Recently, Epic Games confirmed that its popular game Fortnite will not be distributed on Android through Google’s Play Store, but be launched on Android using direct downloads from the Epic Games site and the developer will guide the visitors and gamers to its site to download and install the game.

Up to now, although there is no specific information about the release date of the Android version of Fortnite, the announcements of Epic Games still makes a milestone that the video games make a bold departure from the widespread industry practice of using mobile operating system makers like Apple and Google for app distribution. However, with regard to Fortnite on IOS, it is a must for Epic to decide  to distribute the game on the App Store. That is because there is no other methods for iPhone users to download the game easily as iPhone users do not be allowed to download apps that are nor first approved by its internal review processes and distributed through its proprietary marketplace. On the contrary, as for Google and the other more open platforms, Epic owns more free rights to choose whether it will distribute the apps on them or not and just by itself.

According to the words of Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Game, there are two main reasons for why Epic decided to distribute the Android version of Fortnite on its own site rather than through the Google’s Play Store. The reasons are as following:

First of all, as we all know, installing an app from anywhere but the official app store is known as sideloading, and it requires reducing the security on your phone by opening it up to unknown developers -- until or unless you remember to turn it off.

“Why take the security risk?” Tim Sweeney said, “on open platforms like PC, Mac and Android, Epic's goal is to bring its games directly to customers. We believe gamers will benefit from competition among software sources on Android. Competition among services gives consumers lots of great choices and enables the best to succeed based on merit.”

And then, the second reason is financial: Epic does not want to pay Google’s 30 percent cut, especially considering the entire game is funded through in-app purchases. “The 30 percent store tax is a high cost in a world where game developers’70 percent must cover all the cost of developing, operating, and supporting their games,” Sweeney said, “There is a rationale for this on console where there is enormous investment in hardware, often sold below cost, and marketing campaigns in broad partnership with publishers.”

But on mobile platforms that are open, like Android. “30 percent is disproportionate to the cost of the services these stores perform, such as payment processing, download bandwidth, and customer service,” he said. Sweeney added that Epic is “intimately familiar with these costs” from its direct distribution of Fortnite on Mac and PC.

That said, Epic’s move here will surely have a big impact on what app makers decide to do in the future. Fortnite is popular enough — it has more than 125 million registered players as of June — that scores of Android users will likely download the game at launch, even if it requires a little bit more technical know-how than usual. And Epic has the industry clout and technological resources to go it alone in this regard, as it has been doing for years now on the PC platform. Still, that Epic is making such an audacious move with the Android release of Fortnite, which will arguably be its most popular platform, is an eye-popping turn of events for an already unprecedented gaming narrative.
 
Actually, although we say that Epic is making an audacious move with the release of Fortnite’s Android version, it is also a consensus that it is a wise decision to some extent, Android owns more users than Google for Google is not available in China but Android is the most common system in China where own a population of more than 1.4 billion of the world.

In addition, I think it will be more convenient for gamers to download the game Fortnite fron the official site. Besides, while the gamers enter the official site of Fortnite, they can find and receive more useful information about the game Fortnite and the other games of Epic Game. By the way, if you want to buy Cheap Fortnite Items, mmocs.com is a good choice for you with its 100% secure payment and guaranteed refund. What’s more, the discount it provides is unprecedented!