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Epic Games has now stepped up its battle with Apple on Labor Day weekend and the tech giant’s banning of its immensely popular game “Fortnite” from iOS devices like iPhones and iPads.
On Friday night, just before the holidays, Epic filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against Apple, attempting to force them to bring “Fortnite” back to the App Store, The Verge reports.
Former Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers was unwilling to issue a temporary restraining order against Apple to protect Epic games. This was partly because Epic had failed to prove that it was actually harmed, partly because the judge felt that Epic “strategically chose to violate its agreements with Apple” and was therefore at least partially at fault.
In the new presentation, Epic makes the point about the damage, stating: “Daily active users on iOS have decreased by over 60% since removing Fortnite from the App Store.” Epic says iOS is the largest platform for “Fortnite” with 116 million registered users, nearly a third of the 350 million registered users Epic says “Fortnite” has attracted in total.
They also claim that 63% of “Fortnite” users on iOS access the game only that way (and not through other methods like Mac OS X, PC, or Android) and that it’s the only way many people can. play the game. Epic says it is concerned that it will “never see these users again” and that its community of “Fortnite” players has been torn apart.
Some of Epic’s other games are no longer available for redownload on the Mac App Store, such as “Shadow Complex Remastered,” which was removed after Apple terminated Epic’s developer account.
Epic also claims that Apple threatens to deny any attempt to apply for a new developer account “for at least one year” and the harm of “being denied the opportunity to access even a single new user among the more than one billion users. iOS users for at least the next year ”is damage worth creating a preliminary injunction.
Hearings were already scheduled for September 28, now they will be even more interesting.
