{"id":133091,"date":"2019-05-08T23:35:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=244278"},"modified":"2019-05-08T23:35:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:35:36","slug":"tencent-plays-safe-over-china-pubg-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/08\/tencent-plays-safe-over-china-pubg-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent plays safe over China PUBG launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tChinese web giant Tencent ditched a plan for a domestic launch of PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds (PUBG), one of its most popular global titles, apparently because of a regulatory crackdown [1], Financial Times (FT) reported.<\/p>\n<p>A message posted on the game&#8217;s official social media account stated the game had been removed for maintenance, and directed users to instead download a new multiplayer battle title called Heping Jingying, or\u00a0Elite Force for Peace.<\/p>\n<p>Sensor Tower reported PUBG was downloaded 11 million times worldwide in March 2019 and generated $23 million in revenue. However, none of this money came from China, which in addition to being Tencent\u2019s home market is the biggest gaming market in the world.<\/p>\n<p>This is because regulation in country has meant Tencent cannot sell subscriptions or in-app purchases for PUBG and other titles.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of the country\u2019s strategy to control the number of new online games published following concerns about\u00a0an\u00a0increase in eye problems among the country\u2019s young people.<\/p>\n<p>Tencent did get approval for a few games in January, but it seems PUBG was not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>While Elite Force for Peace received approval for in-app purchases, those aged under 16-years cannot register to play. The game is described as having a patriotic theme: FT cited Jefferies analyst Karen Chan as stating the game is &#8220;a tribute to the People\u2019s Liberation Army Air Force&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>FT noted Tencent licences PUBG from a South Korean company called Bluehole and suggested the issues it is facing in China may be linked to a 2017 row between the countries regarding a South Korean missle defence system and subsequent Chinese boycott of goods from the country.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/apps\/news-apps\/tencent-q4-profit-tumbles\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese web giant Tencent ditched a plan for a domestic launch of PlayerUnknown&rsquo;s Battlegrounds (PUBG), &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/apps-home-banner\/tencent-plays-safe-over-china-pubg-launch\/\">Tencent plays safe over China PUBG launch<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/08\/tencent-plays-safe-over-china-pubg-launch\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2069,2,4041,2143,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-yCD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133177,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133091\/revisions\/133177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}