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Everybody talks about the 30% cut... however, I'm almost afraid to say "be careful what you wish for." A device that allows sideloading to avoid a 30% cut, is also a device that allows piracy. (I'm still in favor of sideloading, but I'm very pessimistic about developers recovering that 30% as increased profit.)



Apple will still take their 30% cut.

It's just that it will move from being taken automatically by the company to a model where third party App Stores/developers will need to pay it back to Apple on an ongoing basis.

Apple already has a system in place that captures which applications are being launched.


The EU law doesn’t seem to allow that though.


You can't really pirate GaaS. All your v-bucks and skins live on the server.


Right, so the big players like Epic win, while the small indie devs making single player games can go fuck themselves.




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