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PlayerUnknown's battlefields are perhaps one of the biggest games in the world, but its parent company, Tencent, has decided to interrupt the game in China. Although the country is a huge market – 70 million Chinese customers have played PUBG Mobile every day – Tencent has ended the game and replaced it with a more patriotic alternative.
Tencent's reasoning is the Chinese government's refusal to authorize in-app purchases in PUBG Mobile. In response, the replacement, Game for Peace, was transformed by socialists to comply with strict government regulations. According to Reuters, Tencent described Game for Peace as a tactical shooter that "pays tribute to the blue sky warriors who protect the airspace of our country," in reference to the Chinese air force.
The changes include the absence of blood and blood in Game for Peace, and the characters sit and say goodbye when they are killed. However, Cui Chenyu, an analyst, said Game for Peace was "almost exactly the same" as PUBG. "The gameplay, the background, the graphics and the characters, they are almost the same," she said. In addition, players indicated that their progress had been transferred from PUBG to Game for Peace.
Tencent, meanwhile, says that both games belong to "very different genres". The problem is further complicated because, although Tencent is a shareholder of PUBG's publisher, Krafton (formerly Bluehole), and holds the exclusive license to publish PUBG in China, it does not hold the PUBG brand. A spokesman for Krafton told Reuters that the editor was reviewing PUBG's status in China and declined to comment further.
PUBG Mobile was launched in the west in 2018 and will soon be joined by another major royal battle game: EA has announced the advent of Apex Legends on mobile.
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