Att Fortnite / Gears of War-skaparna Epic Gamer tillbringar mer tid i rättssalen än med att utveckla spel är ingen nyhet och efter deras utdragna tvist med Apple är det nu Google som det bråkas med. På bred front. Epic släppte ju redan 2018 Fortnite till Android via sin egen sida för att därmed slippa ge Google 30% av intäkterna från Vbucks-inköpen, något som enligt nysläppta dokument från rättegången drev Google till massiv panik.
The Verge skriver:
"Google has confirmed in court that Epic was offered a $147 million deal to launch its hit game Fortnite on Android's Google Play Store. The deal, which Google's VP of Play partnerships, Purnima Kochikar, says was approved and presented to Epic but not accepted, would have seen the money dispensed over a three-year period of "incremental funding" (ending in 2021) to the games publisher. It was meant to stem a potential "contagion" of popular apps bypassing Android's official store and, with it, Google's lucrative in-app purchase fees. Epic launched Fortnite on Android in 2018 directly through its website, avoiding the Play Store. That allowed it to sell Fortnite's in-game currency, V-Bucks, without paying the commission required of Play Store apps. It relented in 2020, saying that "scary, repetitive security pop-ups" and other factors had put it at a severe disadvantage."