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Activision claims this is false and has submitted documents disproving these claims: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1593344663385153537?...

"Epic is accusing Activision Blizzard’s partner Google of paying us not to compete with them.

To be clear: that's false.

Google never asked us, pressured us, or made us agree not to compete with them - and we’ve already submitted documents and testimony disproving this nonsense."

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At a glance to the doc from the google exec, there was at least some dialogue suggesting that activision would pursue a competing platform if Google didn't give them some sort of agreement. It's not a direct bribe. The money is going to purchase something else. But the topic seems to have been discussed.

It's very interesting to me how a company is able to prove a negative. We are just taking their word for it.

What kind of document proves that they never discussed a thing

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