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> You think this is going to make a difference in the cut?

I’m confused. Is that not the purpose of the lawsuit?

It seems likely the purpose was to cause more people to think about the game Fortnite by virtue of the publicity from this.

It seem like something their lawyers pitched to them as “hey if it works, great, you save millions a year on the App Store percentage, and if it doesn’t, hey, at least you’ll get a whole lot of publicity, which should drive your sales up enough to more than compensate for the losses of being off the stores for a bit.”

Seems like a very expensive stunt if they don't get concessions from apple. That app is literally making millions a week on iOS alone.

Ah it makes sense now.

Epic is the maker of unreal engine, which collects a 5% royalty on licensee game sales over $1M.

So they would stand to profit somewhat more than just from lower fees on Fortnite.

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