Google Once Offered Epic Games IDR 2 Trillion For The Sake Of Pulling Fortnite To The Play Store

Google once offered payment to Epic Games before the two faced trial (photo: Doc. Pixabay)

JAKARTA Google once offered Epic Games a fee of 147 million US dollars (Rp 2 trillion). This fund will be given if Epic Games is willing to include the Fortnite game on the Play Store.

This agreement was revealed in a trial between Google and Epic Games. Reportedly, Google offered this deal before the Fornite debuted on the Play Store and after the game was launched on Android.

Google will pay $147 million in stages within three years, from 2018 to 2021. Hopefully, Fornite can become a fixed game on the Play Store without needing to be distributed sideloading.

Sideloading or the process of transferring data from two devices is a troublesome system. However, considering that this game was busy at that time, Google was worried that the game developer parade would leave the Play Store.

Unfortunately, Google did not manage to lobby Epic. This can be seen from the situation between the two who fought each other in court. Until now, it is not known why Epic rejected the agreement offered by Google.

Epic had entered Fortnite into the Play Store, but its actions were a problem as they introduced Google's highly opposed direct payment method.

This problem is getting long, especially Epic is trying to avoid paying purchase discounts on the Play Store. With this case running over the past few months, Epic has suffered many losses.