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All PUBG Mobile servers that cater to Indian users will be switched off from October 30, that is today, the company has announced. The PUBG Mobile is already banned on Google Play Store and Apple iOS App Store.

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• Through a Facebook and forum post, PUBG has announced that its game servers will be shut down in India.
• PUBG Mobile is banned and blocked in India.
• Tencent Games will now terminate all services and access for users in India to PUBG Mobile in India.

PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite will no longer work in India from today. The company took to Facebook to announce that it will shut down all access and servers in India. The same message was also posted on the game’s community forum. The gaming app was banned by the Indian government in the second wave of the Chinese app ban over national security concerns. Along with PUBG, 117 other apps were banned in India.

Reporting the end of administrations on Facebook, PUBG Mobile expressed, “Dear Fans, To agree to the interval request of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology dated September 2, 2020, Tencent Games will end all help and access for clients in India to PUBG MOBILE Nordic Map: Livik and PUBG MOBILE Lite (together, “PUBG Mobile”) on October 30, 2020. The rights to distribute PUBG MOBILE in India will be gotten back to the proprietor of the PUBG licensed innovation.”

While clients could presently don’t download the application from the Indian Google Play Store or the Apple iOS App Store, the individuals who as of now have the game introduced were now and again playing the game. With the PUBG India workers closing down, it will be harder for clients to play the game in India. In spite of the fact that we speculate that utilizing a VPN or intermediary will even now let a few clients sidestep the limitations.

“Ensuring client information has consistently been the first concern and we have consistently conformed to material information security laws and guidelines in India. All clients’ ongoing interaction data is handled in a straightforward way as uncovered in our security strategy. We profoundly lament this result, and genuinely thank you for your help and love for PUBG MOBILE in India,” Tencent composed on the Facebook page.

Following the boycott, PUBG Corporation had removed the distributing privileges of the game from the Chinese organization, Tencent.

Prominently, while PUBG versatile may be gone, PUBG is as yet accessible for clients. This is on the grounds that PUBG Mobile is the versatile adaptation of the PUBG game, which was initially evolved by PUBG Corporation, a South Korean gaming organization. In any case, PUBG Mobile went to the shore when the Chinese organization Tencent Games purchased a 1.5 percent stake in Bluehole Studio. This was the variant that was restricted by the Indian government because of its association with China however not the PC rendition of the portable gaming application.

In the first influx of Chinese application boycott in Quite a while, the administration had restricted TikTok and 58 different applications in India. The applications were first taken out from the application stores and afterward impeded on the organizations. This implied that individuals could presently don’t download TikTok at first and afterward the clients that previously had the application, couldn’t utilize the application any longer after it was obstructed by workers. Aside from TikTok, well-known applications including Shareit, WeChat, CamScanner, UC Browser were likewise prohibited during the first flood of Chinese applications boycott in Quite a while.