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Valve Ordered to Surrender Four Years of Sales Data from Over 400 Games in Epic Games Vs. Apple Lawsuit - Niche Gamer
Feb 26, 2021 1 min, 18 secs

Valve have been ordered to surrender four years of sales data from over 400 games available on Steam, as part of the ongoing Epic Games Vs.

Apple reduced their request to 436 games that are available on both Steam and the Epic Games Store.

Rather than buying the V-Bucks through Google Play and the App Store respectively, Epic Games launched the “Epic direct payment.” “When you choose to use Epic direct payments,” the announcement explains, “you save up to 20% as Epic passes along payment processing savings to you.”.

Epic Games state that “If Apple or Google lower their fees on payments in the future, Epic will pass along the savings to you.”.

Shortly after this announcement, Apple and Google both removed Fortnite from the App Store and Google Play Stores respectively due to Epic Games violating their terms of service.

Epic Games issued legal action against both, citing that they had a monopoly over their stores on iOS and Android.

Apple had allegedly threatened to terminate all of Epic Games’ App Store developer accounts and cut off tools for development on iOS and Mac.

In late August, Apple terminated Epic Games’ App Store developer account.

Epic would successfully win a restraining order that month, denying Apple removing Unreal Engine-based games from the App Store (thereby harming developers who used the engine for their games).

In early September of this year, Apple issued a counter-suit against Epic Games.

Epic Games also reportedly hired a lobbyist to propose a bill in North Dakota, that would allow alternate payment methods on the App Store and Google Play

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