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Apple is using Itch.io’s ‘offensive and sexualized’ games as a cudgel against Epic | The Verge (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

If this would be the case the conversation would be different; it would be on how we can improve the situation of video games as a medium in order to make it less toxic

This is not a business meeting to brainstorm ideas, this is a court, Apple is defending themselves on court, they don't give a F about what is or isn't in EGS, as long as EGS stays away from their walled garden, that's the whole freaking point. But anyway, all they care about in that court is to defend themselves against Epic, not to brainstorm how to fix gaming or whatever, and they made a good goddamn point for their defense using the Itch store in EGS.

EDIT: and just to make it clear, I know, they just want to control and take a bite from every source of monetization they can on iOS. BUT, as long as they use curation as an argument, bringing up Itch on EGS is a good godamn point in their defense. It has nothing to do with attacking small projects that are not even in the same business segments as Apple or whatever.