South Koren recreation developer Krafton Inc might face troubles with its deliberate launch of a PUBG Mobile substitute in India. Arunachal Pradesh Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), Ninong Ering, wrote the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as we speak, asking the federal government to cease the corporate from launching the brand new recreation.
The letter, which he additionally posted on Twitter, alleges that the corporate’s plan to launch a brand new model of the sport is an effort to “sidestep” Indian laws and “deceive the government and Indian citizens”. Krafton had introduced plans to launch a recreation referred to as Battlegrounds Mobile India late final month, which will probably be out there solely in India, and can exchange the PUBG Mobile, which the federal government banned final yr. Krafton did not reply to an e-mail searching for remark at press time.
“Sir, this can be a mere phantasm and a trick to relaunch the identical recreation with minor modifications and accumulate consumer information of tens of millions of our residents, together with our youngsters and switch it to overseas firms and the Chinese authorities,” the letter states. “Tencent is currently the second-largest stakeholder and has a 15.5% stake in Krafton. Its stake was only 10% in 2018 and it may soon have a majority stake and control,” he added.
Krafton had additionally mentioned that it will make investments $100 million in India, to arrange a staff in Bangalore and put money into the nation’s e-sports ecosystem. To this, Ering says that “nearly all” of Krafton’s Indian employees, including its senior management team, are former Tencent employees, who the company hired in December last year. “Moreover, as on May 20, the Google Playstore app package itself has pubg.imobile in its url for the pre-registration of Battleground game,” the letter states.
Ering additionally alleged that Nodwin Gaming, an Indian firm that Krafton invested in not too long ago, has “ongoing ties” with Tencent and is predicted to host the brand new recreation on its servers. Nodwin Gaming didn’t touch upon the matter.
The South Korean recreation maker had introduced the title of its new recreation earlier this month. The firm mentioned the brand new recreation could be referred to as Battlegrounds Mobile India and although it hasn’t introduced an actual launch date but, it has began accepting pre-registrations for it by way of the Google Play Store.
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