> Except no, because Epic wants to move out entirely. They don't want to use Apple's house (read: payments & app store) at all.
Epic may want you to think that, but it's just not true.
My reasoning? They already tried it on Android, and it failed miserably. They moved out the house entirely, taking their listing off the Play Store and allowing side-loading via their website. I'm assuming they also handled payments themselves, too.
A year or so, they came crawling back to Google, presumably due to a massive drop in users.
It's pretty clear that side-loading is not a commercially effective means of distribution, and publishers need the App/Play Stores to get to users.
In this case the basement is Apple's app store and developers who want to sell apps to users are being told to put the lotion on their skin, or else they get the hose (forbidden from selling apps to half the US population.)
