Fornite’s manufacturer, Epic Games, is backed by Microsoft’s Xbox department in its legal dispute with Apple over the developer license.
Epic sued Apple after the tech giant got rid of Fortnite’s App Store for the developer’s addition to a new in-game payment option.
Apple said last week that it would “make an exception” for Fortnite and allow in-game payment because it violated App Store rules that apply to all developers.
The company said it would also revoke the Epic developer license, which is required to publish games for iOS and macOS and provides a set of computers used on Epic’s Unreal Engine progression platform that is also used through Microsoft and others.
If Apple is allowed to revoke the Epic license, it would mean that games produced on Unreal Engine might not be released for iOS, according to Microsoft, which added that it would endanger the Epic company because developers would have to think twice before doing so. .
Apple has disposed of the popular Fortnite Epic Game from its App Store because the developer violated payment patterns within the Tech Giant’s app. This resolution is the result of Epic Games allowing a direct payment to meet one hundred percent of in-app purchases to deliver 30% relief on Apple payments.
Last week, Epic filed a court order to prevent Apple from cutting it, a decision that has now been subsidized through Microsoft.
“Today we filed a request for help from Epic to retain access to the Apple SDK for its Unreal Engine,” Xbox boss Phil Spencer said in a tweet.
“Ensuring Epic has the latest Apple technologies is the right thing to do for developers and gamers.”
In the statement, filed in a U.S. District Court in California, Microsoft’s general manager for game developer experiments, Kevin Gammill, said, “Epic Games” Unreal Engine is a generation for many game creators. “
He added that many other smaller developers cannot build their own game engines and therefore feature third-party software such as Unreal Engine.
As a result, Epic’s Unreal Engine is one of the most popular third-party game engines for game creators and, in Microsoft’s view, there are very few other features for licensees with as many features and features as Unreal Engine. . platforms, adding iOS, ” said Gammill.
“Rejecting Epic’s access to the Apple SDK and other progression teams will prevent Epic from supporting Unreal Engine on iOS and macOS,” he said.
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