Google made an unexpected move; It announced that it will reduce fees from non-game developers on the Play Store and allow competing payment methods.
You may remember that recently, Apple made a historic decision and allowed the use of alternative payment methods for the first time. An unexpected move came from the Play Store, which is the biggest competitor to Apple’s App Store.
Google, To comply with European Union technology rules announced its new decisions. The new changes include a number of changes, such as lowering fees from application developers and allowing the use of competing payment systems.
Developer fees will be reduced from 15 percent to 12 percent
Alternative payment methods and fees from developers have been a headache for both Google and Apple for a while. In fact, Apple was sued with Epic Games for this reason, and both giants continued to persist in this regard. However, it seems that Google has managed to break this stubbornness a little bit. With these new decisions by Google, the fees received from developers outside the game from 15% to 12% has been decided.
These decisions, taken in order to comply with the European Union technology laws, also use competitor payment methods in sales. also allows. Of course, for this, as per EU laws, Google is given a percentage of their global turnover. up to 10 fines they need to pay.
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Google made this decision. “This will mean that developers of non-game apps can offer their users in the EEA an alternative to Google Play’s billing system when paying for digital content and services.” explained in his words. The new regulation will only be for European Economic Area (EEA) users. These countries include 27 EU member states, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Turkey is not in this group.