Apple Reaches Out to Valve in Legal Battle with Epic Games

Apple and Epic Games have had quite a turbulent history of legal issues in the past year. Fortnite, the world’s biggest battle royale game, got removed from the Apple store because its developer, Epic Games, had refused to comply to store rules. If a developer is listing a game on the Apple store, all in-game payments must be processed through Apple, with the company taking a 30% tax cut for it. Epic Games didn’t like that idea too much, so the company just used an external system that gave players the option to pay for in-game goods using different ways. However, that represented non-compliance to Apple store guidelines, and Apple took the Fortnite game down.

Epic Games has sued the famous fruit company over this practice, however, another big publisher is being dragged into the fight. Valve, the company behind the popular gaming platform, Steam, has just entered the fight. Apple has requested Valve to hand over information about Fortnite and its user statistics, meaning the number of monthly, daily, etc. players and other useful information. This information request was made off the court and Valve has denied providing it. In the second attempt by Apple, the information provided was very brief and Valve did not want to provide any more data. The response from Valve was that the company doesn’t sell mobile games and has little business in the mobile world, thus making Apple’s request irrelevant.

Source: Business Insider , Techpowerup