After PUBG Mobile was banned in India last September and a long campaign to get the game back, Krafton and Tencent games could also face a ban in Bangladesh. And it’s possible that not only PUBG Mobile, but also Garena Free Fire will be on the same boat.
According to a report by Bangladesh-based Daily Manab Zamin, the government is concerned that battle royale games are having a negative impact on children and adolescents, apparently causing game addiction.
Old complaints, new country
According to the report, several government agencies, including the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Education, recommend banning PUBG Mobile and Garena Free Fire from the state.
The issue was also addressed by the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Posts and Communications of Bangladesh, according to a report by AFK Gaming. Together with the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, these two games are “addictive” and we hope that the opposite action will be taken.
Bangladesh’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications feels that “game addiction” is a real problem and needs to be curbed. We even accepted the fact that players could use services such as VPN to circumvent the ban and play the game. And many Indian players do exactly this after the game is banned.
This is untimely news for the Garena Free Fire community in Bangladesh, as the developers recently announced that the Bangladesh game server will be up and running on June 8. Garena has also started pre-registering for new servers.
Complaints that popular battle royale games such as PUBG Mobile and Garena Free Fire are causing “game addiction” among young people are not new to the government, but new to Bangladesh. In countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal and Iran, games have been banned in the past for these reasons. And the term “game addiction” broadly refers to young people who are overly absorbed in the game.
Parents and governments have the opinion that games can cause addiction, but a recent study by Oxford University denied that and even agreed that video games would have a positive impact. It seems.
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