South Koren recreation developer Krafton Inc might face troubles with its deliberate launch of a PUBG Cellular substitute in India. Arunachal Pradesh Member of Legislative Meeting (MLA), Ninong Ering, wrote the Prime Minister Narendra Modi right this moment, asking the federal government to cease the corporate from launching the brand new recreation.
The letter, which he additionally posted on Twitter, alleges that the corporate’s plan to launch a brand new model of the sport is an effort to “sidestep” Indian legal guidelines and “deceive the federal government and Indian residents”. Krafton had introduced plans to launch a recreation known as Battlegrounds Cellular India late final month, which might be out there solely in India, and can exchange the PUBG Cellular, which the federal government banned final 12 months. Krafton did not reply to an electronic mail looking for remark at press time.
“Sir, this can be a mere phantasm and a trick to relaunch the identical recreation with minor modifications and acquire person information of tens of millions of our residents, together with our kids and switch it to international firms and the Chinese language authorities,” the letter states. “Tencent is at present the second-largest stakeholder and has a 15.5% stake in Krafton. Its stake was solely 10% in 2018 and it might quickly have a majority stake and management,” he added.
Krafton had additionally stated that it will make investments $100 million in India, to arrange a group in Bangalore and put money into the nation’s e-sports ecosystem. To this, Ering says that “nearly all” of Krafton’s Indian workers, together with its senior administration group, are former Tencent workers, who the corporate employed in December final 12 months. “Furthermore, as on Could 20, the Google Playstore app package deal itself has pubg.imobile in its url for the pre-registration of Battleground recreation,” the letter states.
Ering additionally alleged that Nodwin Gaming, an Indian firm that Krafton invested in not too long ago, has “ongoing ties” with Tencent and is predicted to host the brand new recreation on its servers. Nodwin Gaming didn’t touch upon the matter.
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The South Korean recreation maker had introduced the title of its new recreation earlier this month. The corporate stated the brand new recreation can be known as Battlegrounds Cellular India and although it hasn’t introduced a precise launch date but, it has began accepting pre-registrations for it through the Google Play Retailer.
