Is Kabam going to abandon the whole Chinese market?

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  Kirklin Posts: 149 ★

  November 2021

  It's not kabam doing.

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  Lovejoy72 Posts: 1,858 ★★★★

  November 2021

  Indeed, considering kabam is owned by Netmarble, I’m fairly certain Netmarble would not allow them to leave the worlds largest market. This is something from the other side of the equation.

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  BitterSteel Posts: 9,254 ★★★★★

  November 2021

  JustingBonoko said:

  it's due to CCP banning Netmarble from local market

  That damn content creator program

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  DNA3000 Posts: 18,764 Guardian

  November 2021

  JustingBonoko said:

  it's due to CCP banning Netmarble from local market

  I haven't been following this closely, but I suspect this is related to the issue of China requiring game operators to obtain government licenses to sell in China, and the Chinese government refusing to grant such licenses to any Korean game operator due to some political retaliation move. I don't know what the significance of the December 4 date is, but it might be a deadline Apple is enforcing on Netmarble to be legally licensed for that market or they cannot continue to allow updates to be served by the app stores.

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  Colinwhitworth69 Posts: 7,193 ★★★★★

  November 2021

  This is a huge issue. How many players will Kabam lose?

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  Doctorwho13 Posts: 596 ★★★

  November 2021

  Colinwhitworth69 said:

  This is a huge issue. How many players will Kabam lose?

  and bots and hackers?
  
  

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  Sw0rdMaster Posts: 1,741 ★★★★

  November 2021

  ASUN said:

  
  
  It says” all Chinese players won’t be able to log in the game from 4th Dec due to IOS upgrade”
  Can anyone tell me the real reason behind this?

  Would it mean Android users are not affected?

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  Kabam Miike Posts: 8,258

  November 2021

  Hey there,
  
  While we work on some technical updates that need to be made to comply with region-specific rules and regulations, we need to temporarily take down the game. We are working to return the game to all of our iOS players in China as fast as we can, but do not have any more information to share at this time.

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