic Games iOS & Mac dev access amid Fortnite lawsuit Epic GamesThe latest salvo by Apple in Epic Games\u2019 lawsuit over the removal of Fortnite from their App Store could end up affecting a ton of developers who rely on the Unreal Engine, as the tech giant prepares to ban Epic\u2019s developer accounts on iOS and Mac at the end of August. On August 13, Epic dropped lawsuits on both Google and Apple for removing Fortnite from their respective app stores, because of Epic\u2019s decision to give players the option to essentially cut out the middle man and pay for V-Bucks directly through the app, rather than include Apple or Google\u2019s stores. Removing the game from the App Store only seems to have been phase one of Apple\u2019s battle plan though, as they\u2019ve informed Epic that they\u2019ll be removing the publisher\u2019s developer accounts and make certain development tools unavailable. On August 17, Epic Games tweeted that they had been informed that \u201con Friday, August 28 Apple will terminate all our developer accounts and cut Epic off from iOS and Mac development tools. We are asking the court to stop this retaliation.\u201d Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store and has informed Epic that on Friday, August 28 Apple will terminate all our developer accounts and cut Epic off from iOS and Mac development tools. We are asking the court to stop this retaliation. Details here: https:\/\/t.co\/3br1EHmyd8 \u2014 Epic Games Newsroom (@EpicNewsroom) August 17, 2020 In the court documents linked to by Epic, they argue that \u201cApple\u2019s actions will irreparably damage Epic\u2019s reputation among Fortnite users and be catastrophic for the future of the separate Unreal Engine business.\u201d Basically Apple will be shutting off Epic\u2019s developer accounts, and the company claims they cannot support Unreal on iOS without dev tools and access, which makes the future of the game engine on all Apple devices very uncertain. \u201cApple specifically stated it would terminate Epic\u2019s access to development tools,\u201d the document states. \u201cIncluding those necessary for Epic to keep offering the world\u2019s most popular graphics engine, the Unreal Engine.\u201d If Epic, who owns and operates the Unreal Engine, are unable to provide regular updates for the engine, developers will most likely start looking for another one that\u2019s able to actually be supported on the iOS store, one of the most popular app vendors on the planet. It remains to be seen if the court will allow Apple to actually ban Epic\u2019s dev accounts and leave Unreal Engine basically dead in the water on iOS, or how this latest twist will affect the overall lawsuit, so stick with Dexerto for all the latest developments on this story as they happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apple to terminate Epic Games iOS & Mac dev access amid Fortnite lawsuit Epic GamesThe latest salvo by Apple in Epic Games\u2019 lawsuit over the removal of Fortnite from their App Store could end up affecting a ton of developers who rely on the Unreal Engine, as the tech giant prepares to ban Epic\u2019s developer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}