Fortnite is coming soon on Android, but we have bad news – BGR

Available on virtually any platform that counts outside of Android, Fortnite is a monster with players right now. The game should soon start on Android, but the word on the street is that it could be a Galaxy Note 9 exclusive for the first 30 days. But we have news even worse than that, and it could even be a case breaker for some Android users.

After tinkering with the source code of the Fortnite Mobile page, xda-developers discovered that Epic Games plans to teach users how to download and install the game on their Android smartphone. Unfortunately, the instructions do not consist of a simple link to the Google Play Store that would let people download the game.

Instead, users learn to download the app to a device, which means installing the game. Application directly from a browser. . Redditor thesbros was able to display the pictures that would guide anyone through the installation.

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This genre of procedure implies that Epic does not intend to provide the game via the Google Play store.

Why Epic do such a thing? We will have to wait and see if the Google App Store Bypbad is really what Epic ends up doing. But this is certainly not good news for Android users. Especially if Epic does it out of greed, to avoid paying the 30% fee for in-app purchases at Google.

More importantly, allowing apps on your phone from other sources is a bad idea as it opens the door to unwanted ones. consequences. Many people may be tech savvy enough to do this, but not all, especially some children. Also, if that is the way to install Fortnite on Android, you can bet your V-Bucks that hackers will want to create fake Fortnite games for Android to try to trick unsuspecting users into downloading software on their devices.

iPhone allows you to install Fortnite directly from the App Store, which means that Epic pays 30% to Apple on its platform. If all goes well, Epic will launch the game via the Google Play Store eventually, and there will be a reasonable explanation for this discovery.