Apple: “Fortnite is running out of time, Epic Games deliberately sued just to promote the game”

The legal battle between Apple and Epic has just turned to another turning point when Apple is filing a lawsuit against Epic for violating its contract with the App Store on iOS to avoid paying millions of dollars in fees. In addition, Apple also asked the court to force Epic to compensate for these damages and prohibit the company from doing anything similar in the future.

In the context of this battle, both sides are constantly using heavy words to criticize each other. In the latest legal file that has just been submitted to the court on Tuesday, Apple confirmed that Epic Games’ decision to ‘lose enough’ with Apple is to … PR for Fornite.

Apple accused Epic Game of deliberately suing in order to attract public attention for Fortnite

According to Apple’s argument, this once considered ‘golden egg chicken’ game is showing signs of slowing down in popularity, forcing Epic Games to use every trick to attract the attention of the public. .

” For reasons unrelated to Epic’s accusations against Apple, Fortnite’s popularity is declining. By July 2020, interest in Fortnite has dropped by almost 70 percent from October 2019. The lawsuit (and the headlines on the front page that refer to the case) appears to be part of a planned marketing campaign to re-draw attention to Fortnite, “Apple said in filing. go to court.

According to Business Insider, Apple has invoked a series of figures to support the allegation. Specifically, Apple’s “70%” figure is based on data provided by Google Trend, which shows how many people have been searching for Fortnite since the game’s release in 2017.

The tech firm also cited an April Yahoo Finance report on a survey showing that other survival titles are catching up to Fortnite in popularity. Additionally, Apple also uses an August 2019 report from Bloomberg that says Fortnite’s revenue is falling.

Notably, before Epic’s move to bring Fortnite back to the App Store, Apple has had a very harsh response in the recent legal record submitted to the court.

” Epic did it himself ‘fueled the fire’, and now asks the Court for emergency assistance to ‘quell’ it, though Epic can do so immediately by complying with the terms. The contract is conducive to its relationship with Apple for many years, “Apple stated.

On the other hand, Apple also confirmed that the iOS version of Fortnite revenue is only a very small part of the total revenue of this game, based on data published by Epic itself. Specifically, Fortnite players on iPhone only account for 10% of the total number of players, bringing the lowest revenue compared to other platforms such as PC, Console, Android.

This means that Epic’s claim it is suffering ‘irreversible damage’ after Fortnite was removed from the App Store is incorrect, Apple argues. Epic Games purposely made a lot of noise to do something else.

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