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A one day 10% off sale is a change in behavior due to no action taken by the user triggered remotely by the developer. Is a sale very close to malware?

• jachee 6y ago
  Depends. Does the sale require me to submit payment details to a not-already-trusted platform? The change remotely triggered by Epic redirects users to a third-party (Epic) payment system, but what if it were, say, a malicious Epic insider? How much user payment info/cash could they grab before they were detected and disabled?
  • tfigment 6y ago
    They actually gave 2 options. If you didnt trust the game maker and their discount you could continue paying the premium to Apple directly and continue feeling safe.
    • AlexandrB 6y ago
      It's funny that this choice wasn't "offered" to console users who got the 20% discount even as 30% still went to Sony/Microsoft. The two-tier pricing on iOS was purely a stunt and had nothing to do with Epic's costs.