Epic Games has paid Apple $ 6,000,000 in royalties today, Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, said on Twitter. As part of the resolution of Epic’s ongoing legal battle against Apple, Epic was ordered by the court last week to pay 30% of the revenue it collected from the Fortnite app through its direct payment option il · Lawful.
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At the start of the dispute between Epic and Apple, Epic added a direct purchase option to the Fortnite app, bordering on Apple’s purchase rules. This violation of Apple’s App Store guidelines led Apple to remove Fortnite from the App Store, and right after that, Epic filed the previously planned lawsuit.
Although Apple removed Fortnite from the “App Store” shortly after Epic violated the in-app purchase rules, “Epic Games” was still able to collect payments from customers who had already installed the app. and actively used it. During the period of time the app was available before a Fortnite upgrade made it unusable, Fortnite earned $ 12,167,719.
PEpic Games was forced to pay 30 percent of the total $ 12 million earned between August 2020 and October 2020, plus 30 percent of revenue collected since August 1. November 2020 to the date of the judgment, in addition to interest, which is the Proves of $ 6 million.
In last week’s ruling, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers determined that Apple did not have a monopoly on mobile gaming and the lawsuit was largely in Apple’s favor. Apple has been instructed to allow developers to add “buttons, external links, or other calls to action that direct customers toward purchasing mechanisms,” which will allow developers to provide different payment options from the purchase. application to your applications.
Apple’s lawyers called the verdict a “resounding victory” that validates the “App Store” business model, but “Epic Games” was not happy with the outcome. In a tweet, Sweeney said the ruling was not a “victory for developers or consumers” and that Epic would continue to “fight for fair competition between in-app payment methods and app store stores.” billion consumers “.
He also said Fortnite will not return to the “App Store” in the near future. “Fortnite will return to the iOS App Store when and where Epic can offer in-app payments in fair competition with Apple’s in-app payments, passing the savings on to consumers,” he wrote.
Over the weekend, Epic Games filed an appeal against the ruling, so the dispute between the two companies is far from over. Apple has not yet decided whether or not to appeal parts of the ruling.