Epic Games has set foot in Google and released Fortnite in the Play Store.
The longest time Fortress night Developer Epic Games did not want to pay Google a 30% discount by buying the game on the Play Store, so the company never released the game there.
Since then, Fortnite can be used on Android, but only through Epic ’s launcher on Android. Skip Google Play and require players to load the game horizontally will obviously bring a lot of potential traffic to developers, but for a while, this does not seem to matter.
Today, 18 months later, Fortnite can now be found in the Google Play store like most Android apps. Although Epic finally held back the bullet, the developers were not satisfied with it. In a statement to Polygon, Epic called on Google to put the side-loaded applications at a disadvantage and confirmed that it will continue to support the current version and the version on Google Play.
"After running Fortnite on the Android platform other than the Google Play store for 18 months, we basically realized:
"Google uses technical and commercial measures such as the terrible download and update of software, repeated security pop-ups, restrictive manufacturer and operator agreements and transactions, and Google public relations that describe third-party software sources as malware, The disadvantage of placing technical and commercial measures outside of Google Play. , And new initiatives like Google Play Protect to completely block software purchased outside the Google Play Store.
"Therefore, we launched Fortnite for Android in the Google Play store. We will also continue to operate the Epic Games App and Fortnite outside of Google Play.
"We hope that Google will revise its policies and business transactions in the near future so that all developers can freely contact and trade with customers on Android and Play Store through open services (including payment services), and these services can compete with Google . A level playing field.
In other Fortnite news, Travis Scott ’s in-game concert will be held tomorrow, and you can bet it will bring a lot of new faces.
