Epic Games Again Tuduh Google Clears Case Evidence Deliberately

Epic Games again accused Google of removing employee chats it deemed to be evidence in a follow-up lawsuit. (Photo: Doc. Epic Games)

JAKARTA - Epic Games again accused Google of removing employee chats it deemed to be evidence in a follow-up lawsuit. The Fortnite game publisher asked the judge to sanction Google for its actions.

A new filing was reported last Friday by senior vice president of public policy Yelp, Luther Lowe.

In the filing, Epic Games accused Google employees of using Google Chat to communicate and intentionally deleted the conversation after 24 hours, which is a default setting.

"Every Google Chat administrator, an app developed by Google, can change this default setting at any time for all guards." write the filing.

"Google never claims otherwise. But Google chose not to change its settings."

Because of this, Epic Games asked the judge to sanction Google and thought the deleted conversation did not benefit its company, or at least Google told the judge that the conversation had been deleted.

Epic Games also suspects why the conversation should be deleted. However, Google says its employees' chats are generally not substantive.

"Any suggestion that we haven't saved and produced a responsive document in this lawsuit is false. We look forward to filing our case in court and we are confident that we will win in this unnecessary discovery dispute," Google explained.

Launching CNET, Sunday, October 16, this is the latest event in a two-year lawsuit that actually started when Epic Games tried to get Google to remove the mobile version of its Fortnite game from the Play Store in 2020.

Shortly thereafter, Epic Games took a similar action as Fortnite was withdrawn from the App Store. However, Apple won the case in September 2021.

In fact, presenting legal action is a great effort by Epic Games to stop paying 30 percent of the sale of accessories and other in-game purchases to the two tech giants.

Image Credit: dock. Epic Games