PUBG BAN IN INDIA

                                       PUBG BAN IN INDIA 

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How Pubg Ban in India has impacted Tencent?

Narendra Modi has recently announced Pubg Ban in India along with 117 other Chinese apps. The main reason for this ban is the border tension that is going on between India and China. Since Pubg has ties with Tencent, which is a Chinese company, the government suspects it to violate privacy.

According to some reports, the India ban has cost the company a whopping $34 billion in market value in just two days. Other games tied to Tencent like Arena of Valor, Chess Run, and Ludo World have also been banned and have contributed to the loss.

Why pubg got banned in India?Pubg Ban in india

The India-China border tension is the main reason for PUBG ban in India. But, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has explained the reason in further detail.

According to them, PUBG Mobile has been banned under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, because “they are engaged in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, the security of the state and public order.”

How has the ban affected Tencent’s market?

After Pubg Ban in India, the per-share price of Tencent has gone down straight from HK $545 to HK $519. This massive change is due to a vast user base that the game had in India. It had over 30 million daily active players and an enormous gaming community revolving around the game.

Pubg Ban has added to the rapidly depleting market share that the company is facing worldwide. Recently, even Wechat was banned in the US, which also affected Tencent a lot.

Affect of the ban on India gaming community

I know it’s a stretch calling a group of mobile gamers playing a single game a gaming community. But, there are a lot of teams that have proudly represented India in e-sports events conducted by Pubg Mobile. The ban now misleads groups like Soul, 8 bit and many others.

Even small streamers whose earnings mainly depended on the game have also been affected. Though there must be a hard reason for this ban I hope everything gets sorted and Pubg comes back to India soon.

Though I was not a hardcore Pubg player, but I used to enjoy the game to relax sometimes. The decision made by the government have affected many, and thus I hope they fix it soon. Are you a hardcore PUBG player? Let us know in the comments below. If you liked our content and found it informative, do like and share with your friends.

PUBG Ban: You Can Still Play The Battle Royale Game | When, Where And How | Full Details Here

PUBG Ban: You Can Still Play The Battle Royale Game | When, Where And How | Full Details Here

a close up of a sign: Credit: PUBG MOBILE Esports© Manmath Nayak | India.com News Desk Credit: PUBG MOBILE Esports New Delhi: Following the directive from the Indian government, Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) has been taken down from both Google Play Store and Apple App Store in India on Friday.

 However, one can still enjoy the game in India, but not on mobile phones or tablets. Gamers in India can continue their games on their PCs. It has been said that the game offers much more impressive graphics on PC. But unlike mobile and tablets, PUBG PC, PUBG PS4 and PUBG Xbox are paid. While PUBG PC will cost around Rs 1,000 on Steam, PUBG PS4 and PUBG Xbox is available at Rs 1,499 and Rs 1,300 respectively. The game can still be played for users who have it installed on their smartphones sans updates.

 PUBG Mobile saw a global revenue gain of $1.3 billion (roughly Rs 9,731 crore) in the first half of this year, bringing its lifetime collection to $3 billion (nearly Rs 22,457 crore) with the highest number of downloads in India which ranks at the top with 175 million installs as people stayed home owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns. PUBG was not banned in India earlier as it is not entirely Chinese. The game has been created and managed by Bluehole which is a South Korean organisation.

Notably, India's move to ban PUBG Mobile and 117 other Chinese apps came after fresh Chinese aggression in the Indian territory at Pangong Tso in eastern Ladakh. So far, the country has banned over 200 Chinese apps, including short video-sharing platform TikTok and UC Browser, owned by Alibaba

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian firm is set to launch a battle royale mobile videogame in partnership with Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, capitalizing on the void left by a ban on Chinese tech firm Tencent’s popular PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG).

 Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar greets visitors as he arrives at a Tata Motors' stall at the India Auto Show 2018 in Greater Noida, India, February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Saumya Khandelwal/File Photo

nCore Games, based in the southern Indian tech hub of Bengaluru, will launch its “Fearless and United: Guards (FAU:G)” game by the end of October, the company’s co-founder Vishal Gondal told Reuters on Friday.

“This game was in the works for some months,” Gondal said. “In fact the first level of the game is based on Galwan Valley.”

Clashes in June between Indian and Chinese troops along a disputed border site in Galwan Valley, high up in the Himalayas, left 20 Indian soldiers dead.

India has since hit Chinese tech firms, which dominate India’s internet economy, with successive app bans. The latest such move on Wednesday outlawed 118 mostly Chinese-origin apps including PUBG, leaving Indian gamers shocked and angry.

nCore’s FAU:G, which means soldier, aims to tap into Indian patriotism and 20% of its net revenues will be given to a state-backed trust that supports the families of soldiers who die on duty, Gondal said.

Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, the son of an army officer who is known to support the cause of Indian soldiers and was key in setting up the trust, also helped with the concept of the game, according to Gondal.

“He (Kumar) came up with the title of the game, FAU:G,” Gondal said, adding that he expected to win 200 million users in a year.

The launch of FAU:G also comes at a time anti-Chinese sentiment is high in India with traders and entrepreneurs echoing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for an “atma-nirbhar” or self-reliant India.

India’s first app ban in June, which prohibited ByteDance-owned TikTok, led to a surge in the use of local video-sharing apps with even media company Zee Entertainment Enterprises launching its own app.