To get Epic to release Fortnite on the Play Store, Google promised them $147 million.
Source Theverge.com To get Epic to release Fortnite on the Play Store, Google promised them $147 million. Google feared that a "contagion" of defecting developers might have reduced its Android income by billions. In court, Google acknowledged that Epic received a $147 million offer to release its popular game Fortnite on the Google Play Store for Android smartphones. The agreement, which was authorized and sent to Epic but rejected, according to Google's VP of Play Partnerships Purnima Kochikar, called for the money to be paid to the game publisher in three years' worth of "incremental funding" that would have ended in 2021. The intention was to stop a possible "contagion" of well-known programs avoiding Android's official store and, consequently, Google's hefty in-app purchase costs. 2018 saw the direct release of Fortnite on Android by Epic via its we