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I gotta say, this is outright spiteful on Epic's behalf. Not necessarily bad, but it's always interesting to watch when companies make things personal like this. It's almost certainly more trouble than it's financially worth to relaunch Fortnite's iOS build in a single country, but I suppose we're here to see how they react.

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It is not spiteful to demand what is yours by right. Apple has been abusing their market position for years, and Korea is making legal inroads on fixing that situation. It is well that Epic should demand Apple follow this long overdue law.

I fully agree, but that doesn't change Epic's motivations one way or the other.

> It's almost certainly more trouble than it's financially worth

This is the same company that nuked their money-printer of a mobile game to prove a point.

I wonder why both sides turned down Gonzales-Rodgers' proposition to allow the game back on and place Apple's 30% in an escrow account until the case is decided.

https://twitter.com/PatrickMcGee_/status/1310648048976982016...

It is well for Epic for this dispute to remain live in the eyes of the public, because a legislative solution in their favor is possibly more likely than a judicial one. On the other hand, Apple doesn't want the world to see how the sky fails to fall in when their iron grip is slightly loosened.

Probably because it presents a lose-lose situation for both parties involved. Epic is still getting their profits cut, and Apple can't be certain if they'll even profit off IAPs at all. In my eyes, that's legal stalemate.

Really? Of all the countries in the world, Korea is probably the most fanatical about gaming, and the payoff for getting Fortnite into the Apple Store would be considerable.

So true. Starcraft was the "self-proclaimed" national sport of South Korea for quite some time.

> Korea is probably the most fanatical about gaming

But Fortnite has never cared about Korea, most of the fanaticism on gaming is for PC games (mobile non-casual games were never big), and Fortnite has never even had any relevance here.

As a Korean, it feels very, very bitter and spiteful for Epic to mention Korea like this. As if... Epic has ever thought of Korea as a somewhat meaningful market for Fortnite.

Sorry, can you provide some more context? What did Epic do to/in Korea specifically to make you feel that way?

This is hardly spiteful compared to Apple's move to cut off all games made using Unreal Engine from the app store, back when Epic started their campaign. (Apple was only stopped from doing so by the court after Epic filed their lawsuit.)

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