Circumventing
the Google Play store wasn’t exactly a gamble for Epic, given the fact that
Fortnite is essentially a license to print money. But even by its own
standards, the game is posting some impressive numbers three weeks after
hitting Android.
In a blog
post this week, Epic noted that the wildly popular sandbox survival game hit 23
million players on Google’s mobile operating system, spread out across 15
million APK installs. Those numbers are arriving 21 days after the title
launched on the OS.
This, like
every other piece of Fortnite news, means big bucks for Epic. That’s especially
the case here, however, given that the launch means the gaming company is
cutting Google’s 30 percent take out of the equation.
Along with
the numbers, Epic also highlighted some of its efforts to tackle potential
malware threats — an added issue given that the game isn’t distributed through
Google’s official channel.
“So far,
Epic has instigated action on 47 unauthorized “Fortnite for Android’ websites,”
the company writes, “many of which appear to be run by the same bad actors. We
continue to police the situation with a goal of taking them offline, or restricting
access by leveraging Epic’s connection to a network of anti-fraud partners.”
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