Epic Games sues Google and Samsung for auto-blocking Fortnite download

Epic Games revealed today that its filing another anti-competition lawsuit, this time against two major tech companies: Google and Samsung. This time, the complaint is that Samsung’s Auto-Blocker feature prevents users from easily downloading and installing its store. Epic alleges that both companies illegally conspired to make installing the store prohibitively difficult. This comes after Epic’s lengthy legal battle against Google and Apple, accusing both companies of stifling competition on their platforms.

According to Epic’s complaint, Samsung’s Auto-Blocker combined with Google’s software turns the download of the Epic Games Store — which, according to CEO Tim Sweeney, should be a relatively simple procedure — into a 21-step process that involves turning Auto-Blocker off and giving your mobile browser permission to install the app. This, it claims, makes the process so difficult by design that users give up, and therefore won’t install an app that could potentially compete with Google’s Play Store (and Samsung’s Galaxy Store).