Epic Games Victory Forces Google To Make First Major Change To Play Store

If you pay attention to gaming news at all, you've almost assuredly heard by now that Epic Games won its case against Google last year. Google still wants to take the case to the Supreme Court, but for now, it has to abide by the US District Court and Judge James Donato's judgment, where they decided that Google had engaged in unlawful anti-competitive behavior. Google has now implemented the first of its policy changes demanded by the court in compliance with the judgment.

Posting to the Play Console Help section of its Android Developer Help Center, under "Tax, compliance, & regional requirements," Google dropped "an update regarding Google Play's policies for developers serving users in the US." The ultimate outcome is basically this: Google cannot restrict developers from advising users about alternative stores and the pricing on those stores, and it also can't require developers to ...