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Title: Epic Games Is Launching Webshops To Circumvent App Store Fees

Link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/201...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Epic Games is taking a
victory lap. After notching a big win against Apple in a years-long legal
dispute, Epic announced that its Epic Games Store will allow developers to
open webshops, which can offer players out-of-app purchases to circumvent
fees from Apple and Google. [...] With the Epic Games Store's new webshops
feature, other developers will be more easily able to follow suit. Usually,
Epic takes a 12% share of a developer's earnings from the Epic Games Store,
which is still a better deal than what developers get from Apple. But
starting in June, Epic Games will not take a cut from the first $1 million
each game earns annually. Only after a game eclipses $1 million in revenue
will Epic begin taking a cut. "With new legal rulings in place, developers
will be able to send players from games to make digital purchases from
webshops on any platform that allows it, including iOS in the European Union
and United States," Epic said.

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