Over the past month, there has been a lot of excitement for the PUBG Mobile game relaunch. After being banned for close to three months in the wake of India-China tensions in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley, PUBG Corporation announced that PUBG Mobile India would soon be relaunched. With plenty of teasers and speculation on social media, the game was expected to launch soon. However, that has not happened and the main reason is that there has been no official notification from the Central Government. More specifically, there has been no authorization from MEITY.
What is MEITY? MEITY stands for Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. This was the Ministry that had banned more than 100 Chinese apps. According to a report from InsideSport, there is no permission yet. The MEITY official quoted by Inside Sport said there has been no change in the stance taken in September at this stage.
However, in recent reports, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs gave the approval for the registration of PUBG India Private Limited company. According to a report by Gadgets Now, PUBG India private limited is listed on the website of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. It has a corporate identity number of U72900KA2020FTC141285, which suggests that PUBG Mobile India is one step away from making a big comeback. The corporate office is located at Tata Silk Farm in Bangalore. However, that is not enough.
“Any prohibited entity cannot simply operate by floating a new company. Even Tik Tok or anyone else can do that. They will have to obtain permits from MEITY to once again operate in India, ”the MEITY official told InsideSport.
PUBG Mobile India different from global
What will be different for PUBG Mobile in India compared to the global version? Well, it starts directly from the name. The name of the game in India will be PUBG Mobile India, while in the global market, it will only be PUBG Mobile. There are reportedly changes to the gameplay of the Indian market. Apparently, the developers have revealed that too much bloodshed will not be shown and that the dresses and characters will be in keeping with Indian sensibilities.
According to various reports, KRAFTON, which is a collective of independent game development teams responsible for various entertainment properties such as PUBG and TERA, has partnered with Microsoft Azure.
How does this development affect PUBG Mobile India? It’s a breakthrough on the security front. Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft to build, test, deploy, and manage applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers. Microsoft Azure manages computing and resource storage in Microsoft data centers and this is what primarily keeps data, such as servers and user information, safe.
Without a Chinese entity in PUBG Mobile India, it seems like it might be a matter of time before permission is granted, but the government bureaucracy could operate in its own way even in modern times.
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