Fortnite is coming back to IOS, but only in the EU

Epic has announced on their social media accounts that Fortnite will be making a comeback on IOS in countries that are part of the European Union. This is due to the Digital Marketing Act that protects these countries, preventing Apple from engaging in unfair practices that could give them an unfair advantage over business users and customers who rely on their platform.

With this law, Epic will be able to launch its Store on IOS to compete with Apple's App Store, which will allow it to relaunch Fortnite on IOS devices. However, it might not be that easy, as Apple still wants to be in control, as they announced the changes they would make in the EU Market to comply with the DMA, which includes a "Core Technology Fee," which in concept is the same as the Runtime Fee Unity will be running on their latest version, which looks to charge the developers for every time the game/app gets installed.

It seems that the reason why Epic Games did not provide a specific launch date for their Appstore and Fortnite is due to the changes that Apple is currently implementing. Epic Games is likely to make an announcement when these issues are resolved. Apple is providing developers with only two options: to stay with them or to have a deliberately worse experience in another store because of Apple.

Despite the limitations, Tim Sweeney, Epic's CEO, is determined to fight on and launch the Epic Games Store on iOS on fair terms.