Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite is a Live Event in Fortnite: Battle Royale.
It featured the premiere of a simple short: Apple is declaring war on Epic Games in a movie theater when suddenly Brite Bomber, being chased by a group of Sledges, runs in and destroys the screen featuring Tart Tycoon by hurling her Rainbow Smash harvesting tool at the screen.
This is a parody of "1984", an apple commercial for the Macintosh personal computer, which is itself an allusion to the book of the same name by George Orwell.
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On August 13th, Epic decided to reduce the price of Vbucks & Limited Time Offers permanently with a hotfix. This also brought the addition of a new feature on iOS devices; Epic Direct Payment. This feature made purchases cheaper than buying from the App Store which adds 30% to any purchase.
After a few hours, Fortnite was removed by Apple from the App Store.
A Party Royale show was announced on their Twitter titled “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. Fortnite’s followers were confused and didn’t take much notice until Fortnite added to the News Feed in-game.
Within minutes of the event being over, at 4:01 PM ET, #FreeFortnite was trending #1 on Twitter.
In just under an hour, Fortnite decided to tweet out some important information for their followers.
They said:
“Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple, read more here: cdn2.unrealengine.com/apple-complain…”
The reaction from the community was mainly positive. This was talked about by several different YouTubers/Twitter users (including Tabor Hill, ITalk, postboxpat, iFireMonkey, and more).
Later, Android users noticed that Fortnite had disappeared from the Google Play Store. A trusted insider (@Slasher on Twitter) revealed that Epic had also filed a lawsuit against Google.
Fortnite tweeted out about the subject with one tweet 4 hours after the original rumours began & 2 hours after the lawsuit rumours. They stated:
“Fortnite is currently unavailable on Google Play. More information will be forthcoming soon.”
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