Baru-baru ini, Epic menjatuhkan sedikit kejutan dengan secara sengaja melanggar kebijakan toko aplikasi Apple, yang menyebabkan tidak hanya game populer Fortnite yang dihapus dari perangkat iOS, tetapi seluruh pengembang Apple Epic Games juga berada dalam bahaya, mengancam SDK Unreal Engine itu sendiri.
Hari ini, Microsoft sendiri ikut berperang, mengeluarkan pernyataan di pengadilan tentang menganggap mengapa Apple terlalu kejam, dan bagaimana perilaku Apple dapat mengancam game Microsoft sendiri di iOS, seperti Forza Street. Buka di sini untuk membaca pengajuan pengadilan lengkap, yang dikeluarkan oleh Manajer Umum Microsoft, Gaming Developer Experiences, Kevin Gammill.
Epic Games’ Unreal Engine is critical technology for numerous game creators including Microsoft.
(a) Game engines provide creators with a development environment that delivers the necessary graphics, rendering, physics, sound, networking, and other technologies that enable them to build games that run on multiple platforms.
(b) Although some large game creators choose to develop their own proprietary game engines, many others, including small and independent game creators, utilize game engines built by and licensed from third parties.
(c) Many of these creators do not have the resources or capabilities to build their own game engines and rely on the availability of third-party game engines, while other creators may choose to use third-party game engines to save development costs and utilize already-developed technologies.
(d) As a result, Epic’s Unreal Engine is one of the most popular third-party game engines available to game creators, and in Microsoft’s view there are very few other options available for creators to license with as many features and as much functionality as Unreal Engine across multiple platforms, including iOS.
(e) Microsoft has an enterprise-wide, multi-year Unreal Engine license agreement and has invested significant resources and engineer time working with and customizing Unreal Engine for its own games on PC, Xbox consoles, and mobile devices (including iOS devices). For example, Microsoft’s racing game Forza Street is currently available on iOS and utilizes Unreal Engine.
Denying Epic access to Apple’s SDK and other development tools will prevent Epic from supporting Unreal Engine on iOS and macOS, and will place Unreal Engine and those game creators that have built, are building, and may build games on it at a substantial disadvantage.
Microsoft terlibat dalam perselisihannya sendiri dengan kebijakan game Apple baru-baru ini, karena perusahaan memblokir Project xCloud di iOS karena alasan yang bisa dibilang bodoh. Dengan Apple telah diselidiki oleh regulator antitrust di seluruh dunia atas perilakunya, akan menarik untuk melihat bagaimana pertarungan pengadilan Epic dapat menjadi faktor dalam undang-undang masa depan yang menargetkan Apple.
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