If Apple waived the 30% take if you used GameCenter or their game kits you think that would be seen as anti-competitive? Yes. What you have described is Epic e

If Apple waived the 30% take if you used GameCenter or their game kits you think that would be seen as anti-competitive? Yes. What you have described is Epic engaging in anti-competitive behavior that isn't yet because they are the smaller of the store players. I think people are short-sighted in what Apple did for gaming. Just go back to 2007. Before Apple the only way to make a game was flash/PC with no markets other than sites. Consoles and handhelds were for selected larger game studios only. Consoles always took 30% and it was near impossible to dev on them, very few indie programs. Apple changed the game. Apple opened up game development especially handheld. That success of the App Store led to Google Play!. It led to Unity and Unity Asset Store (which also takes 30%). That led to Steam opening up (which also takes 30%). It even led to Epic Games store. It also led to engines like Unity/Unreal being simplified. Unreal at one time was $300k per title, same with Valve, same with other engines. Now those are essentially free. I sometimes think that Apple takes heat, yes some of their rules are annoying, but compared to consoles and the way it was before Apple it is massively better for indies/small/medium game companies. Mobile is in a space between open and console. Epic is biting the hand that feeds here, and Unity would never even attempt something like this. I think Epic is pushed by Tencent to do this and there is deeper reasoning for this, but they are selling it as "for the greater good" which is a lie.