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Epic Games CEO reveals the truth after Apple terminate company's developer accounts

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeny says Apple had a choice and it was not made compulsory to remove the developer accounts. The iPhone maker, however, chose to terminate the accounts.

By: HT TECH
| Updated on: Aug 20 2022, 22:40 IST
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Just hours ago we saw Apple announcing that it is terminating the developer accounts of Epic Games on the App Store. This means no more updates to Fortnite for the foreseeable future. This decision, as mentioned by Apple, came from the court. But Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeny says Apple had a choice and it was not made compulsory to remove the developer accounts. The iPhone maker, however, chose to terminate the accounts.

“Apple's statement isn't forthright. They chose to terminate Epic's account; they didn't have to,” tweeted Sweeny as a reply to 9to5 mac's story post. He even mentioned that Apple suggests we spammed the App Store review process. That's not so.

Also read: New season of Fortnite is here, Apple users miss out

Apparently, Epic Games submitted three builds of Fortnite. While two of them included bug fixes, the third one was the Season 4 update with a note. The note clearly mentioned that Fortnite build v14.0 was uploaded through the App Store Connect and the particular build offers customers in-app purchases through either Apple's payment solution or through Epic direct payment. “Epic is submitting this version in case Apple wishes to restore Fortnite to the App Store in time for Season 4 launch.”

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First Published Date: 29 Aug, 11:14 IST
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