Epic Games Setting Up Webshops for iOS Developers to Offer Users Out-of-App Purchases

Epic Games today announced plans for ‌Epic Games‌ Store Webshops, a diagnostic that volition let developers to motorboat integer storefronts that are hosted by the ‌Epic Games‌ Store. With Apple's mandated App Store regularisation changes successful the United States, developers volition soon beryllium capable to nonstop customers to web shops to marque out-of-app purchases, bypassing the in-app acquisition flow.


The ‌Epic Games‌ Store volition complaint developers a 0 percent interest for the archetypal $1,000,000 successful gross they cod per app per year, and aft that, developers volition request to wage Epic a 12 percent cut. The fees are applicable to each payments that are processed by the ‌Epic Games‌ Store. ‌Epic Games‌ besides says that players that walk successful Epic Webshops volition beryllium capable to accrue 5 percent Epic Rewards connected each purchases.

Many smaller games bash not transcend $1 cardinal successful gross per year, truthful the ‌Epic Games‌ Store Webshop could beryllium a viable enactment for tiny and autarkic developers. Developers that gain much volition apt privation to acceptable up their ain outgo options utilizing online outgo platforms similar Stripe oregon Shopify for adjacent little fees.

Epic's announcement follows a ruling yesterday that volition spot Apple forced to marque large updates to its U.S. App Store policies arsenic portion of an ongoing ‌App Store‌ quality with ‌Epic Games‌. Apple cannot forestall developers from directing customers to amended deals extracurricular of the ‌App Store‌, nor tin the institution cod fees for these purchases, among different changes.

Apple was ordered to comply with the bid immediately, and the tribunal said that it "will not tolerate further delays." Apple said that it plans to instrumentality the changes arsenic ordered, though it volition entreaty the decision.
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