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| BGMI and PUBG Mobile are two different apps: IT ministry responds to PIL posing for game ban |
Battlegrounds
Mobile India (BGMI) and PUBG Mobile are two different apps, Ministry of
Electronics and knowledge Technology (MeitY) representative N. Samaya Balan
has told Telangana supreme court in response to the PIL (public interest
litigation) asking for the ban on the popular mobile game. For the uninitiated,
the PIL into account was filed by Advocate Anil Stevenson Jangam and
claimed that Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) is the same game as PUBG Mobile
just under a different name. consistent with IANS, the PIL said,
BGMI and therefore the banned application PUBG Mobile are the same game
with only cosmetic changes. The new application Battlegrounds Mobile India is
fraught with all the risks its banned earlier version posed to our children
and adolescents. Therefore, the remake also deserves to be banned.
Essentially, the PIL suggests that Tencent and publisher
Krafton used the front companies to cover the app’s Chinese ties. As PUBG Mobile was banned
in India in 2020 thanks to the app’s ties with Tencent, which is predicated in China, Jangam appealed that Battlegrounds Mobile India
should be banned for the identical reason. However, watching Balan’s response, it seems clear that
Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) won't be banned in India anytime soon.
This news should come as an enormous relief to the Indian gaming community as the
government recently banned over 50 Chinese apps, including the extremely
popular Garena Free Fire, as these apps were deemed to be posing a threat to the safety of the country. Battlegrounds Mobile India
continues to be one among the most popular games in the country thanks to
its battle royale mode and even though domestic games such as FAU-G tried to
present themselves as a substitute to the PUBG Mobile, no game managed to
emulate the identical success till the time BGMI came around. What are your
thoughts on this story and does one think BGMI should be banned in India or not? Let
us know in the comments.
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