Fortnite's Android installer is now called Epic Games
Epic Games has started implementing a plan to launch its own Android store. The company has changed the name of the Android application with which Fortnite is installed.
Now the installer of the popular game, downloaded as a third-party APK file, is not called Fortnite, but Epic Games. This was announced yesterday, October 24, by the company itself.
The Fortnite Installer on Android is now the Epic Games app!
Use it to download Fortnite on Android and check out all that’s new in #FortniteChapter2 pic.twitter.com/LvqejecaNq
— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) October 24, 2019The Google Play game never came out.
Правда, не считая изменения самой иконки, иных изменений с приложением пока не произошло. С его помощью по-прежнему можно загрузить на Android-устройство только одну игру — Fortnite.
Напомним, на The official position of the head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, on this issue was that:
- the company wants to work as much as possible without intermediaries;
- Google Play as a platform takes too much share from sales;
- plus Google Play sells advertising inventory in search results.
As a result, in August 2018, Epic Games released an APK for Android, which is downloaded from the Internet bypassing Google Play and after unpacking allows you to download Fortnite to your mobile device.
It is unknown exactly how many Android installations Fortnite has today, as well as how much the company earns from the Android version. However, according to official data from Epic Games, in 21 days since the Android release, the game has generated 15 million downloads.
The publisher announced plans to launch the Epic Games Store on Android back in December 2018, when the store was released on PC. Then it was stated that this would happen during 2019. It is assumed that, as in the desktop version, developers will receive 88% of revenue from sales in it, and not 70%, as is customary in the App Store and Google Play.
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