Google announced in the last few hours its intention to offer greater support to real-money gamescommonly called RMGor video game titles that allow you to play with real money.
The increase in apps in this sense will obviously be limited according to various local laws, and the first countries to be subjected to the new regulations will be India, Brazil e Mexico starting next June. All this, according to Google, to encourage developers who focus on this market niche.
In addition to these new policies for Play Storethe Mountain View giant seems to want to evaluate an alternative model for commissionsThe subscriptions they in-app purchases. Despite this, Google has not yet revealed more details in this regard.
Do you play real money games on the Play Store? Google is testing new strategies in India and Mexico
Google began working on including real money gaming apps in the Play Store in 2021, with a pilot project launched in India the following year. The latter included new rules regarding age verification and of theuser identity. A similar project was then launched in Mexico in recent months, expanding the categories of games allowed.
According to what was stated by Karan Gambhirdirector of Global Trust & Safety Partnerships at Google “With this policy update, we will also evolve our service fee model for RMG to reflect the value delivered by Google Play and to help support the Android and Play ecosystems. We are working closely with developers to ensure our new approach reflects the unique economics and varied revenue models of developers in this industry“.
In past years, Google has had to face significant problems regarding in-app purchases and, from this point of view, giving greater freedom to real money games could create new, rather thorny scenarios for the technological giant.