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Congrats! 

Or for the short version:

“Two pairs of khaki’s called Tim, are having a playground slap-fight over who gets slightly more of your money”

Aye, but if Tim wins then, by analogy, Sony would have to take down its walled garden for digital sales. Whereas if Tim wins then everything stays as it is. Life would be interesting if Tim wins, but I think that Tim has the better legal argument. 

Interesting summary so far. Ramifications will be far-reaching depending on the outcome.

Hey, if it motivates Xbox to make high-quality games then all the better, might get a Series X sooner than later

Someone is going to be fired.

@MidnightDragon nah, all these documents are exhibits in the Apple v Epic litigation. They’re more public because they’re being referred to in court. 

@Dreakon13 See the top corner - Epic Inc -v- Apple Inc. It's the lawsuit about how Epic is trying to avoid the App Store 30% charge for in-app purchases, which Apple says is essential to cover the costs of maintaining the App Store, doing QA on apps and updates to apps, etc. Last year Epic put in a work-around to avoid the 30% and Apple and Google took Fortnite off of their storefronts. 

This doc was referred to by one of the parties in the suit, so became public, as its a remote hearing being held "in public". While the docs are up I've been having a read. 

Yeah I noticed the Epic v Apple at the top after I asked that.   Interesting stuff.

Some people have problems with this link but its working fine for me. Knock yourself out, there's 2 days of exhibits up so far: https://app.box.com/s/6b9wmjvr582c95uzma1136exumk6p989/folder/135953042066

Other interesting tidbits: Spencer apparently wants xCloud on "other consoles", PS4 is the biggest userbase for Fortnite, Sony demanded that if there is more than an 80% difference between the revenues generated from VBucks and Battle Passes on other platforms and the proportionate amount of time those users spend playing Fortnite on PS4, then Sony gets a kickback to compensate it for providing the platform of choice. 

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Odd, its still there for me. Hang on, I'll screen-grab it. 

I see what you mean now, it's showing as file-removed on my iPhone via Safari. Accessed via Brave on my PC the link works fine. 

From what I've read so-far of Epic's internal comms, it sounds like their first problem with Apple wasn't the App Store cut, but the approval process. Epic wanted patches to go live regardless of known bugs in the build, but Apple was too savvy and was stopping them from being able to push whatever build they wanted out. 

Also fascinating stats on where Fortnite makes the most money and has the most users (PS4). iOS biggest mobile platform for downloads/installs, but DAU and revenue weak across all mobile. Mobile users tend to migrate to other platforms like console if they want to keep playing. 

Fun!

Whuf! 70% of Division 2 sales on Epic Store were fraudulent at one point! https://app.box.com/s/6b9wmjvr582c95uzma1136exumk6p989/file/806843549406

You know, reading that letter, I have to say that the statement about how Division 2 was clearly the outlier reads poorly.

"I know Division 2 had a bunch of fraud, but...you can trust us that it's the only one!"

@snakebit10 Yeah, I'd basically be doing PS4/PS5 versions of the game if I did it, provided there is cross-buy. I wouldn't want to buy any game more than once. 

All I gotta say is that if you want to spend coin on a bunch of ezpz plats, you better go up to #1 on the leaderboard, or you're just inviting scorn from the community.

I've never cared all that much about how other people view my profile. It's for me, and I have this compulsion about watching numbers go up... apparently!

Albeit, not my bank balance for some reason... 🤔

"Another thread opened up lads"

Wonder what the ancient Greeks what discovered magnetism would make of TLoU's tendency towards attracting specific types of people? 🤔