Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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    11 months ago

    Why would they sue Google instead of just saying “nah”? Did Google do something to prevent them from having their own in-app purchases from their own app store?

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      11 months ago

      Google and Apple both banned Fortnite from their respective app stores and that’s what caused Epic to sue both of them in the first place.

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        11 months ago

        It’s more that Epic added their own payment system to the app (and offered, IIRC, a roughly 30% decrease in Vbucks price for people who opted to use it instead), Google and Apple both responded by removing the app, and then Epic sued them both and even aired a special presentation in Fortnite. All in the same day. Epic intentionally did this.

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        Well, Epic instigated them to ban the app so they could claim the ban as a tort under competition law.