Google May Have Considered Buying Epic Games

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Image: Epic Games



Newly unsealed court documents show that Google may have considered buying Epic Games. The potential buyout would’ve been to address what has been labeled as “contagion” from the Epic Games Store (EGS), and others, in providing the means for sales other than using the Google Play store. Similar strategies have been employed when EGS allowed in-app purchases that circumvented the Apple app store, resulting in it being banned there. These new claims indicate Google could’ve been planning something more aggressive than the current legal confrontation between the two.



This was unbeknownst to us at the time, and because of the court’s protective order we’re just finding out now about Google’s consideration of buying Epic to shut down our efforts to compete with Google...

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[Uvilla]

Probably should have

 

[Stoly]

Probably should have

Naah, would have dropped it after a while

 

[Grimlakin]

Not surprised.

 

[Brian_B]

I would imagine the only reason it fell through is because Tencent owns a big share of Epic and probably wouldn't have allowed the sale to have gone though.