Epic Games revealed that he does not know if Fortnite will come back to the IOS platform in the United Kingdom, after the release of two CMA (Competition & Markets Authority) road sheets concerning the mobile platforms of Google and Apple.
In a job On his website, Epic says that FortniteThe “return to iOS in the United Kingdom is now uncertain” thanks to the decisions of the CMA, and that it “cannot bring the Epic Games store to iOS in the United Kingdom this year (if ever)”.
For the context, the CMA presented roadmaps for investigations on market status on Google And Apple Respectively today, and in both cases, obliging the two companies to allow developers to point users to other application stores and payment methods are under the measures that the authority “will consider from the first half of 2026”.
Epic calls this an “missed opportunity to introduce competition into a currently monopolized market”. It is a decision that is contradictory with a Recently made by the European CommissionWho saw Apple slapped with a fine of 500 million euros and forced to “inform customers, free of charge, alternative offers outside the App Store”.
According to Epic, Apple and Google must be “completely blocked to impose fees and discriminate the applications using the payment outside application” …
