Epic Video games CEO resubmits Fortnite to Apple App Overview… once more

Epic Video games has resubmitted Fortnite to Apple App Overview within the US after suggesting there was no reply to a beforehand submitted model.

In response to CEO Tim Sweeney, Fortnite was submitted to Apple for overview on Might 9. Yesterday, he posted on X (previously Twitter) that Apple hadn’t accredited the sport’s launch (thanks, VGC).

“We have to launch a weekly Fortnite replace with new content material this Friday, and all platforms should replace concurrently. So we have now pulled the earlier Fortnite model submitted to Apple App Overview final Friday, and we have now submitted a brand new model for overview,” the publish learn.

Since Might 10, Sweeney has been sharing every day updates on X, saying that there was “no information” from Apple, in response to folks asking concerning the overview standing.

Yesterday, an X consumer requested Sweeney how he “didn’t plan for this.” The CEO response was as follows: “Our launch planning depends on platforms supporting app builders like us releasing apps. There isn’t any means a quickly evolving multi-platform recreation like Fortnite can function if platforms use their energy or processes to hinder.”

As noticed by VGC, in keeping with the App Overview pointers, on common, 90 % of submissions are reviewed in lower than 24 hours by Apple.

Epic and Apple are nonetheless battling over the app retailer

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This week’s information is the most recent in a collection of developments round a years-long authorized battle between the 2 firms to reinstate Fortnite on iOS. In January 2024, the sport turned accessible within the European App Retailer once more. Two months later, Epic claimed that its European account had been “terminated,” which was a “severe violation” of Europe’s Digital Markets Act. The account was reinstated the subsequent day.

“This sends a powerful sign to builders that the European Fee will act swiftly to implement the DMA and maintain gatekeepers accountable,” the corporate wrote in an announcement on the time.

Then, in June of the identical yr, a brand new legislation handed by Japanese parliament opened the door for Epic to submit Fortnite to Apple Japan’s App Retailer. The invoice is ready to take impact in late 2025. Again in December, the developer additionally secured a deal to preinstall the sport onto Android telephones in UK and Spain.

“Fortnite will now return to iOS in Japan and UK subsequent yr, and EU this yr! That is the brand new free world, from the standpoint of app builders and customers. It’s a giant membership and we ain’t in it: The US of America continues to be locked behind Apple’s Iron Curtain,” Sweeney mentioned on X in June 2024.

Disclosure: The creator of this piece has beforehand contributed editorial work to the Epic Video games Retailer Information part.

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