fortnite battle royale was being released on android in august 2018.
fortnite battle royale was being released on android in august 2018.
when is fortnite battle royale being released on android?
august 2018
in march 2018, the organization structural of sart was changed, created a period of several months where no new game licenses were given out. further, moc had made the process of getting these licenses more stringent. this period has significantly impacted tencent, one of the largest publishers of video games for china. in august 2018, tencent was forced to pull sale their version of "monster hunter world" from china as they had not gotten their license for it and the government received complaints about its content. tencent were also blocked on publishing personal computer versions of "playerunknown's battlegrounds" and "fortnite battle royale". the license freezes was reported to have significant effects on those game publishers and developers that rely on chinese sales. in late august 2018, the chinese ministry of education called on the chinese government and sart to also address the growing issue of myopia in children which was attributed to long hours of gaming on small screens like with mobile devices. the ministry of education had asked sart to consider placing restrictions on the number of hours each young player can play a game. on news of this, tencent shares lost 5% of their value, an estimated on the stock market the next day. a further approval route was closed by chinese authorities in october 2018; this "green channel" route that had been in place by august 2018, which allowed a game to have a period of one month on the market for purposes of consumer testing without having full government approval, but which had been seen by game publishers as temporary relief from the current ban. tencent had been planning on distributing and monetizing from "fortnite battle royale" via this method before this route was closed.
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analysis firm superdata estimated that "fortnite battle royale" made over in february 2018, surpassing "battlegrounds"s revenues for the same period of . superdata estimated "fortnite"s revenues over all platforms to exceed for the month of march. by april 2018, superdata estimated that "fortnite battle royale" had surpassed both sales and player count on all platforms over "battlegrounds". the game generated in revenue in april, followed by in may, according to superdata. by july 2018, "fortnite battle royale" had been estimated to have brought in over in revenue. prior to the season 5 start in july 2018, sensor tower estimated that the mobile version of "fortnite battle royale" made over daily; following the launch of season 5, revenues jumped to per day. superdata estimated that "fortnite battle royale" brought in in revenue during 2018, the highest annual revenue of any free-to-play title.
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