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Your iPhone copy of Fortnite is about to become out of date [Updated]
Since Apple pulled Fortnite down from the iOS App Store earlier this month, some eBay users have apparently paid thousands of dollars for iPhones that had a playable, pre-installed copy of the game. Starting tomorrow, though, those devices will be no longer be able to play the latest version of the game.
[Update, 8/26 at 3:10p ET: iOS players who have previously downloaded the game will actually be able to continue playing the current Version 13.40 "Chapter 2 -Season 3" update on iOS, as well as subsequent versions on other platforms. Progression in the Season 3 Battle Pass will no longer be possible on any platform, however, and iOS players won't be able to crossplay with players on later versions on other platforms. Ars regrets the error.]
[...] Android users will still be able to install and play the latest update by downloading it directly from Epic or from The Samsung Galaxy Store on compatible devices.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday August 27 2020, @02:40AM (1 child)
"The world" is composed of fools who put up with this shit and pay to be sodomized by companies like Apple and Google. The fools are the majority, and their money is the very reason why this situation exists in the first place. It ain't going away because the fools and their money aren't going anywhere.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 27 2020, @10:54AM
We ran an investment based R&D business for many years... it was interesting to get to know the investors.
Some of our more reliable money came from trust fund babies... in their late 50s/early 60s these people got a predictable "allowance" of around $400K per year from mom and dad - with this reliable infusion of cash they had built up some income generating businesses of their own, but they still got the $400K and for a while they passed it on to us. These were people who still thought that Amex perk points came for free (like: can I make my $125K investment in your company using my AmEx? because if I do that I'll get a "free" airline ticket to Fiji... we explained that we would really prefer a personal check for $125K that didn't have a 3% CC fee taken out of it, and if they like we'd buy the $1500 ticket for them as a gift.)
Most of the investors were less naive, but more psychopathic. Pump and dump / reverse shell merger were the primary "legal-ish" games they wanted to play, and they usually demanded the first 80% of the profits go back to them while the business assumed 80% of the risk. We didn't take that kind of money, but for many years it was the only kind of money on offer.
Once, we got the attention of a British Knight and the President and VP of R&D of a company he 30% owned - the Knight wanted to expand his prison security business into medical devices, the President & VP wanted to open offices in South Florida, we flew in to Israel to do due diligence on the merger - everything looked good to go, then the other 70% of the board of directors got wind of the deal, fired the President, put the VP on notice, and told the Knight to get over himself.
All kinds of fools out there, not surprising that the consumer level is full of them - the investor class is supposed to be educated, but in my experience they're just as flighty as people who impulse buy candy from the checkout aisle.
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