Google Play Store: Tech Giant has confessed that Epic Games was offered the amount of USD 147 Mn to launch its popular game Fortnite on Google Play Store. The deal was positioned by the Google Play’s Vice President, Purnima Kochikar to the Epic Games, but not accepted by the developer. The deal would have witnessed the money dispensed over a three-year duration of “incremental funding” (ending in 2021) to epic games.
“Fortnite’s absence could result in $130 million (up to $250 million) direct revenue loss with Play” and that there could be a “downstream impact of $550 million (up to $3.6 billion) potential revenue loss if broad contagion to other developers”, Google mentioned in a document justifying the deal.
Later the Google Play VP, Kochikar said that the company just wanted developers to choose Play Store.
Epic vs Google Trial
- In the trial, Google made efforts to defend its 30 percent cut on payments for app on Play Store.
- The company also stated that the 30 percent cut for apps on Play Store is a market fee, not a monopoly fee.
- Google Attorney also said that the fee that we charge is the same fee that Epic Games pays to the Nintendo Store, the Steam Store and Xbox Store.
- Steve Allison, head of the Epic Games Store made dispute that 30 percent is the standard fee. Whereas, all the above metioned stores charge 30 percent from the Mega developers like Epic Games.
- Epics Games filed a legal case against Google after the tech giant removed Fortnite from the Google Play Store.
- Fortnite developers are maintaining a stance that Google has a monopolistic control on the Google Play Store for Android devices and it violates both state and federal antitrust laws.
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