Free Fire ban rumors float on the market as Indian government bans more than 50 apps

Free Fire ban rumors float on the market as the Indian government bans more than 50 apps.  

Free Fire’s abrupt disappearance of the sudden removal of Free Fire from the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store. Unfortunately, it has given speculation that India’s game may have been restricted. 

But, the company has also not released an official statement to confirm the reason for the detachment.

Free Fire and its enhanced version, Max, were first removed from the Google Play Store. Shortly after, the older version was removed completely from App Store. 

Many users wondered if this was an issue with the software however, ban rumors surfaced after the players were unable to connect to Google Play Store servers during a brief time.

To further fuel the fire, the Indian government has recently removed 50 additional applications to add fuel to the fire. 

Like PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Battle Royale Mobile, mobile battle royale gamers are wondering if is now Free Fire’s turn to play.

Indian government blocks apps and players worried about Free Fire

As per the media report, the Indian government has once again banned mobile applications following a year of banning 116 Chinese applications. 

The applications that were removed were clones of earlier banned applications.

A source exclusive to ET NOW also mentioned that the latest ban covers Chinese applications. 

More than 270 applications on Android as well as iOS platforms were removed from the Indian government to date. However, the full list of apps that have been shut down is yet to be released.

On February 12, players were able to see that the game battle royale was absent from both stores. 

However, the rumors of a ban soon circulated on the internet when mobile gamers experienced issues with servers, and famous content creators such as Ajjubhai and Desi Gamers tweeted, wondering whether the game was removed from the game.

Garena has responded to the issue in an official Facebook post on the battle royale’s official website. 

The game’s creators asked players to provide names of the provider and whether they were making use of WiFi or mobile devices for logging in.