Back in July 2022, the Government of India blocked access to Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI) in the country in accordance with their law. Following the order, the BGMI application was taken down from the Google Play Store and Apple app store. The citizens were unable to download the game from any official source. However, those who already had the games installed on their smartphones were able to play the game without any major interruptions.
But soon after that, the users started reporting server problems across the country. Now, a new piece of information hovering online claims that BGMI could soon return back to the Play Store and App store in the month of January 2023. Soon after the ban, Krafton assured their players that they are in talks with the Government of India to bring back the game as soon as possible. Although, we really did not get to see any official statement regarding the BGMI unban after that.
Pratik “Alpha Clasher” Jogiya and Sohail “Hector” Shaikh, according to AFKGaming, have claimed that BGMI would be returning to Android very soon. In a recent live stream, Alpha Clasher was joined by another player named predatorsasuke, who claimed to work at Google and revealed the tentative debut date of BGMI. “You’d be very thrilled,” he said, “BGMI will launch on Google Play Store on January 15th; this is a preliminary date.” Following this webcast, Hector was asked on one of his recent streams regarding the comeback of BGMI. “The game will return in January, according to someone from Google,” he claimed. I’m not directly aware of this, but I’ve heard it.”
“He is a leader in the Google community. It makes no difference if someone in the gaming community claims that the game will return. That individual stated that the game would return on January 15th. I even asked Thug about it, and he stated he would notify me two weeks before the game’s release,” Hector continued. “So, we’ll notify you two weeks before the game returns.”
Let’s see what really happens after the prescribed timeline. We may finally see the game back again in the country very soon.
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