Students are arrested just by playing the popular game 'PUBG' in India


by BagoGames

The 100 players gather on one island all at once and fight until the last one. Battle Royal ' Player ANNONES Battle Grounds (PUBG) ' has more than 3 million players a day in the PC version alone. It is a game that gets popular. In response to the surging number of young people who are fascinated by such PUBG, voices of concern about 'PUBG poisoning' are rising in India, mainly with parents and educators, and a local government that legally regulates PUBG appears. It has developed to the situation that the university student is arrested on the suspicion of 'playing PUBG' in the end.

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On 14 March 2019, police in Gujarat , India, arrested 10 college students for playing PUBG delivered for smartphones. According to local media HindustanTimes, in Gujarat, PUBG play was only banned by the ordinance, saying that 'PUBG has a major impact on behavior, dignity and language.' Police officials commented that 'PUBG is highly addictive, all arrested college students were crazy about playing and were not even aware that the police were approaching.' The university student was released on the same day.



Students have criticized the PUBG ban posted at a university in Gujarat, saying that 'the world is trying to ban it even though it loves e-sport'.




It is said that in India, PUBG regulatory theory such as 'PUBG induces violence and prevents students from studying' is gradually spreading mainly to parents and educators. India's leading Hindi newspaper, Navbharat Times, stated in the editorial of March 25, 2019 that 'this game has a dangerous effect' and 'many children have lost their mental balance', the PUBG epidemic Insisted that it would turn the children into manoroki (Psychopath).

In India, which has made remarkable progress in the last 20 years, rural residents who did not have PCs or game consoles now have smartphones. The fierce price competition of telecommunications services has made it possible for everyone to enjoy the Internet on their smartphones. Meanwhile, popular PUBG from all over the world caused a big boom among young people in India. In the southern part of India Hyderabad it was done, in the tournament of PUBG for college students, that from more than 1,000 universities in that there has been 250,000 players registered. One team seems to have won 1.5 million rupees (about 2.4 million yen) as the top player of PUBG.



In countries around the world, including Japan, the industry voluntarily conducts examinations and regulations, such as age-based ratings based on the content of the game. For example, in Japan, the computer entertainment rating organization (CERO) has five rating categories. However, as the game market has just emerged in India, video games have not been sufficiently discussed, and there is no clear rating standard, which has led to the development of legal regulation by the local government. It is not. Also in China, as in India, where digitization is progressing rapidly, parents and politicians are strongly criticized for the 'influence of games on young people', and regulations and freezes are being conducted by the authorities.

Patients of 'PUBG poisoning' visit weekly at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences in Bangalore , a large city in southern India, and they are 11 years old who insist that they want to quit school because they want to be a professional gamer with PUBG. It was said that there were cases in which the parents were taken to the laboratory by their parents.

Following this trend, Tencent, a mobile version of PUBG, has introduced a health reminder function and a six-hour day limit in India. Tencent is an official Twitter mobile account for mobile version PUBG for India 'The mobile version PUBG is a game. It is just entertainment and should be enjoyed in a healthy and responsible way.' 'We have some local governments We were surprised to know that we decided to ban the mobile version of PUBG, and we worked to understand the legal basis of such bans, conducted constructive dialogue with relevant authorities, and hoped to withdraw the ban. Commented on the

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