Fortnite is not available on Steam, and Epic has publicly and unequivocally stated it will not offer Fortnite on Steam unless Valve changes its business model. Valve collects the purchase price from Steam users and remits the proceeds to the third party developer net of a revenue share to Valve. Third party developers that offer their games on Steam control all pricing and content. Most of these games can also be bought elsewhere, including from developers directly, from brick and mortar retail, or on other PC game platforms. Over 30,000+ PC games are available on Steam, over 99% of which were made by third parties other than Valve. Steam users cannot buy or use mobile apps on Steam. Valve also operates Steam, an online platform that lets users purchase and play PC games on their laptops and desktops. Valve does not make or sell phones, tablets, or video games for mobile devices, or otherwise compete in the mobile market. Valve is a privately held company with approximately 350 employees that develops PC video games. Valve's hitback against Apple includes the following counterpoint in a joint statement to Magistrate Judge Hixson: The reason? It has nothing to do with Fortnite, which is the core of these proceedings. In response to the effort to collect Valve's data to gain a clearer picture of Epic Games' impact within the market, Valve is refusing to deliver said data in the form that Apple is requesting. Valve says that the information desired is "confidential or too burdensome to gather in the manner Apple requested." Sales data, user data, and more are all included in the company's legal plea. Valve and Apple both have "engaged in several meet and confers" but the end result has remained the same: Valve isn't budging when it comes to Apple's demand with Request 2 and Request 32.Īpple wants the names of every single product on Steam alongside prices, dates of release, and configurations about everything on and around the storefront. Being the largest storefront in the PC gaming space (though Epic Games has its own that has been growing steadily), Apple aimed to use the data collected to help secure a win in its fight against the video game giant. The basis for this pull was, according to Apple, that Valve holds vital information with its sales data that could be used against Epic Games in the proceedings to come. The subpoena in question demands that Valve give Apple a ton of data about Steam sales and a plethora of other marketing machinations tied to the digital storefront. The PC company didn't take that lightly and fought back with a variety of points against the subpoena, namely that it has absolutely zero to do with Fortnite. As the legal fight continues between the two tech giants, Apple has decided to throw Valve into the mix by serving up a subpoena back in November 2020 (as revealed in a new court filing that was publicly released). The entire legal battle became messy quickly and resulted in a #FreeFortnite campaign done in the style of George Orwell's 1984. Back in August 2020, Fortnite was pulled from the iOS App Store (and later from Google Play as well) in a feud between Epic Games and Apple over user agreement terms.
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