Epic: Number of daily Fortnite players on iOS is down 60 percent

In a new court injunction, Epic reports that the number of daily Fortnite players on iOS has decreased by 60 percent since Apple removed the game from the App Store and discontinued multiplayer.

In total, there are 116 million registered Fortnite users on iOS, which is nearly a third of the 350 million registered players in total, Epic reports in Friday’s preliminary injunction filed. The Verge publishes the legal document. It is not known how many daily active players there are on iOS, but that number would have decreased by 60 percent.

Epic measured from the moment of the removal of Fortnite from the App Store to September 2. In addition, multiplayer on iOS and macOS stopped at the end of August. Of the Fortnite players on iOS, 63 percent could only play the game on iOS, the claim goes on. Epic tries to give an indication of the damage suffered, although the game company does report that the damage cannot be calculated in an amount.

According to Epic, Fortnite is a social platform and a ‘place of gathering of players across all platforms’. The company expresses concern that runaway players will not return and complains that it will not be able to approach any of the more than one billion iOS users. This measure would remain in effect for at least a year.

Apple responds with a summary of its earlier statements that Epic has violated the terms of the App Store with updates to Fortnite, that this is not fair to other developers and that Epic itself is harming customers. The business starts on September 28. The judge ruled in an earlier preliminary injunction that Apple should not close Epic’s developer account for the Unreal Engine, but the removal of Fortnite was allowed by the judge.