Fortnite Gets Kicked Out From Google and Apple App Stores, Epic Games Files a Lawsuit

[Aquinus]

Iirc that only applies to the games themselves and dlc, there are many games that bypass steam with in-game purchases and Valve isn't throwing a fit and giving them the boot.

They probably should though because it's used as a mechanism to make up for the fact that the game is "free". The issue is that it's not free for Valve, Apple, and Google to maintain their services to make said game available. So a free game with DLC that doesn't take a cut of in-game purchases means zero revenue for services (like the App Store and Google Play Store,) that the game is taking full advantage of.

 

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They probably should though because it's used as a mechanism to make up for the fact that the game is "free". The issue is that it's not free for Valve, Apple, and Google to maintain their services to make said game available. So a free game with DLC that doesn't take a cut of in-game purchases means zero revenue for services (like the App Store and Google Play Store,) that the game is taking full advantage of.

The problem as I see it, is making games available is basically running a hosting service. We've had that for years, with CDNs and whatnot and I hardly think running that comes is worth 30% of everything that moves.
And if you're thinking SteamWorks, Google Play Services and such, APIs are charged by usage/traffic already.

And again, let the courts decide, that's why we have them.

 

[Aquinus]

The problem as I see it, is making games available is basically running a hosting service. We've had that for years, with CDNs and whatnot and I hardly think running that comes is worth 30% of everything that moves.

It's more than just hosting though. It's not just a S3 bucket.

 

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It's more than just hosting though. It's not just a S3 bucket.

It's reviewing and hosting. Anything else I'm missing?

 

[AusWolf]

The problem as I see it, is making games available is basically running a hosting service. We've had that for years, with CDNs and whatnot and I hardly think running that comes is worth 30% of everything that moves.
And if you're thinking SteamWorks, Google Play Services and such, APIs are charged by usage/traffic already.

And again, let the courts decide, that's why we have them.

With this train of thought, we could contest rent, taxes, insurance premiums, credit card interests, food prices, basically everything, but all of it would be irrelevant. We have to pay for what we use, that's it.

 

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With this train of thought, we could contest rent, taxes, insurance premiums, credit card interests, food prices, basically everything, but all of it would be irrelevant. We have to pay for what we use, that's it.

I'm pretty sure most of what you listed has been litigated already