Google would have considered redeeming EPIC to stop the opponent conflict - News - Gamekul

Our colleagues of The Verge noted an interesting information in a recently made public document from the trial - still ongoing - opponent EPIC and Google: The Mountain View giant would have considered a time to redeem EPIC to finish with the accusations of unfair trade practices formulated by the latter.

The opposition between Google and Epic Games about the expenses carried out by the first on the transactions made by the second on the Google Play Platform, it seems, leads the ears of the Great Ponges of the Web Giant. It is learned indeed in this judicial document peeled by our colleagues of The Verge that Google would have conscillate to buy purely and simply EPIC to silence society. "Google went so far as to share the benefits of his monopoly with his trading partners to ensure their agreement to eliminate competition, has developed a series of internal projects to deal with the" contagion "he perceived in EPIC and others' efforts to provide consumers and developers with competitive alternatives, and even considered buying all or part of EPIC to stifle this threat "can it read in it.

An envisaged possibility of the conflict, while Google saw a very bad eye that Epic chooses to market Fortnite on Android devices without going through the Google Play platform. In considering redeeming his opponent, Google wanted to muzzle the criticisms made by the latter as to the rates charged by the platform on each transaction. And although EPIC finally decided to propose its flagship title on the Google platform in 2020, it did not prevent it from continuing to openly criticize the policy. The trial opposing the two firms is still in progress.

Tim Sweeney, CEO and founder of Epic Games, has also reacted to the article of our colleagues on his Twitter account. He said, "We did not know at the time, and because of the court protection order, we only discover now that Google was considering buying EPIC to end our efforts to compete with Google Play He thus publicly surprised, before concluding: "_on do not know if it would have been a negotiation to buy EPIC or a kind of attempt to take hostile control."