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Is Apple Attempting to Cripple Unreal Engine?

Besides having filed a suit against Apple, Epic Game's popular videogame Fortnite held its #FreeFortnite Cup Sunday.
They claimed that Apple threatened to close their company's developer accounts and Apple's development tools.

Such an issue isn't just affecting Epic Games alone. Please feel free to read Kevin Gammill's thoughts on this matter.

"For game creators in the later stages of development utilizing Unreal Engine and targeting the iOS and/or macOS platform, Unreal Engine’s sudden loss of support for iOS and macOS would create significant costs and difficult decisions," Gammill added. "The creator would have significant sunk costs and lost time using Unreal Engine for game creation, and would have to choose between (a) starting development all over with a new game engine, (b) abandoning the iOS and macOS platforms, or © ceasing development entirely."

Who'd like to spend lot of time and money then? It's like asking Lani or Wulfo or even me to stop developing our games in RM because they wanna decommission it out of the blue. No matter what's the engine you've picked, why should you be forced to accept policies that might prevent you from selling your game or some in game services if you feel like you need to do it? Gladly, Kadokawa doesn't control an extremely large slice of the gaming market, not outside of Japan at least. Even so why do Apple or Google think they can impose their conditions like getting about some 30% cut of all revenues?

I really hope some judges stop them for good before they amass too much power.

Here's the full article.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/epic-g...eal-engine