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Epic needs to offer a 30% discount for anyone who gets their content from their website.

And while I'm not sure if you can side load on Apple products, if you can't, don't offer your services on Apple products. Customers will move as they wakeup to their horrible business practices.

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- Apple forbids people from buying content on their website.

- Apple forbids developers from mentioning that the content might be cheaper elsewhere.

So that won't work.

Kk, so my other answer. Refuse to develop for Apple.

> - Apple forbids people from buying content on their website.

Not quite. Apple forbids directing users to a web site from within your app to sidestep in-app purchases. If you offer any digital purchases through your app, they must use IAP.

AFAIK they did something like that before (ie. they offered x% off coupon, paid out of their own pocket), and several publishers adjusted their pricing up/down so their games wouldn't be eligible for the discount. I believe the reason was that they didn't want to "devalue" their games. random source: https://www.vg247.com/2020/05/18/the-witcher-3-epic-store-10...

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