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More than 18 months after launching as a standalone app outside of the Play Store, Epic Games has made the popular Fortnite game available through the Google Play Store for Android today and officially, where Epic Games says Fortnite is now available for download through the official Google store, although it will still be downloadable from the official website of the company.
According to the American gadget website, Epic Games has long avoided the official Google store when it launched the Android version of Fortnite in 2018, and asked users to download the game directly from its website, to avoid losing revenue. that Google gets from in-app purchases.
While the company made it clear that it does so because Google hampers external apps by warning users of potential security issues that may not be present and by describing any app that hasn’t been launched through its store as a malicious app. .
The company said in its statement: “We arrived 18 months after Fortnite was launched outside of the Google Play store that Google is blocking downloadable applications outside of its store through technical and commercial measures, such as frequent security pop-ups, agreements restricted to manufacturers and their description of external applications such as malware. ” And new efforts like Google Play Protect to block applications obtained outside the Google Play Store. “
The statement added: “We hope that Google will review its business policies and transactions in the near future so that all developers have free access to customers and commit to trade with them on Android and Google Play store through open services, including payment services, which can compete on equal terms. ” .
