Epic Games Receives Harsh Retaliation From Apple Following Fortnite Fiasco

The battle between Epic Games and Apple is in full swing. The heat went up a notch following Apple’s removal of Fortnite from the App Store. Epic further fanned the flames with its ‘Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite’ video. And now, Apple is back with harsh retaliation.

According to a new statement, Apple will be terminating all of Epic’s developer accounts and also ‘cut Epic off from iOS and Mac development tools’ on the 28th of August. The Epic Games Newsroom Twitter handle posted a tweet about the latest development on the situation.

Further reading: Epic Games vs Apple Is On While Fortnite Suffers

For those of you who haven’t followed the situation, here’s a quick recap:

• Epic announced a bypass for its customers by offering them a direct gateway to purchase Fortnite V-bucks through their website.
• Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store and Google followed suit and removed Fortnite from the Play Store.
• Epic filed a lawsuit against Apple and Google.
• Epic Games released a video, mocking Apple’s iconic 1984 ad (with a tone similar to the dystopian world from George Orwell’s novel with the same name) with the hashtag #FreeFortnite. The Apple commercial meant to make a statement against IBM’s supposed monopolistic reign. And that is exactly what Epic tried to address through the video they made.

Cutting Epic Games off from iOS and Mac dev tools: How will it affect the involved parties?

Senior Editor for The Verge, Tom Warren, posted a tweet about this issue explaining the immediate consequence of the move.

People have been putting in their two cents on the issue as well:

A valuable tool like Unreal Engine will be out of Apple’s reach soon. On one hand, a platform as big as iOS and Mac will be out of Unreal Engine’s clientele, thus dealing heavy damage to Epic. On the other hand, removing an essential tool as Unreal Engine will force the devs on Apple’s platforms to switch to alternatives, which may not prove fruitful.

Popular eSports analyst and insider Rod “Slasher” Breslau commented on this as well.

Something tells us this is far from over. In fact, this will probably soon turn into something uglier. Epic Games is already rushing to courts to prevent this from happening.

Keep watching this space as we keep you updated on the situation.