The ensuing court battle concluded without a definitive “winner,” ordering Apple to enable third-party microtransactions across the App Store and requiring Epic to pay $6 million for breaching its contract.įollowing the court’s ruling, Sweeney’s issued a letter to Apple posed as a message of “clarity” and “common ground,” acknowledging the legal result and requesting the return of App Store developer tools to bring Fortnite back to Mac and iOS devices. This is only the latest legal blows traded by Epic and Apple, starting after Fortnite purposefully circumvented the App Store’s microtransaction policies and escalating when the battle royale game, and Epic itself, were completely banned from the Apple platform. This was made very apparent in a new document shared by Epic Games’ vocal CEO Tim Sweeney, which shows the publisher’s request to be reinstated to Mac and iOS devices met with a very firm “no” by Apple, followed by a complete blacklisting from the App Store. Though the court has issued a ruling in the long legal battle between Epic Games and Apple, it appears neither side is remotely finished fighting.
