Today, the safest and most reliable way to install games on Android is through the Play Store. We can find third-party applications outside the Play Store, applications that mostly offer us features that we will never find in the Play Store due to legal issues.
This problem does not have it the Apple App Store, since is the only way to install applications as long as the device is not jailbroken. That could change shortly, if Epic Games' plans to launch an Android app are finally confirmed.
The head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, has stated in an interview that he plans to launch the Epic Games Store on Android. Relations between the two companies have not been as good as both companies would have liked, because Epic has never been willing to let Google keep 30% of all purchases They are done through the applications and games available in the your application store.
We would like to bring the [Epic Games] Store to iOS in the future, and we will bring it to Android. We think it's a good way to help the industry move forward and it's another way that Epic, as a game developer, has built an audience around Fortnite and learned how to run a distribution platform on PC and Android ...
A couple of months ago, Epic Games announced the launch of Fortnite on the Play Store, a movement aimed at trying to reach a greater number of people, mainly those who did not intend to activate the installation of applications from unknown sources on your terminal.
Unlike the Epic Games version for iOS, where purchases are more expensive that in the game itself for PC and other platforms, in Android all purchases cost the same as in the rest of the platforms where this title is available.
Epic Games Store on Android
Sweeney has not elaborated on Epic's idea to launch its app store on Android. If you want to offer an application similar to Steam, both on iOS and Android, where you can buy games directly without having to use the PC application I just can't make sense of it.
However, if what Epic Games wants is offer applications and games for Android from their own platform, the thing changes, since it could become an excellent alternative to the Play Store, as long as it does not depend on it, that is, that the application is not available in the Play Store, since all purchases will be taxed with the 30 Corresponding% plus commission left by Epic.
But of course, most likely the application face the same security issues that Fortnite already experiences while the application was only available outside the Play Store. The intentions of Epic Games with this application store we do not know today, but it will be interesting to see how this project evolves and if we are really going to be able to access a new catalog of Android games at more interesting prices.
