It has been a while since PUBG and Fortnite took the world by storm but there hasn’t been any sort of decrease in the number of players of the games. However, Indian police seems to have enough of the addiction of the game and now have taken the initiative to start arresting PUBG players. According to the Indian Express, 10 university students were arrested for playing PUBG Mobile a week after a ban was instituted in the state of Gujarat. The students were released on bail.
“This game is highly addictive and the accused were so engrossed in playing them that they could not even notice our team approaching them,” a police official was quoted as saying.
Six more students, between the ages of 18 and 22, were reportedly arrested in the early hours of Thursday morning. These students were also released on bail.
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The ban was reportedly issued due to concerns about the game’s impact on players’ “behaviour, conduct, and language.” PUBG Mobile remains legal in other Indian states, however. Oddly enough, the ban doesn’t affect mega-popular multiplayer title Fortnite, despite the fact that it’s a battle royale shooter as well.
This ban turns out to be very problematic since related games are being played as usual. And it would take a whole lot more time to start arresting people for playing these games. Google offers a Family Link service to help parents monitor and limit what their kids are doing. In other words, Google has provided at least some tools to help control young people’s access to inappropriate content. This is due to the +16-age restriction of PUBG.
As peculiar as the arrests sound, they might make sense because of the lack of parental control over these players and could help preventing any negative effects that the game has on teenagers.
