Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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We’re looking at a 2018 blog post from Epic that gives Google credit for contributing on-site engineering resources to make the game work — a blog post that Epic seems to have removed from its website, but you can access the text here.
Grant says he doesn’t know if partner support was “crucial,” as the blog post claims, “but it was very helpful,” he says.
In an old deposition, Grant was asked if Epic compensated Google for any of its services. He had a very diplomatic way of saying “not directly,” saying Fortnite fixes would lead to changes in Unreal Engine that would provide better performance for all mobile games that use the Unreal Engine.
He concluded: “I think it was a win-win as to compensation.”
(Big picture: Google is arguing it helped launch the game, only to watch Fortnite skip its store, twice, to avoid paying Google its cut of the proceeds.)
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