For example, last week Epic admitted that after all these years, it still hasn’t made a dime off its PC-based Epic Games Store. ![]() And now Epic is waging a similar legal battle against Google.Īs is usually the case, however, the most interesting parts of this court battle haven’t involved the main issue of the app store monopoly, but all the small bits of corporate scuttlebutt and secret data revealed during the trial. That triggered a lawsuit from Epic and led to a protracted 2021 legal fight against Apple over how Apple ran its app store, the monopoly it may have had, and the fees it charged app developers on in-app purchases. This violated Apple and Google policies Epic agreed to and quickly led to both companies removing Fortnite from their respective mobile phone app stores. ![]() ![]() For those just tuning in or needing a refresher, back in 2020, Epic added an option to Fortnite on mobile that let players buy Fortnite’s in-game V-Bucks currency directly from the company at a discount, bypassing both Apple’s and Google’s app store fees.
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