Kolkata: Popular online multiplayer shooting game PUBG Mobile is among 118 Chinese apps that have blocked by the Government on Wednesday (September 2). Tencent’s PUBG Mobile ranks among the world’s top five smartphone games with over 734 million downloads. There are close to 50 million active PUBG players in India, according to reports and the game clocks in some 13 million daily users.
Earlier, PUBG Mobile’s Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds has issued a suspension for over 2.2 million accounts and over 1.4 million devices due to the illegal usage to play the game. PUBG in a statement said, “From August 20th to August 27th, 2,273,152 accounts and 1,424,854 devices have been permanently suspended from accessing our game.”
The tweet also reported the hacks that players had used which directed to the suspension of their accounts in PUBG. 32 per cent of the players got prohibited due to usage of x-ray vision or wall-hacks, 27 per cent were banned for the usage of auto-aim or aim-bot while 12 per cent of them got banned for the usage of speed hacks and the rest 22 per cent were restricted for unspecified reasons.
According to a report by Screen Rant, it made a huge difference if the device got prohibited and not the account. The players would be restricted forever from playing with the device that they had used for cheating whereas account restriction could still have worked easily just by the creation of a new one.
The action appeared shortly after Epic Games, PUBG’s largest adversary Fortnite’s developer got eliminated from the App Store due to a lack of cooperation with the policies of the App Store. For users who don’t have Fortnite downloaded in their phones, Fortnite developers won’t be able to deliver new apps or updates to them.
