{"id":39463,"date":"2018-08-10T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/324246"},"modified":"2018-08-10T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T19:37:00","slug":"google-play-searches-now-warn-that-fortnite-isnt-hosted-in-the-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/10\/google-play-searches-now-warn-that-fortnite-isnt-hosted-in-the-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Play searches now warn that Fortnite isn&#8217;t hosted in the store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added a small disclosure at the top of Google Play searches for <em>Fortnite<\/em>, cautioning players that the game they\u2019re probably searching for isn\u2019t hosted on Google Play.<\/p>\n<p>The message, a new addition since Epic launched <em>Fortnite<\/em> on select Android devices this week, simply informs android users that the specific title \u201cis not available on Google Play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That text originally came with a slight misspelling of the game\u2019s name, as spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/08\/10\/google-isnt-sure-how-to-spell-fortnite-battle-royale\/\">TechCrunch<\/a>, but doesn\u2019t do much to point players toward the place they can actually download the game: Epic Games\u2019 own website. However, the small message likely also serves to caution players away from any unsanctioned <em>Fortnite<\/em> clones that could appear on the store <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/323820\/Google_not_at_fault_for_clones_and_unsanctioned_apps_on_Google_Play_says_Epic_CEO.php\">despite Google\u2019s best efforts<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The developer announced its decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/323689\/Epic_Games_is_bypassing_the_Google_Play_Store_for_Fortnites_Android_release.php\">completely bypass the Google Play Store<\/a> last week, noting at the time that it was both one of the advantages of an open platform like Android and that the company didn\u2019t believe the services provided by Google Play justified the 30 percent cut Google would receive of <em>Fortnite<\/em>\u2019s Android revenue.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fortnite<\/em> itself launched yesterday on select Samsung Android phones and will roll out for all capable Android devices on August 12. The game notably dropped on iOS quite some time ago through Apple\u2019s official App Store, and, according to one analyst, brings in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/322796\/Analyst_Fortnite_now_rakes_in_2_million_per_day_on_iOS_alone.php\">an average of $2 million in revenue a day<\/a> on just that one platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added a small disclosure at the top of Google Play searches for Fortnite, cautioning players that the game they\u2019re probably searching for isn\u2019t hosted on Google Play. The message, a new addition since Epic launched Fortnite on select Android devices this week, simply informs android users that the specific title \u201cis not available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}