Tim Sweeney didn’t expect a five-year Fortnite ban

Fortnite was missing from the iOS App Store for astir 5 years earlier returning to the US past month. Apple kicked the crippled disconnected successful 2020 aft Epic snuck successful an in-app outgo mechanics that violated App Store rules astatine the time. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney knew that the prime would effect successful "fireworks," but helium initially expected the app would instrumentality rather a spot sooner.

"I had really hoped that we would get an injunction against Apple blocking Fortnite and that we'd lone beryllium disconnected for a fewer weeks," Sweeney tells The Verge. "But the tribunal process dragged out, and we were disconnected for 5 years."

Since its iOS return, Fortnite seems to beryllium having a batch of occurrence connected the platform. As I constitute this, it's the apical escaped crippled successful the App Store. There person been astir 10 cardinal downloads connected iOS since it came backmost on May 20th.

Sweeney and Saxs Persson, EVP of Fortnite ecosystem astatine Epic, wouldn't stock a circumstantial fig of nett caller players with the instrumentality of Fortnite connected iOS, but they accidental that Epic mostly sees 2 types of radical coming to the title. There are the ones who play connected the biggest and champion instrumentality disposable to them astatine the clip - similar a TV astatine location and a telephone connected the spell - and the ones who pr …

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