Epic Games, the game's developer, had included a way for users to purchase Fortnite's in-game currency, V-Bucks, directly from Epic. 'Furthermore, Apple will not consider any further requests for reinstatement until the district court’s judgment becomes final and non-appealable.'įortnite, the popular free-to-play multiplayer battle royale video game, was booted from the App Store by Apple more than a year ago, in August 2020. 'Apple has exercised its discretion not to reinstate Epic’s developer program account at this time,' reads an email from Apple's legal counsel. As Sweeney pointed out in his tweet, the appeals process could very well take as long as five years.Īnd, according to email correspondence embedded in Sweeney's tweets, the end of the appeals process would only signify that Apple would be willing to consider reversing its decision to ban Fortnite, along with Epic's entire developer account. 'Apple informed Epic that Fortnite will be blacklisted from the Apple ecosystem until the exhaustion of all court appeals,' said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney in a thread posted to Twitter on Wednesday.
In fact, it could take so long that some of you won't even technically be kids anymore.
It could be a long time before you get to play Fortnite on your iPhone again, kids. Apple will blacklist 'Fortnite' from App Store for years, says Epic Games CEO
