Apple has subpoenaed Epic Games competitor Steam in an attempt to gather information that it says will help in its ongoing legal battle with Epic Games.
The subpoena – which was released through a joint discovery letter that Valve’s detailed reaction to demand – was based on the fact that Steam “is a direct competitor to the Epic Games Store”.
However, despite Epic’s insistence that the order “does not increase the risk of any competitive loss”, Valve says it “has already produced documents relating to its revenue share, competition with Epic, Steam distribution contracts and others documents “and didn’t believe it was necessary to disclose” six years of selling PC games and items to hundreds of third-party video games and then producing a large amount of confidential information about those games and Valve’s revenue “(thanks, PC Gamer).
Consequently, although Apple and Valve “met and checked by phone and exchanged correspondence in a bona fide effort to resolve outstanding disputes”, “the parties were unable to reach an agreement”.
It is now up to the court to decide what information Valve should be required to share and what information.
If you need to keep up with the latest developments with the lawsuit, the lawsuits and lawsuits between Apple and Epic Games appear to be finally coming to an end, with a trial set for May 2021.
As we explained in our full summary of the match, the past few months have certainly been interesting. There are several lawsuits from Apple and Epic Games, and it all started with evading Apple’s 30% transaction fee on the App Store.
This whole saga started on August 13, when Epic Games presented an update to Fortnite on iOS and Android devices. This update gave players the option to purchase V-Bucks directly from Epic Games itself, instead of going through the App Store on iOS devices and the Google Play Store on Android devices. Later that day, Apple immediately removed Fortnite from the App Store, and shortly thereafter, Google did the same by removing the game from the Google Play Store as well.
Given the ban that prohibits 116 million players from accessing the game on Apple devices, Epic Games struck back by taking the issue to court.
Here are all new 2021 games (and beyond).