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PUBG Mobile was banned in India in September, and now its India servers have been shut down by Tencent. Here is a quick summary of what’s happening with PUBG Mobile in India and will it come back?
It has been close two months since PUBG Mobile was banned in India. The Indian government, after the country’s tussle with China on the border, banned a number of Chinese apps in the country. PUBG Mobile was one of them. It was banned on September 2. Now, its India servers have gone offline. They are no longer going to be available, says Tencent, the Chinese company that was managing the game in India. So, what’s going on with PUBG Mobile and India? Here is a quick summary, so far: — As noted by Tencent on October 29 in a Facebook post as well as a forum announcement, the company is ceasing operations of PUBG Mobile India servers and associated services. — What this means in normal words is that Tencent was running game servers for Indian users. While the PUBG Mobile app had been removed from the Google Play Store and the iPhone App Store, people who had the PUBG Mobile installed on their phones could still play the game if they could get past ISP restrictions. So, some people were side-loading the game updates on their phones, or even using the PUBG Mobile APK to install the game on Android phones. Then, depending on ISP blocking they were either using a proxy or VPN to get past it, or in some cases there was no ISP ban on connecting to PUBG servers from India.

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