Full of ambitions, the game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds initiates its transformation to extend its universe and its video game proposals. For this he became PUBG: Battlegrounds and expanded the franchise with new games such as PUBG: New State. However, if the game had any definite eSports goals, its plans may well be thwarted.
For good reason, China, which is launching headlong into a video game control operation to keep its hold on the sector as much as possible, has just tackled one of the biggest Battle Royales of the moment.
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Towards ever more control
This new sanction around the game PUBG comes to fuel the increasingly drastic decisions taken by the Chinese government on the subject of video games. Until recently, many games and players have been the victims of a decision to regulate the practice of young people by limiting it to three hours per week.
But the new blow carried by the Chinese government goes even further by attacking eSport competitions head-on. A situation all the more intriguing as we know the strong popularity of the title within the country and that a certain Tencent holds a small percentage in the capital of the game, in addition to developing the mobile version of the software.
For its part, Peacekeeper Elite, the mobile version of Battle Royale in China, is not affected by these recent bans. The most plausible explanation behind this decision would be the desire to flee to platforms located outside the country, Steam in mind.
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A long-awaited approval
This is not the first time that PUBG has been directly targeted by this type of sanction. Krafton's software suffered a similar ban in India six months ago. However, these new Chinese guidelines do not only focus on PUBG: other games such as Valorant and Apex Legends are also affected.
In itself, the game is still playable in the Middle Kingdom, but eSports competitions are now prohibited because China's regulatory agency, NAPP, has still not approved Krafton's game. after Yibo Zhang, the vice chairman of the eSports committee of the China Culture Management Association.
As a result, as Zhang points out, it's not just the competitions that are affected, but everything that revolves around them, namely event organizers, content creators as well as player teams and many others. The PUBG World Championship is supposed to be held on November 19, but as of now, its future is still uncertain.
