Google Once Had A Plan To Buy Epic Games

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JAKARTA – Applications are the biggest source of revenue for giant companies like Apple and Google. This is because they implement a profit-sharing system of 30 percent of the developers.

But the policy is required on apps that make transactions through their app stores. And of course, when Epic Games decided they were going to leave the app store, Google wasn't too happy. This is because the company's revenue will decrease.

Quoted from Ubergizmo, Tuesday, August 10, surprisingly, it turns out that Google has thought about buying Epic Games. According to Google, it's better than losing profits altogether when Epic leaves the Play Store.

Google felt "threatened" by Epic's plans to distribute Fortnite through other channels they felt that buying it would be one way of dealing with it.

“Google has gone so far as to share its monopoly profits with business partners to secure their deals to avoid competition, has developed a series of internal projects to address the perceived “contagion” of efforts by Epic and others to offer competitive alternatives to consumers and developers, and even have considered purchasing part or all of Epic to quell this threat", said Epic when it decided to leave the Play Store.

However, Google did not acquire Epic, it is not known why Google chose not to acquire Epic and it is not clear whether the information is valid or not.

Likewise, Google is reluctant to respond to this news. Although it is not certain yet, it is certainly very interesting to see Google if it is really interested in making an acquisition of Epic Games.