What you need to know
- As stated in court, Google once offered Epic Games $147 million to launch Fortnite on the Play Store out of fear more developers would leave alongside the company.
- Google deemed it the "contagion effect" and estimated it could lose anywhere from $130 and $250 million without Fornite and maybe $3.6 billion if others followed.
- Google has seemingly stood beside this decision but Epic Games is using this as additional fuel to its argument against its harmful practices.
