Professional gamers, e-sports organisers in a tough zone after PUBG ban

The country accounts for around 25 per cent of the gaming app's global user base

The central government’s decision last week to ban multi-player gaming app PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) caught professional gamers and e-sport organisers off guard. 

And while some gamers are looking at alternatives like Call of Duty, most believe these might not become the craze among users like PUBG was. 

According to GamingMonk, India’s largest e-sports platform in terms of users, it had to cancel 700 PUBG tournaments scheduled for this month. The company had over 30,000 PUBG players on a daily basis and each tournament’s size could range from a few hundred to even 20,000 gamers. 

“But we see a huge influx of users playing