PUBG Corporation Announces Merger With Krafton Inc.

The ban imposed on the game in India is a topic at its peak since 30th October. PUBG Mobile Officials declaring the termination of all services of the game in India.

After the Government of India banned the game in early September, PUBG Mobile instantly reacted to it by cutting off ties with Tencent Games. It is a Chinese Publisher responsible for the distribution of the game in India. And now, PUBG Corporation has announced that they will be merging the PUBG Mobile division with Krafton. Krafton is The Parent Company of Bluehole who owns the Game.

Krafton will now handle PUBG Mobile and the User’s Data

In an official statement, PUBG Corporation said that they will be merging with Krafton for the PUBG Mobile division. Krafton is a South Korean Game Company that develops, publishes, and distributes games across the globe. The merger will be completed by 2nd December, and all of the user’s data and the actual PUBG Mobile game will be completely handled and managed by Krafton. For which Tencent Games was responsible before the ban.

What does this merger mean to Indian players?

When PUBG Mobile parted ways with Tencent Games, it was a ray of hope for Indian players that the game will be unbanned soon. As the GOI had banned the game due to security reasons where they stated that the game poses a threat to data of Indian users. Now that Tencent Games is no longer associated with the game in India. And the data-management rights being transferred to Krafton – a South Korean company, does bring another sigh of relief for Indian PUBG Mobile players regarding the return on the game in the country. But, it’s not what it looks like.

If bringing the game back was so easy, PUBG would have done this way back. As they would never want to loosen their grip on the biggest market for them around the globe – INDIA. We are still not completely sure that the game was banned by GOI only for data-security reasons as it was managed by a Chinese company.

After the ban, there were several talks about the game being banned for multiple reasons. One of the reasons being hate and violence. The PUBG Mobile game was criticized several times by Indian parents. That the game was making their children short-tempered, lose focus in studies. Some children went out of the way for purchasing skins in the game by stealing parents’ credit cards.

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