Wish people cared this much when Epic shutdown the servers for the Unreal Tournament games.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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You’re smart enough to know this is nothing like that because you are old enough to have played UT
Doesn't change that I wish people cared more about when companies shutdown games that they paid for. It cost Epic pennies to keep the master servers running.
So they're wilfully ignoring the EU's Digital Markets Act and a US court-ordered injunction that prevents them from punishing developers for trying to circumvent the use of the App Store for in-app purchases, after one of their execs was caught lying under oath and potentially facing criminal repercussions.
I'm not the biggest fan of Epic Games, but I really want to see this backfire spectacularly. Apple's business practices are so bad that it makes me want to see Tim Sweeney kick Tim Cook's ass in court.
I personally always root for the underdog when I have no stake. I thank epic for the free games I play on my steam deck, used to have an iPhone but transitioned to a Linux phone fairly early, and not a fan of either company's current director.
I can't believe I'm cheering for Sweeney even once, but I guess it works out for all of us in this case.
say their iPhone is preventing them from Installing what they want.
Mind blown that's what you are paying 1000€ for every few years for you Starbucks capitalist - coffee (a coffee for about 25€ thats just a normal coffee so those Hippies can feel like they are fighting capitalism) drinking dipshit.
How does it take someone so long to realise one of the main points of a product they are buying? Like, its like if I'd use a toilet plunger from public bathrooms as totthbrushes, and just after getting e.coli 10 times I realised that they aren't there to brush teeth.
You want the 3 f's? Freedom, Foss and fortnite? Start standing up against such business practices.
While I agree with your point and energy, let's not give anyone going to Starbucks the moniker of "hippie". That is a sacred term reserved for the awesomest of people, and doesn't need to be tarnished by the association with people that have more money than sense.
I keep trying to explain this to useful idiots but to no avail.
The money they keep throwing at corporations will always be used against them.
Yes. I'll add to this that when I look at prices of hardware, it's not even an option. Buying an iPhone would be equivalent to buying a good laptop, except you just can't do much work on a PDA. When excluding actually doing work, as a tool for the job it's equivalent to something 4 times cheaper.
And in addition to that it has disgusting elitist advertising, relies on sweatshops for production, and isn't even fully usable without company's permission to run this or that.
I wanted one when I thought they look very cool.
To be fair, Theres not really any phone that dosent use sweatshops except fairphone if you disregard the Qualcomm and other proprietary parts
But yes, Its really shitty, like, I am using an old samaung S3 as internet radio to this day, and an S7 with lineage as Retroarch gaming console, and they both run completely fine with and without battery. If those were iPhones from that era, they wouldn't even work anymore
If you care about freedom, use open source operating systems, and only buy hardware that support it.
That title sounds redundant. "Apple banned fortnite. People are reporting that it's banned."
I surmised that people are more than just reporting the ban. They seem to be highlighting the unfair hand of Apple preventing them from doing what they want on their device
Didn’t they literally just lose a court case about this very thing?
I think the case was more about the store front(app store) and the percentage they impose without alternatives.
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