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While the agreement itself doesn’t seem to state that Riot can’t build its own app store — only that it has to simultaneously ship games on Google Play, keep its games on Google Play, and offer feature parity — Koh’s own emails seem to suggest that Google specifically made the deal to prevent Riot from creating a competing store.
A paragraph from Koh begins: “Our current investment package for Riot was motivated by 2 objectives: 1) have Riot choose Play vs. launching their own Android store.”
Later in the same email: “In my view, it’s because of objective #1 that we’re paying a higher premium in the first year as Riot builds up their business on Play.”
Koh continues to say it was about keeping games on Play, not blocking competing stores.
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