BGMI removed from Play Store, is it banned?

After the PUBG Mobile game, BGMI is now banned in India.

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Battle Ground Mobile India game has been removed from Google Play Store.

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The surprising thing is that Krafton Inc did not even give any information before doing this.

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Krafton Inc. is the company that launched BGMI in India.

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This was done after the ban of PUBG, because India was its largest player.

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According to a report, PUBG had 180 million players in India.

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It was banned in India due to being a Chinese app.

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But this caused a lot of damage to the company and they got BGMI built.

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And kept its server in India itself and launched it.

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But now gamers are worried due to the sudden disappearance of BGMI from the Play Store.

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Gamers need not worry as there is no official information about the ban.

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