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I believe this is bubbling up because apple recently revoked Epic's certificate (sorry if that isn't quite the right term) and these are now the steps required to run Fortnight on Mac.


Technically Apple has (or will) terminate Epic's developer program access, which means that they will no longer be able to sign new builds. They have not revoked the certificate at this time, so those binaries should still continue to run until the certificates expire.


I think people are mostly bitching about iOS, since it will be impossible to run the game on iPhones and iPads anymore at all.


AFAIK this is false, though I could be wrong. I believe cancelling the account is separate from revoking the apps. I think Apple has only deleted installed apps off of user’s phones in rare, exceptional cases, such as actively malicious apps.

Can anyone confirm if I am recalling this correctly?


Apple probably won’t delete the app from user phones, but it won’t be available to new users anymore (those who have never downloaded the app using their Apple account) and Epic will be unable to submit new updates to the App Store, which in practice kills the app




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