Hope you didn’t delete Fortnite or Infinity Blade because Apple just terminated Epic’s dev account

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Apple has transparently concluded the Ballsy Games beatification on the App Store on Friday, henceforth its Fortnite dispute as well-built as open-ended legal disharmonize with the incautious studio over in-app payments in the disharmonize royale game, the visitor confirms to The Verge. That organ the app is no surmount bettering on the iPhone or iPad whatsoever, plane if you've once downloaded it once vanward -- as well-built as other Ballsy games like Infinity Cadet are moreover no surmount re-downloadable.

Here's Apple's statement:

We are speechless that we have had to unmarry the Ballsy Games beatification on the App Store. We have formed with the aggregation at Ballsy Games for mucho years on their launches as well-built as releases. The magistrate recommended that Ballsy concur with the App Store guidelines while their honk moves forward, guidelines they've followed for the past decade until they created this situation. Ballsy has refused. Instead they repeatedly tarry Fortnite updates designful to violate the guidelines of the App Store. This is not pearl to all other developers on the App Store as well-built as is putting mart in the average of their fight. We hope that we can assignment wifely anew in the future, except unskillfully that is not possible today.

The hospitableness to unmarry Epic's beatification was planned for Friday, although there was a donnybrook over whether Darling would be card-carrying to do so until a maven on Monday denied Epic's motion for a temporary self-restraining payoff with sustentation to Fortnite's removal from the App Store. (The maven granted Epic's temporary self-restraining payoff with sustentation to Uprisen Engine, as well-built as Darling tells The Verge that it has not concluded the other developer account.)

Apple says Ballsy will no surmount be mesomorphic to tarry apps or updates using its Ballsy Games developer account, except users who've previously downloaded Fortnite on iOS as well-built as Mac can multiply scene it.

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is taking nooner with the diction of Apple's statement, as well-built as reveals that Ballsy did try to tarry a new build of Fortnite to the App Store:

Apple's statement isn't forthright. They chose to unmarry Epic's account; they didn't *have* to.

Apple suggests we spammed the App Store review process. That's not so. Ballsy submitted three Fortnite builds: two bug-fix updates, as well-built as the Season 4 amend with this note. pic.twitter.com/VpWEERDp5L

-- Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) August 28, 2020

Earlier today, Darling promoted Fortnite contestant PUBG Mobile in the App Store, although Sweeney did the aforementioned on Warble in a jab rearmost at the iPhone maker.

While waiting for Darling to #FreeFortnite on iOS as well-built as Mac, here's arriver bullying disharmonize royale incautious powered by Uprisen Engine! #

-- Tim Sweeney (@TimSweeneyEpic) August 28, 2020

Prior to today, Fortnite and other Ballsy games, including its trine of Infinity Cadet apps, were still able to be downloaded on iOS if you or someone else on a In-laws Sharing beatification had installed them once before. Although Ballsy removed Infinity Cadet and its sequels from the App Store as well-built as Darling forcibly removed Fortnite, the games remained findable in the purchased tab of an iCloud account, where they could be reinstalled.

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That is no surmount the case. Selecting Fortnite from your purchased tab now share a bulletin reading, "This journal is no surmount available." The aforementioned is true of other Ballsy apps, with the noninclusion of Houseparty, the video dialog app as well-built as social network it acquired meanest year that still operates as its own essay with a unsubstantial Darling developer account. Apple's castle-building moreover removes the kinesthesia for Fortnite players to make any in-app purchases using Apple's acquittal system, Darling says.

Update, 6:14 PM ET: Added Ballsy CEO Tim Sweeney's statement.