"We're not up to the speed that I want yet, but we have established the four offices and I think we're going to speed up very soon" Speaking to, CEO Chang Han Kim said the new office opening was part of an ongoing expansion that started when the game first took off last year, hinting at more new studios to come. The Amsterdam team will be the fourth satellite office for PUBG Corp., adding to the 200 people already working on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds around the world. It aims to recruit a minimum of 50 people to begin with, half of which will be dedicated to game development, while the other half will handle business development and marketing. The company, which span out of Korean publisher Bluehole last year to cope with the rapid success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, confirmed plans for the new studio to. "We do play other games like Call of Duty and a few others, but they aren't as engaging as PUBG.PUBG Corporation will open a new office in Amsterdam next month, and is "aggressively hiring" for new talent to work on its smash hit Battle Royale shooter. "The regular gamers are so desperate, one way or another they will find a way to continue playing the game," he said. After the ban came through, Mhatre, whose live stream YouTube channel is called Nobita Gaming, said he and his fellow gamers have been a bit lost, he said, as they didn't know what to do anymore. Rakesh Mhatre, a 21-year-old who lives in Thane, Maharashtra would spend between 3-5 hours on PUBG every day.
India's top game streamers and professional players are incensed about the government decision as PUBG commands almost half of the game streaming market in India, followed by mobile video games Free Fire and Call of Duty. The second implication is that other sources of capital will rush to fill the vacuum,” said Rajeev Suri, Managing Partner at Orios Venture Partners. The fact that PubG had to scramble and get this done means India has become relevant. “The big implication of this development is that India is at the centre of reckoning. Pai added that he believes that India used a strong tactic and banning of apps has caused economic pain because it has the numbers to make it effective. The acceptability of Chinese platforms suffers globally and it is a blow to their global ambitions,” said Santosh Pai, Partner and Head of China Desk, Link Legal. “When you ban PUBG and PUBG Corporation leaves Tencent, it is sending a message that if you have global ambitions, better not work with a Chinese platform. PLR’s Mukerji believes that India needs to come up with a sanctions framework that it can use to achieve geopolitical objectives against countries it considers hostile to its interests, rather than use a patchwork of existing laws that may not fully serve the purpose and may end up inadvertently compromising on meeting expected due process standards. He is also the president of the Indian Digital Gaming Society. If PUBG Corporation comes in on its own, it would then be a South Korean entity,” said Rajan Navani, managing director & CEO, Jetsynthesys, which develops and publishes online games. “If the ban is on the basis of Tencent being a publisher, the game should get reinstated even though it will be a complicated process. Several Chinese apps are struggling to get themselves back in business since India started banning Chinese apps among geopolitical tensions with China. Many believe that the move may help PUBG Corporation reinstate the game in India.