KRAFTON’s Instagram post announcing the return has two million likes so far. We used to make a lot of money in such seasons, " said Akash Agarwal, a Ranchi-based adventure events organiser who supplies gaming equipment to colleges in Jharkhand, Bihar, and West Bengal. Before it got banned, college tournaments were massive. “The timing is perfect, to be honest schools and colleges are preparing for summer breaks and fests. Tournament organisers are also optimistic, with some also thinking about hosting BGMI tournaments once again. “But I will give it another three months before returning to playing the game full-time,” he notes. Now we’re hoping it will return so that we have another shot at winning the prize money,” he says. “Since I’m officially an esports player there, it wouldn’t be too difficult for me to replay the game once again… before the ban, the tournament we qualified for was put on hold. “I think it would be fairly easy for them to find their footing again given how much people invested and spent time in the game.”įormer players like Vikky echo a similar sentiment. However, Sehgal believes those players will likely return to BGMI. Piyush Kumar, Founder and CEO of India-based gaming-focused streaming platform Rooter, tells YourStory that after the ban, titles like Valorant by Riot and COD Mobile replaced BGMI and were among the top three games watched. According to a report by AFK Gaming, S8UL, one of India’s top esports teams earning up to Rs 1 lakh monthly on BGMI streams, saw a sharp decline in viewership when it played other games after the ban. “They had been very active in terms of launching new games in the ecosystem, but none of them has matched the popularity of BGMI,” Salone Sehgal, Founding General Partner at Lumikai, tells YourStory. While the game had 2.5 lakh pre-registrations at the time of launch and nearly 1 lakh downloads on Google Play Store, it did not generate the kind of excitement that BGMI had.
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