{"id":44520,"date":"2024-08-15T14:28:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T18:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=44520"},"modified":"2024-08-15T14:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T18:28:30","slug":"epic-games-pays-altstore-pals-ctf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/15\/epic-games-pays-altstore-pals-ctf\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games Pays AltStore PAL&rsquo;s CTF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/site\/en-US\/news\/epic-s-new-game-strategy-for-mobile-stores\">Epic Games<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimSweeneyEpic\/status\/1816554183631278483\">tweet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/07\/25\/fortnite-altstore-eu\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/site\/en-US\/news\/epic-s-new-game-strategy-for-mobile-stores\"><p>Epic also plans to bring our own mobile games including Fortnite to other mobile stores that give all developers a great deal. And, we will be ending distribution partnerships with mobile stores that serve as rent collectors without competing robustly and serving all developers fairly, even if those stores offer us a special deal for our own games.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In exciting news, we are announcing that our mobile games will come to AltStore on iOS in the EU, and we expect to announce support for at least two other third-party stores soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/8\/14\/24220623\/altstore-pal-third-party-app-store-drops-subscription-epic-grant\">Jay Peters<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@rileytestut\/112962406399251281\">Riley Testut<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/fosstodon.org\/@altstore\/112962388607680148\">AltStore<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=41250470\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/8\/14\/24220623\/altstore-pal-third-party-app-store-drops-subscription-epic-grant\">\n<p>AltStore PAL, a third-party iOS app store that&rsquo;s available in the EU, is dropping its annual &euro;1.50 (plus tax) subscription after receiving a &ldquo;MegaGrant&rdquo; from Fortnite developer Epic Games. AltStore originally charged the subscription to help cover Apple&rsquo;s Core Technology Fee (CTF), which is a fee third-party app marketplaces have to pay for each annual app install.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/08\/15\/altstore-pal-now-free-epic-games\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/08\/15\/altstore-pal-now-free-epic-games\/\"><p>As for Epic, it has submitted the  Epic Games  Store to Apple for notarization under Apple&rsquo;s alternative app marketplace policy in the European Union. The   Epic Games   Store will include Fortnite, which means   iPhone   users in the EU will be able to install and play the title without having to use a cloud gaming service. An  iPad  version of Fortnite is expected to follow this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/08\/epic-games-store-temporarily-allowed\/\">Epic Games Store Temporarily Allowed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/02\/altstore-pal\/\">AltStore PAL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games (tweet, MacRumors): Epic also plans to bring our own mobile games including Fortnite to other mobile stores that give all developers a great deal. And, we will be ending distribution partnerships with mobile stores that serve as rent collectors without competing robustly and serving all developers fairly, even if those stores offer us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-08-15T18:28:32Z","apple_news_api_id":"d3b876a8-9533-4763-96cf-b3bcda06725f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-08-15T18:28:33Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A07h2qJUzR2OWz7O82gZyXw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1878,2542,1969,1927,1768,31,2321],"class_list":["post-44520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-altstore","tag-app-marketplaces","tag-epic","tag-european-union","tag-fortnite","tag-ios","tag-ios-17"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44521,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44520\/revisions\/44521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}