Epic Games still pretends it did nothing wrong to ruin Fortnite on iPhone

[Chris Smith]

• Fortnite season 4 will not be available on iPhone and Android, as Epic Games isn't willing to fix the problem it created when it chose to defy the App Store and Google Play rules.
• The company confirmed that Fortnite players on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, will not even be able to play people on other platforms going forward, on top of losing access to the upcoming Season 4 update.
• Epic still pretends it did nothing wrong to ruin Fortnite on iPhone, in complete disregard of what the judge presiding over the Epic vs. Apple lawsuit said earlier this week.

From the moment Epic Games engineered a Fortnite crisis on iPhone and Android, I told you that the company isn't an innocent victim in all of this, and it deserves a loss in court. That court came on Monday, with a judge ruling that the Fortnite conundrum is a self-inflicting problem that Epic can fix by merely complying with Apple's App Store rules. It doesn't really matter whether Epic is right to challenge Apple's 30% cut in its antitrust suit. That battle will move forward and has nothing to do with the basic fact that Epic broke contractual obligations. It's easy to take Epic's side in all of this, as the company keeps painting itself as the hero we all need. But it could make the same claims while still adhering to the App Store rules for the duration of the trial.

The other day I warned you not to buy one of those expensive iPhones that come with Fortnite preinstalled and showed you what could happen next. By Friday, I said that we'd learn whether Epic will restore the Fortnite app to the version that doesn't violate any rules, or that it will keep challenging Apple. In either case, the iPhone purchase isn't warranted. It looks like Epic's decision came even earlier than that, and the company confirmed you shouldn't buy that expensive iPhone while continuing to pretend that it did nothing to ruin Fortnite on iPhone and Android.

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