Epic Games has caved in to Google and launched Fortnite on the Play Store.
For the longest time, Fortnite developer Epic Games wasn’t concerned about paying a 30% lower to Google by making the game out there on the Play Store, so the corporate merely by no means launched it there.
Fortnite has been out there on Android since then, in fact, however solely by means of Epic’s launcher on Android. Skipping Google Play and asking gamers to side-load the game clearly misplaced the developer plenty of potential visitors, however for some time, it didn’t seem to matter.
Now, 18 months later, Fortnite can now be discovered on the Google Play retailer like most Android apps. Though Epic lastly bit the bullet, the developer just isn’t joyful about it. In an announcement to Polygon, Epic known as out Google for placing side-loaded apps at an obstacle, and confirmed that the present model will proceed to be supported alongside the one on Google Play.
“After 18 months of working Fortnite on Android outdoors of the Google Play Store, we’ve come to a primary realization:
“Google places software program downloadable outdoors of Google Play at an obstacle, by means of technical and enterprise measures similar to scary, repetitive safety pop-ups for downloaded and up to date software program, restrictive producer and service agreements and dealings, Google public relations characterizing third social gathering software program sources as malware, and new efforts similar to Google Play Protect to outright block software program obtained outdoors the Google Play retailer.
“Because of this, we’ve launched Fortnite for Android on the Google Play Store. We’ll proceed to function the Epic Games App and Fortnite outdoors of Google Play, too.
“We hope that Google will revise its insurance policies and enterprise dealings within the close to future, so that every one builders are free to succeed in and interact in commerce with prospects on Android and within the Play Store by means of open companies, together with cost companies, that may compete on a stage taking part in area.
In different Fortnite information, Travis Scott’s in-game concert is going down tomorrow, and you may wager it’s going to deliver a bunch of new skins.
