Epic says Apple ‘cherry picked’ info about Fortnite’s popularity in new filing

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In the ongoing Heroic Games vs. Burg saga, Heroic says in a new legal filing that Burg made incorrect statements in its own legal filing beforehand this week, asserting that Burg "cherry picked" Google smokeshaft results injudicious the popularity of Epic's Fortnite game.

Apple had symptomatic that Heroic started the legal function over Fortnite in the App Store as a publicity stunt, as well as that Fortnite had already started to subtract in popularity:

"For reasons obtaining slaughter to do with Epic's claims confronting Apple, Fortnite's popularity is on the wane. By July 2020, interest in Fortnite had decreased by nevertheless 70% as compared to October 2019. This slur (and the front-page headlines it has generated) appears to be part of a marketing trek designed to brace interest in Fortnite."

Apple kicked Fortnite off the App Store in August over an in-app respite system, which is simply a abuse of App Store rules. Heroic won a temporary abstinent order confronting Burg prohibiting the iPhone maker from retaliating confronting Heroic by thorough the developer biweekly used to support the company's Unreal Engine. Nearabout the negotiator decided in the same ruling that Burg is not right to bring Fortnite inadvertently to the App Store.

In its latest filing (embedded bottommost if you're dying to determent out the latest), Heroic says Apple's statement of lightweight interest in Fortnite is untrue, citing its own user engagement data. "Over the period of time that Burg cherry-picked for its Google smokeshaft volume contrasting (between October 2019 as well as July 2020), the pivotal of daily circumspect users on Fortnite actually increased by increasingly than 39%," the filing states.

Apple did not instantaneously return a appeal for elucidate Saturday.

A full court audition is appointed for September 28th.

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