We’ll continue to operate the Epic Games App and Fortnite outside of Google Play, too. Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and business measures such as scary, repetitive security pop-ups for downloaded and updated software, restrictive manufacturer and carrier agreements and dealings, Google public relations characterizing third party software sources as malware, and new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store.īecause of this, we’ve launched Fortnite for Android on the Google Play Store. Google’s security protections on Android often bring up pop-ups recommending sideloaded apps to be removed or, in some cases, even blocking their installation.Įpic Games provided the following statement on Fortnite’s arrival on the Play Store to Polygon:Īfter 18 months of operating Fortnite on Android outside of the Google Play Store, we’ve come to a basic realization:
Now, a few months later, Fortnite is available on the Google Play Store.Įpic Games says that it has come to the “basic realization” that it’s very difficult to distribute an app on Android outside of the Play Store. In a previous interview, Epic called Google’s practice of requiring Play Store billing “illegal” and that it had asked Google to remove that “expectation.” Google did not do that, so Epic stubbornly kept distributing the app independently as an APK. That decision was made over Google’s 30% cut for distribution that Epic Games called “illegal.” Well, now Fortnite for Android has gone live on the Play Store, 30% cut and all.Įarlier this year, we reported that Epic Games had submitted Fortnite to the Play Store in the hopes that Google would give them an exception to the 30% cut. Fortnite has been one of the most popular video games in the world for a while now, but its Android version has only been distributed through the company’s own website.
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