Pubg Mobile on IOS is in Danger!

[Rahul BS]

Since Apple are looking to remove all Epic Games related content from the App Store, Apparently they are looking to remove Unreal Engine support too since its an asset of Epic Games, as early as this month! Epic Games are trying to get a court order to stop them but numerous games can lose support and one of them includes Pubg Mobile!

Thoughts? :o

[TheZZL]

I think Epic really brought this onto themselves by trying to cut Apple/Google out of the loop through the direct payment. They should just do what we all did in middle school, say you're sorry and ask for forgiveness (ask them to revert it).

[Rahul BS]

True! But Epic also has a point, 30% cut to apple is kinda ridiculous and is possible only because of a monopoly. Mind you 30% just via transactions, which is why they made their own payment gateway. Eitherway, Apple do not care about devs, we need regulations to avoid the effect of a monopoly like this.

[TheZZL]

True! But Epic also has a point, 30% cut to apple is kinda ridiculous and is possible only because of a monopoly. Mind you 30% just via transactions, which is why they made their own payment gateway. Eitherway, Apple do not care about devs, we need regulations to avoid the effect of a monopoly like this.

 

I agree. This makes me think of the controversy between Apple and Spotify about their music platforms. Apple was practically bleeding them dry with the 30% cut, especially on their $.99 subscription. Also, recently Apple, Amazon, and Facebook were questioned by Congress for their anti-competitiveness practices, and this is what Tim Cook said:

Cook argued that the App Store’s 30 percent cut is actually a lot lower than what its competitors could have charged.

 

“Apple’s commissions are comparable or lower than commissions charged by the majority of our competitors,” he said. “And they are vastly lower than the 50 to 70 percent that software developers paid to distribute their work before we launched the App Store.”

 

Cook stressed that Apple has never raised the commission rates for the App Store since 2008 and that only a small fraction (16 percent) of app developers are subject to that fee because their apps require capabilities provided by Apple devices to function

[sWz]

Anti competitiveness? Unless I'm missing something, Apple keeping fees, subscriptions, and rates low is the definition of competitiveness.

[Andrew]

I will truly not know what to do if PUBG mobile is removed from the app store.

[Gentoo]

Those greedy bastards!