Apple requests confidential information from Steam to be used later in a lawsuit against Epic Games

In November 2020, Apple asked Valve for a large amount of Steam business data to be used in its lawsuit against Epic Games.

In the struggle that takes place between Apple and Epic games A new actor has just appeared, Valve, who owns the Cupertino company requested a large amount of sensitive information from your Steam platform So it can be used in the ongoing lawsuit against the video game developer.

The battle between Apple and Epic Games has been going on for a long time

Tim Cook’s company asked Valve for a large amount of Steam data that could be used against Epic Games

As our PC gamer colleagues tell us, Apple asked Valve last November lots of commercial data from Steam for use in your lawsuit against Epic Games.

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We must remember that this dispute between Apple and Epic Games started in August 2020 When the developer of the version of his Fortnite video game on iOS added a new payment system to get around this, The 30% commission that Apple developers charge When a user buys an app or buys an in-app from the App Store. This led the Cupertino-based company to make the decision Kick Fortnite from your mobile app storeThis was a fact that led Epic Games to take legal action against Apple to demand Fortnite’s return to iOS.

After several meetings between Apple and the managers of Valve, the latter refused to provide the Tim Cook-led company with the commercial data they requested from their Steam platform, indicating this This information is not relevant to your legal action against Epic Games.

From that moment on, opposing positions were established between the two companies, as Apple claims on the one hand that the data was requested from Valve are relevant in your lawsuit against Epic Games because Valve’s digital distribution service, Steam, is the largest distributor of digital computer games today and as such a direct competitor of the Epic Game Store.

On the flip side, Valve believes it has already provided Apple with the necessary information for its legal action against Epic Games and is refusing to provide the commercial data it is now requesting, and argues so Steam is not a competitor in the mobile game segment and in fact Fortnite is not on Steam. In addition, Valve claims that Apple is Use this option to access a large amount of third-party datawho rightly belong to them.

Steam sensitive data that Apple allegedly asked Valve are:

• The total annual sales of apps and products within the app.
• Annual advertising revenue from Steam.
• Annual sales of external products due to Steam.
• Steam annual sales.
• Steam annual income (gross or net).

But it didn’t stop there when the Cupertino-based company allegedly asked seniors Valve Documentation with the following information::

• The name of every application on Steam.
• The length of time these apps were available on Steam.
• The price of each app and all in-app purchases available on Steam.

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We still don’t know how this will end Dispute between Apple and Epic Games However, the best thing for iOS users is that they are okay with it can play Fortnite on their devices.

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