Epic v. Google: everything we learned in Fortnite court
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“I don’t see anything crooked about Epic paying Google off to encourage much more robust competition than they’ve allowed in the past,” he says, as the courtroom turns to page 8 of a term sheet that it’s not showing journalists... about Epic and Google’s secret new deal together.
The secret deal includes Unreal Engine, Tim slipped up to reveal, and it includes Epic spending $800 million over six years to purchase some sort of service from Google. (perhaps cloud?) We put about 80 percent into a different vendor [...] every year we’ve decided against Google, in this year we’re deciding to use Google at market rates,” he says. “We view this as a significant transfer of value from Epic to Google.”
He claims there’s not a joint product development deal with Google exactly. “This is Google and Epic each separately building product lines,” he says, after the judge points out a line in the document that reads “Google and Epic will work together.”
