Google Says Fortnite’s In-app Buy Swap Was A Breach Of Contract, Sues Epic

Epic Games keeps piling up lawsuits with app store house owners. This time, Google is countersuing Epic for breach of contract.

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Epic signed contracts with each Google and Apple, pledging to use the default cost systems for in-app purchases. As part of its push for extra open fee techniques, although (and to dodge every platform's 30 p.c payment), Epic boldly pushed out updates to the Android and iOS apps that switched the payment processing from the platforms' in-app purchases to Epic's in-home system. Google and Apple each allege this motion was a breach of their app retailer contracts with Epic.

Apple sued and got its ruling last month. Epic was ordered to pay $3.Sixty five million in damages, protecting Apple's lost income from Epic's three months of self-powered funds. Following that ruling, Google wants its missing cash, too, and now it's countersuing Epic, hoping for a related ruling.