Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launching an app store

Re:Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launc... by Crash0v3rid3 on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:43PM (#33665798)

Activision claims this is false and has submitted documents disproving these claims: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1593344663385153537?...

"Epic is accusing Activision Blizzard’s partner Google of paying us not to compete with them.

To be clear: that's false.

Google never asked us, pressured us, or made us agree not to compete with them - and we’ve already submitted documents and testimony disproving this nonsense."

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Re:Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launc... by spywaregorilla on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:59PM (#33665923)

At a glance to the doc from the google exec, there was at least some dialogue suggesting that activision would pursue a competing platform if Google didn't give them some sort of agreement. It's not a direct bribe. The money is going to purchase something else. But the topic seems to have been discussed.

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Re:Epic says Google paid $360M to keep Activision from launc... by killingtime74 on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:32AM (#33667605)

It's very interesting to me how a company is able to prove a negative. We are just taking their word for it.

What kind of document proves that they never discussed a thing

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