Mobile card game Marvel Snap also down in the US (Nuverse/ByteDance owned) due to Tiktok ban
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good…
Omg if League of Legends gets banned there will be some very angry unstable individuals leaving their homes
Is league of legends gonna get snapped or get sold back to US soil?
Watcher of Realms is also gone.
maybe its time for Disney to think about being a game distributer again
So the US will start banning Chinese company owned apps? That shit will hit the US gacha game community hard.
Watcher of realms user checking in, they kicked out all of US base too.
Am i the only one imagining the evolution of this being “We’re sorry to announce that [insert game invested in by tencent] is temporarily suspended in the USA to protest the USA not supporting the one china policy. Please call your local senator and vote for XYZ presidential candidate to make sure we can restore service as soon as possible.”
so when they gonna ban marvel rivals too for “made by netease a CCP chinese military company”?
Interesting differences in message..
Wait to you find out TenCent just got put in their sights. Hope nobody has actually paid for anything on the Epic Games Store in particular.
Don’t forget though guys, Trump called for the ban on foreign government controlled medias yet now ByteDance is preemptively declaring him the savior. As a Brit games and other content shouldn’t be banned.
The mouse will get this taken care of with the orange real quick.
Land of free speech
Can’t watch porn, tiktok or play a card game..
Wait hold on, I thought the ban was just for tik tok, what is the law exactly banning?
i had no idea bytedance owned some phone games tbh
Crazy that the developers (Second Dinner) were completely unaware.
Bytedance disabled it, they disabled all their apps
I guess it got snapped out of existence.
Watcher of Realms is also down. Those are the only two mobile games I play lol
Can I stop getting ads for this game now?
A dark day for those who haven’t bought Balatro yet
Marvel snap gamer are cursing tiktok
Just a reminder that Tencent owns a significant but less than majority share of Epic Games and GGG wholly. Possibly goodbye to Path of Exile 2
Looks like cold war 2 has started to ramp up
Isn’t wildrift gonna get shafted as well ?
Ben Brode being a Chinese spy this whole time is crazy /s
Land of the free! 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
This sucks. My son loves this game, and just bought some stuff for it yesterday. Had I known it would be affected, I would’ve stopped him.
A law was NOT enacted to ban Marvel Snap.
This is propaganda being pushed by the Chinese government for the benefit of Trump.
A bi-partisan law passed the house and senate, and recently was upheld by the Supreme Court. The Biden administration has announced they will defer to the incoming Trump administration how this law should be enforced, and will not take any action.
What this means is that there is currently ZERO legal obligation for TikTok or Snap or any app or service to shutdown. They are voluntarily going dark.
I can guarantee you Trump will get into office Monday, announce he saved TikTok, the apps will turn back on, and a shitload of people will think Biden banned the apps and Trump brought them back. Which as tl;dr, is complete fiction.
Incidentally though, this is a great example of why things owned by the Chinese government should be looked at with caution. It’s not the stealing your data that worries me, everyone has my data. It’s the extreme ease with which they can conduct propaganda campaigns on US citizens.
It’s almost as if the ban was never going to be limited to just TikTok or just social media apps….
Will this affect Marvel Rivals?