BGMI Pulled Down From Playstore and Appstore, Banned in India?

Popular Battle Royale game, BGMI has been pulled down from Google Playstore and App Store in India. The Indian iteration of PUBG mobile, Battle Grounds Mobile India is not available to download from both platforms. The move is pointed toward banning the game from the country by the Indian government. Earlier, the government banned Freefire too. Let’s know more about the BGMI ban in India in this article.

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PUBG and BGMI Background in India

Let’s talk about PUBG mobile first. The game was immensely popular in India and esports rose in fame. Dozens of crimes also occur due to extensive addiction to the game such as theft, murder, fraud, etc in India. The Indian government was speculating on all of these. When the matter came to data protection, it took a serious step and banned PUBG from India in 2020, citing PUBG servers sending data to China.

Losing a huge market, PUBG’s parent company Krafton Inc. of Korea decided to bring back the game to India. After months of development and making a pledge to secure the player’s data, India allowed BGMI to launch on July 2, 2021. The data servers were set in the country for security.