Epic Games CEO calls Apple and Google ‘gangster-style’ businesses in need of competition

The CEO of Epic Games Tim Sweeey, whose company is made by Fortnite and tools for other developers, including Unreal Engine, Apple and Google as “companies similar to gangs” involved in illegal practices while speaking at the Y Combinator event on Wednesday. The Executive Authority also emphasized how major technology companies’ practices directly affect its own business by intimidating users from installing the EPIC game store programs and preventing an epic from attracting developers to their shows.

It is worth noting that epic games have played a major role in combating large technological monopolies over the past few years.

The company filed a lawsuit against Apple and Google for monopolistic practices on its application stores. Epic won her case with Google but not with Apple. However, the court asked to open Apple for more competition by imposing a change on the rules of the application store. The court said that the application developers should be able to link with other purchase mechanisms alongside Apple. (Unfortunately for application developers, Epic is still fighting with Apple in the courts on this change, as it claims that Apple has violated the court order by allowing developers to process their own payments, but only with a small decrease, by 3 % in the commission, which is not worth time.)

On the stage, Sweeini once again summoned large technology companies for their practices and “malicious compliance” of the courts of the courts.

“The sad truth is that Apple and Google are no longer in good faith, companies attached to the law.” “They run, in many ways, as companies similar to gangs that will do anything they think can get rid of. If they believe that the fine will be cheaper than missing revenues than illegal practice, it always continues in illegal practice and pay the fine.”

The Executive Games official pointed to how technology companies’ practices strike with his business.

For example, when users on Android tries to install the Epic Games on their smartphones, Google warns them that the program is a “unknown source” and may harm their devices. This “horror screen”, as Sweeney calls it to warn users of the risk of installing non -store stores. But he says that the screen leads to 50-60 % of users who give up their attempt to install the program.

A similar decrease rate is found on iOS. In Europe, the epic games store is allowed thanks to the new regulations, but Apple offers a warning to users trying to install it. This leads to a 50-60 % decrease rate.

The use of these screens is called “customizing self -textbooks”, noting that companies “get away with that.”

“The crime is pushing for large technology companies,” he said. “It is clear that we do not expect to change until the enforcement becomes more powerful,” he told the public.

In addition, Exec Fortnite said that due to friction and associated fees with IOS third -party applications, none of the main gaming developers were ready to distribute games through the epic games. Instead of its usual fees by 30 %, the Apple reduces the fees but it collects the “basic technology fees” of 50 cents per year installation for any application with more than a million downloads.

“However, your application is very high for every user, any free game game is largely bent from that,” Sueini explained. “It is very expensive for them. Apple will go bankrupt if they do so.”

I have noticed that the IOS Epic Games has been able to attract some Catalog games. Meanwhile, Android version will be opened for developers later this year, which Sweeey hopes to further enhance the catalog.