Tech View: Fortnite has learned there’s no messing with the Play Store
After 18 months’ refusal to put its hit game on Google’s distribution platform – on grounds that the web giant takes too high a percentage – Epic Games has given in
Google claimed triumph last week in an epic battle that had lasted a full 18 months. Fortnite is finally on the Play Store; its creator, Epic Games, eventually relented after holding out much longer than initially expected.
Epic’s reason for not playing ball with Google directly was simple: it didn’t like that Google takes 30 per cent of payments made on games downloaded through the Play Store. Epic felt that if it was only getting 70...
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