Epic Games announced plans to introduce the Epic Games Store on iOS in the European Union, and Apple will reinstate the company’s developer account.
In its 2023 year in review, Epic said it earned its Apple developer account and will soon start building a select app marketplace. The Epic Games store will launch on iOS in the EU sometime in 2024 and will allow Epic Games to bring Fortnite. app to iOS again.
Fortnite was removed from the iOS App Store at the start of the dispute between Epic Games and Apple in 2020, and has been unavailable since. Epic Games brought it to iPhones and iPads through Xbox Cloud Gaming and GeForce NOW, but the game can only be accessed through those browser-based services.
Shortly after Apple announced the chosen app marketplace plan, Epic Games promised that Fortnite would “return to iOS” in Europe, and at the same time, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney criticized Apple’s plan to comply with the DMA. He called it “another shrewd example of malicious compliance” and said the company “strongly rejects Apple’s distortion of this procedure to undermine the festival and continues to impose taxes on Apple on transactions in which it does not participate. “
While running to implement the Epic Games store on iOS, Epic also plans to continue “exposing to courts and regulators that Apple is breaking the law. “
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