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Fortnite is offering direct payments w/ discounts to get around app store fees on Android, iOS

August 13, 2020

Via: 9to5Mac

Epic Games has been very vocal about its distaste for 30% fees charged by Google and Apple, despite giving in and distributing its hit game Fortnite through the Play Store and App Store. Now, to get around those fees, Fortnite is adding “direct payments.”

As a part of its “mega-drop” announcement today, Epic Games has announced that the in-game currency for Fortnite, “V-Bucks” will be permanently discounted along with other purchases within the game. The prices take effect immediately on PC and console versions of the game, but on mobile devices things are a bit different where there will be two purchase options.

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