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Once you complete all or most of your challenges in Fortnite: Battle Royale, perhaps the most anxiety-inducing part of the gaming experience is figuring out where you want to drop off the Battle Bus and skydive to on the island. Do you risk the intense opening frenzy of Tilted Towers that kills off roughly lots of players within minutes? Or do you go with something a little more low-risk, like the shoreline north of Wailing Woods? Now, Amazon Alexa can remove the onerous choice from your to-do list by making the decision for you — but it’s probably going to be bad advice.

“Fortnite Dropper” is a resource classified as an Alexa Skill or Google Home Action that’s been around since February, and it’ll tell you exactly where to drop in Fortnite: Battle Royale. There’s no complicated algorithm or strategy associated with Fortnite Dropper. Your smart-home devices randomly blurt out one named location on the Fortnite map out of the 18. To execute the function, it’s as simple as saying, “Hey Alexa, ask Fortnite Dropper where I should land!” She’ll tell you, and she’ll probably send you to your death in the process.

Fortnite Dropper obviously cannot take into account the trajectory of the Battle Bus in your match or how many players deploy to specific areas in real-time. For all you know, Alexa could send you directly into enemy fire resulting in your early death. Or she could send you to a safe destination with no competition and you’ll wind up winning. That’s the thing. It’s random, and the essence of randomness is absent of any coherent strategy.

But Fortnite Dropper is also designed to function with all sorts of common Fortnite: Battle Royale keywords and phrases, with our favorite being, “Ask Fortnite Dropper where we dropping boys!?” Now you and “the boys” will never have to choose for yourselves ever again. Now that’s kind of brilliant, and something I’ll totally tell the boys about.

For now, you probably should probably still just go to Tilted Towers for the foreseeable future. After all, most people think it’ll get leveled by a meteor any day now, so you probably have a limited number of chances left. There’ll be plenty of time for randomness once Season 4 starts sometime in early May.

Fortnite Dropper is available via Google Assistant and Amazon as an Alexa Skill

(CNN) — The maker of Fortnite is suing Apple and Google after the tech giants blocked the wildly popular online video game, which boasts hundreds of millions of registered players, from their app stores Thursday.

The companies behind the iOS and Google Play app stores said they removed Fortnite because its developer, Epic Games, violated their guidelines by announcing a way for players to buy in-game currency without using Apple and Google’s proprietary payment systems.

It quickly became clear that the suits were not a spur of the moment decision by Epic. The complaints ran to 60 pages each, and one of the lawyers involved is Christine Varney, who ran the Justice Department’s antitrust division during the Obama administration.

Epic then added insult to injury, releasing a video parodying Apple’s iconic “1984” ad, casting Apple in the role of villain. It also threw Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” slogan back at the tech company, and accused the firm of having “relegated its motto to nearly an afterthought.”

First Apple, then Google

The controversy began when Epic Games announced Thursday it will offer a permanent 20% discount on Fortnite’s in-game currency if players purchase directly from Epic.

In a blog post, Epic said players could not get the discount if they paid via Apple or Google.

“Currently, when using Apple and Google payment options, Apple and Google collect a 30% fee, and the up to 20% price drop does not apply.”

The company added, “If Apple or Google lower their fees on payments in the future, Epic will pass along the savings to you.”

Epic’s post referred to how both Apple and Google app stores take a 30% cut of in-app sales. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has publicly criticized both Apple and Google for their practices.

Hours later, Fortnite had vanished from Apple’s app store — and Epic responded with a lawsuit.

“Apple’s removal of Fortnite is yet another example of Apple flexing its enormous power in order to impose unreasonable restraints and unlawfully maintain its 100% monopoly over the iOS in-app payment processing market,” Epic said in its complaint, which was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. It requested an injunction to prohibit Apple’s allegedly anticompetitive conduct and to mandate that Apple restore competition.

Apple said Thursday that Epic had violated its App Store guidelines regarding in-app payments.

“Today, Epic Games took the unfortunate step of violating the App Store guidelines that are applied equally to every developer and designed to keep the store safe for our users,” Apple said in a statement emailed to CNN Business. “As a result their Fortnite app has been removed from the store.”

Apple said it will work with Epic to resolve the violations so Fortnite can return to the App Store.

Later Thursday, Google said it too had removed Fortnite from the Google Play Store, though the game can still be installed from other sources on Android devices. Users who already installed Fortnite on iOS or Android will still be able to play, but they won’t receive app updates.

“The open Android ecosystem lets developers distribute apps through multiple app stores,” Google said in a statement. “For game developers who choose to use the Play Store, we have consistent policies that are fair to developers and keep the store safe for users. While Fortnite remains available on Android, we can no longer make it available on Play because it violates our policies. However, we welcome the opportunity to continue our discussions with Epic and bring Fortnite back to Google Play.”

In response, Epic filed another suit — this time against Google.

Google “is using its size to do evil upon competitors, innovators, customers, and users in a slew of markets it has grown to monopolize,” the complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, read.

An ongoing antagonistic relationship

This isn’t the first time Epic has had an antagonistic relationship with the major app stores. In 2018, Epic announced it would not bring Fortnite to Google’s Play Store and instead asked players to download the game directly from its website.

In April, Epic released Fortnite on the Google Play Store, two years after the game landed on iOS. At the time, it explained in a statement that it finally made the move because software downloaded outside of Google Play on Android operates at a disadvantage, suffering from security pop-ups and restrictions, with Google public relations describing such software as malware.

The revolt against the dominant app store operators includes other household names. Last year, Netflix ended support for in-app subscriptions, asking users instead to pay through its website. Spotify made a similar decision in 2016.

More recently, the new email service Hey.com found itself at odds with Apple because it did not use Apple’s own payment platform. Hey’s founder, David Heinemeier Hansson, testified in January against Apple’s practices in a congressional hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel, which is investigating Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google for potential anticompetitive behavior. Hansson has told CNN he’s also spoken to Justice Department antitrust officials about the app’s experience with Apple.

Apple’s policies have attracted the attention of international competition regulators, as well. Earlier this year, the European Commission opened two antitrust investigations into Apple’s App Store, citing a complaint by Spotify.

Apple has rejected claims that it uses its control over the iOS App Store in an anticompetitive manner. It hired an independent research firm to publish a report showing that the 30% cut it takes is standard across many digital marketplaces.

As Epic was preparing to launch its own software marketplace, Sweeney said it no longer makes sense for app stores to take such a hefty chunk of app developers’ revenue.

“The 70/30 percent split was a breakthrough more than a decade ago with the advent of Steam, the Apple App Store, and Google Play,” Sweeney said in an interview with Game Informer. “But today, digital software stores have grown into a $25,000,000,000+ business worldwide across all platforms, yet the economies of scale have not benefited developers.”

Epic says its own app store takes a much smaller cut from app makers — just 12%.

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