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Your iPhone copy of Fortnite is about to become out of date [Updated]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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2020, @05:26AM (1 child)
In general gaming console companies will try to avoid doing that sort of thing (especially intentionally), because it's very bad for business. The entire purpose of your platform is to play games, and if your customers suddenly find they can't play a game they paid good money for, that will not end well. Sony made the decision to cut out Linux on PS3 as they decided that it wouldn't affect the majority of their game-buying clients, you know, their actual customers. I read through the second link you provided, and that doesn't seem to support your contention either. According to your article, Sony didn't actually roll out that potentially damaging firmware update to all PS4's. It was beta testing firmware that they made available only to people who were actually foolish enough to want to try it out. It seems they managed to fix those potential issues before the next production firmware general release. Subsequent PS4 firmware updates didn't have big problems it seems, else they'd have made huge news that we probably would have heard about here.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Thursday August 27 2020, @02:33PM
One might argue that the people who paid for a PS3 were their actual customers. Thus, they took away a feature that was interesting / useful to at least a subset of their customers. They also dumped backwards compatibility with PS2.
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