What seemed to be a simple joke after seeing everything that happened between Epic, Google and Apple, ended up becoming a reality. There are users who are selling their iPhones on eBay with Fortnite installed . Yes, what you are reading. And that is not the news itself, what is striking is that some are asking for amounts of money that double, triple, etc., the original price of the device. A real madness that reminds a bit of what happened with Flappy Bird a few years ago.
I sell iPhone with Fortnite
Last week Epic Games declared war on Apple and Google . He started an action for which he already knew what the result would be: Fortnite, one of his star games or directly the most important, would be removed from both the App Store and the Play Store. The reason? Epic broke the rules of both stores by introducing a new direct payment option with which the 30% commission that Apple and Google disappeared.
The response from Google and Apple was immediate and Fortnite disappeared directly from both. So the game could no longer be installed until the situation cleared up. Or almost, because really in Android there is not much problem to be able to have it even on new devices with new user accounts. Just go to the Epic website and download the official APK. However in iOS and iPadOS things change radically.
Apple devices do not allow installation from sources outside of the App Store. Therefore, the only option to redownload Fortnite on iPhone or iPad is to have it installed at some point. If so, you can go to your purchase history to download it again. Although, be careful, you will not be able to update to future versions to access new content or battle passes.
However, what is striking is that seeing the panorama there were users who began to create sales ads on eBay for their iOS devices with Fortnite installed at prices that can be around double or triple the original price. What’s more, some ads are really funny, because they ask $ 5,000 for an iPhone with Fortnite, a real madness.
Fortnite, the new Flappybird?
Will there really be someone who pays these amounts for an iPhone with Fortnite? We sincerely hope not. That everything simply remains anecdotal. But stranger things have been seen and it is also true that it would not be the first time that more money has been paid than the real cost of the product for simply having a demo or game installed that suddenly disappears.
For example, some PlayStation with Silent Hill PT have sold for quite a bit of money. Whereas a few years ago something similar happened with Flappy Bird. A game that generated such a stir on the internet that it caused its developer to permanently remove it from the App Store. Of course, it was of no use, because soon it was filled with hundreds of clones.
In short, all this reselling a product for software at exorbitant prices is something that is difficult to understand. Especially when there is no great justification. But it is clear that where many see a crisis (Between Epid and Google and Apple) others only see opportunities.
