That was prior to ceding control - now that companies have the ability to stand up their own app stores and do direct payments (as I understand to be the case now at least), where have prices gone down?

VBucks are still $8 aren't they?

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ethbr1 2 days ago | parent [-]

With 20% Epic rewards, if you use Epic's store. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/news/better-deals-in-fortn...

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ericmay 2 days ago | parent [-]

So after all the legal mess and crusading and white knighting about the Apple App Store what we got in return is now buy the same product as I did before for the same price in dollars, but I can get 20% of my purchase price back in what is the equivalent of carnival tokens if I use Epic’s proprietary payment system?

Do you wholeheartedly believe that this counts as lowering prices or providing improvements? Are the Vbucks still $8 or no?

	▲	ethbr1 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		You can choose to value company store bucks however you want, but they're worth >$0, which means that yes, Epic lowered prices. (Reasonably, considering they're saving a good chunk of the App Store tax)