youngsters supposed to selfregulate tushar mathur 25 lawyer from delhi who is also an avid pubg playerit is quite odd that on one hand you have one state hosting a national championship where officials come and award the winners and on the other hand another state is banning the game and arresting the players kaushal kumar 20 part of the delhibased team gods reign which was the first runnerup at the pubg mobile india series 2019pubg makers surprised at ban say game is meant merely for entertainmentpubg mobile is a game it is meant merely for entertainment and should be enjoyed in a healthy and responsible manner in consonance with our endeavour to continue promoting responsible gaming experience we are working on the introduction of a healthy gameplay system in india to promote balanced responsible gaming including limiting play time for underaged players we were thus surprised to learn that local authorities in a few cities have decided to impose a ban on playing our game we are working to understand the legal basis of such bans and hope we can have a constructive dialogue with relevant authorities to explain our objectives and that they withdraw the prohibition to pubg mobile players we want to assure you that we are on your side and we will try our best to find a reasonable solution tencent pubg mobiles developers in a statementtimes viewif a ban has no legal basis how can the police who are supposed to be the upholders of the law be allowed to enforce it this is a classic case of making criminals out of ordinary citizens because someone with authority is displeased about something legality aside study after study has not been able to establish any connection between video games and reallife violent behaviour it would be better if the authorities focussed their attention on preventing crime in real life instead of on gamers who are minding their own businesswatch arrested for playing pubg lawyers gamers call gujarat action illegal arbitary