killroy

radarthekat said:

mikethemartian said:

jimh2 said:

There is no way you should be able to get away with paying $99 to give away in the App Store and then collect money from outside of the App Store. I'll equate it to being able to install a sign inside of Walmart directing the customer to your online store completely which completely cuts Walmart out. The world does not work like this. There are real costs to running the App Store, just like any other store. Of course many people do not realize what it costs to run any type of store including virtual stores which many assume are virtually free. 

This will come back to hurt Epic and others, but it will not be in an obvious way. The biggest risk to Epic is that Fortnite is their pinnacle and interest in it is waning. Prior to phones gamers were a minuscule part of the population and irrelevant to most people. When phones became ubiquitous the group of gamers expanded exponentially and with that came large groups of people who are not serious gamers and never will be. The cool kids always lead the way and they can and do flip in an instant when something is deemed no longer cool. Epic will never have the growth they had with Fortnite again.

Well you could probably pay people to walk around in Walmart wearing T-shirts with those advertisements.

And Walmart can legally deny entry to such people, both into its stores and its parking lots.  

crowley said:

killroy said:

Other than server fees, how do you make money off of free to play when the app uses another payment system for in app purchase.

You sell the device that it's played on.

macxpress said:

killroy said:

Other than server fees, how do you make money off of free to play when the app uses another payment system for in app purchase.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, but ads within the app?