24 Aug 2022 10:24 AM GMT
Four of BGMI’s Esport tournaments are set to take place in 2022. (Image Credit: battlegroundsmobilein_official)
After PUBG Mobile‘s rebranded version in India, the Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), was earlier banned in the country, its in-game battle-pass has now vanished from the app. Several users who could still access the game, even after it was banned, won’t be able to purchase items and perks within the app any more. Users trying to download the in-game currency are shown “purchase failed, item not found. Please try later” prompt.
The development will severely affect the gaming experience of players, especially those that use it regularly.
The developer, Krafton, has not yet confirmed the game’s return in the country, but the development sure does dent hopes of its return.
In July, BGMI was taken off the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. The app, which was PUBG Mobile‘s reentry into India a year ago, after being banned by the Indian government, met the same fate again.
The game, developed by South Korea-based developer Krafton, had hit 5 million downloads in the first few hours of its launch in 2020, and it crossed 30 million downloads within the first week of launch.
“On receipt of the order, following established process, we have notified the affected developer and have blocked access to the app that remained available on the Play Store in India,” said a Google statement to the media, confirming that the app was blocked on the government’s request.
PUBG Mobile had an unceremonious exit in 2020 after the Government of India decided to ban it alongside 117 other Chinese applications for being a threat to national security.
Since then, the developers tried to make a comeback into the Indian market, transferring the app’s ownership from China’s Tencent games to South Korea’s Krafton in the process.
While the gameplay and basics of the game remained the same upon its return, the developers tailored and tinkered with a few features (privacy management, data transfer, child safety features etc) to ensure that the game doesn’t come in the firing line again.
But clearly, the changes didn’t shield it for long.
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