Google sued by WinZo for its new Play Store policy allowing only fantasy sports, rummy games
Homegrown vernacular social gaming platform WinZO Games on Tuesday said it has challenged Google‘s recent policy in the Delhi High Court for the selective inclusion of only daily fantasy sports (DFS) and Rummy games on its Play Store that leaves out several skill gaming platforms and local developers. WinZO has sought restraint from the court against Google from implementing the “arbitrary classification which will impact the reputation of its business.” Also Read — Google Play Store will show you app reviews based on the device that you are using
WinZO is among industry players, such as Mobile Premier League (MPL) and Zupee, who have called the policy arbitrary, unfair and restrictive. Saumya Singh Rathore, Co-founder, WinZO Games told IANS that there is no evaluation of the impact that is likely to result from such a clearly discriminatory and arbitrary classification by Google Play. Also Read — How to pre-register games on Play Store for Android
“We fail to understand how Google is being permitted to select that within a set of legal/legitimate businesses, only DFS and Rummy will be onboarded and the other Skill Games, excluded,” he stressed. Google was yet to reach on the WinZO lawsuit. Also Read — This new mini-game from Cyberpunk 2077 is available for free on Android, iOS
Google is set to run a pilot test for the local developers to distribute their daily fantasy sports (DFS) and rummy games apps on Play Store in India, as e-sports become big in the country. Starting September 28, Play Store will begin a limited-time pilot allowing for the distribution of DFS and Rummy apps to users in India by developers incorporated in India.
The pilot programme will run from September 28, 2022 until September 28, 2023. According to
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