Can Battlegrounds Mobile India be Banned?
PUBG Mobile applied for an initial public offering in South Korea. The filings has revealed that China’s Tencent is Krafton’s second largest shareholder with a 15.5 percent stake through an investment company.
According to Reuters, Krafton founder Chang Byung-gyu is the largest shareholder with a 16.4 percent stake as of end-2020. Tencent’s stake may pose a threat to a potential PUBG Mobile unban.
There seems to be a number of ties between Battlegrounds Mobile India and PUBG Mobile despite Krafton consciously not mentioning the latter anywhere on its website.
Sharing his thoughts on the current situation and the way out, Manav Sethi, Chief Marketing Officer Octro Inc, a mobile gaming company said, "Indian government should wait for the game to be launched but banning even before the game launches will be a considerably wrong move."
Whether these similarities to PUBG Mobile will lead to a Battlegrounds Mobile India ban remains to be seen. However, It will be interesting to see if the Indian government replies to the MLA’s concerns.
He said, "When PUBG was banned, along with the before-said reasons it was also found to be too addictive, did not care about the users health, and also propagating violence. However PUBG India is yet to be launched. Only because Tencent is an investor in Krafton, or Nodwin which has a team tech team in Pakistan does not raise any substantial question of national security."
Muley believes that many Indian companies receive investments from Tencent and many Indian entities do business with Pakistan. Using similar features or maps of PUBG does not make the game any kind of threat either. Storing data on foreign servers is very common business practise and is mainly a business decisions.
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