Epic Games has accused Samsung of making it deliberately difficult for users to download its popular video game, Fortnite, on specific Samsung mobile devices. According to a legal complaint expected to be filed on Monday, Epic alleges that the process to download the game involves 21 steps, including multiple security warnings and device settings modification.

This, according to Epic, is cumbersome and has led to half of the users aborting the download before completion. The gaming company argued that the problem here is with Samsung's Auto Blocker feature, which Samsung automatically activates in all new Samsung products. The Auto Blocker feature, which blocks the application installations from sources other than approved ones in order to prevent malicious activities, was unfairly affecting the Fortnite downloads, Epic argued, and violating competition laws.

It's baseless," a Samsung representative said. The company plans to "vigorously contest" the claims. In a follow-up statement, the company continued, "As always, we give customers the flexibility to turn the Auto Blocker off, and, of course, the company remains committed to ensuring consumers' security and privacy as a core tenet.".

Samsung, however, said that it promotes competition in the market, provides more choice to consumers, and competes fairly. "The features we've built into our devices are designed with security, privacy, and user control in mind," it said in a statement.

Fortnite is not in Google Play or Samsung's App store and has to be downloaded off Epic's. Auto Blocker then creates an alert because the warnings pop when the app is legitimate, according to Epic, a fact that Google and Samsung are said to be fully aware of as well - Fortnite is an absolutely safe app.

The latest legal battle Epic is involved in comes after previous disputes with Google and Apple regarding their app store practices. The company recently won a court case against Google over its alleged app store monopoly. Despite these challenges, Epic remains committed to pushing for a fairer playing field for developers.

Epic Game Studios CEO Tim Sweeney says the lawsuit frustrates him since he said the company would have made much more money from Apple if the two were not fighting against each other in court. But he said that his call for fairness for every developer is still an imperative one and that Epic would do well to win, saying that Epic is going to force Samsung to bring into place a whitelist regime under which legitimate third party developers of apps will pass around the Auto Blocker.