Not only was Marvel Snap just banned in the US, its developer wasn't even told this was happening, so they couldn't let fans now.
Many players were furious with Second Dinner, the US-based developer of Marvel Snap , that there was no warning for this and nothing about how in-game purchases would simply evaporate with the game taken offline. Well, there’s a good reason for that, Second Dinner was not told about this move from its parent company ByteDance at all.“Unfortunately, MARVEL SNAP is temporarily unavailable in U.S. app stores and is unavailable to play in the U.S.
Ben Brode, Marvel Snaps’ Chief Development Officer, is actually recommending that players use a VPN, which can make it seem like you’re playing from Canada, to get around the ban temporarily.ByteDance apps are going offline thanks to the fallout from the TikTok ban in the US which was just implemented yesterday. Even though previously ByteDance divested itself from its Nuverse gaming arm, that was apparently not enough to avoid this fate.
The running theory is that this is all just going to end up being a stunt, and that when Donald Trump takes office tomorrow, he will delay this ban or not enforce it or something along those lines to keep TikTok online. The irony of this is that years ago Trump was on the forefront of trying to get TikTok banned, but he changed his mind at some point during the next election when it seemed TikTok was starting to benefit his campaign.
So, this may last not last that long. Second Dinner’s social media manager is already saying the team is working on it: “Don’t worry, we are working on a fix to get everything restored asap. You don’t need to be free for too long bro.” I’m not exactly sure how this works with ByteDance apparently doing this unilaterally, but hopefully players will have some updates soon.Our community is about connecting people through open and thoughtful conversations.
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