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- Epic Games has announced some changes coming in the way it deals with mobile stores.
- The company plans to remove Fortnite and other games from the Samsung Galaxy Store.
- The game will be returning to iOS in countries that are a part of the EU.
One of the new mobile stores Fornite will appear on is the AltStore on iOS in the EU. The developer/publisher notes that it plans to announce support for at least two other third-party stores, but doesn’t say what stores or when the announcement will come. The only information the company offers here is that the announcement will come “soon.”
Epic also revealed that it plans to end distribution partnerships with mobile stores it believes “serve as rent collectors without competing robustly and serving all developers fairly.” The firm claims that it is doing this because of its advocacy “for the rights of stores to exist and compete fairly on iOS and Android.”
It seems that Epic believes Samsung’s Auto Blocker, which prevents sideloading, hinders fair competition. As a result, the company has declared that Fortnite and its other games will be removed from the Galaxy Store in protest.
Fortunately, Galaxy owners who want to add the Fortnite app on their Android phone should be able to do so through alternative means. The Epic Games Store is expected to launch on Android, but no date has been given yet.
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