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Fortnite continues poking at Apple with a tournament offering daft prizesIt’s not as fun for devs who rely on Epic
It’s not as fun for devs who rely on Epic
In their ongoing attempt to create a public moral cause out ofthe courtroom battle they started with Apple and Google,Epic Games are holding aFortnitetournament with some stupid prizes mocking Apple. Play in Sunday’s #FreeFortnite Cup and you can earn the apple-headed ‘Tart Tycoon’ skin, and if you do really well you could even win a new laptop, console, phone, or stupid baseball cap with a parody of the old Apple logo. Nice that Epic are having fun with this while mobile developers who use Unreal Engine are uncertain about the future of their games.
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On Monday, Epic announced thatApple intend to terminate their developer accounts, cutting them off from iOS and Mac development tools. Epic filed for a temporary restraining order to halt the plan, calling it an “existential threat” to Unreal Engine and saying they “would be forced to discontinue [it] for those platforms”. Which means iOS devs using the engine would get no more new features, bug or security fixes, and any updates they might need to meet Apple’s ever-changing app requirements. It is shocking that Apple are escalating this much when so many other people might be collateral damage, but it’s irresponsible for Epic to be provoking Apple when so many rely on them.
Must have been a ha-ha-hilarious day in the office when they came up with that name.
The top 1200 players can win gaming hardware - Alienware laptops, Samsung and OnePlus phones, PlayStations, Xboxes, and Switches - while the top 20,000 will get baseball caps with a llama loot piñata logo echoing Apple’s old rainbow apple. What japes!
