The divest-or-ban regulation aimed toward TikTok can be taking down different ByteDance-linked apps, together with the favored card sport Marvel Snap. The app instantly minimize off entry Saturday night time, seemingly with out warning, shocking avid gamers who weren’t conscious of its connection to ByteDance.
The cardboard sport battler set within the Marvel universe is developed by Second Dinner, which is predicated in California. However the sport is revealed by Nuverse, an organization owned by ByteDance. In consequence, it’s topic to the identical shutdown order.
In an announcement on X, Second Dinner known as the takedown a shock and stated, “Marvel Snap isn’t going anyplace. We’re actively engaged on getting the sport up as quickly as attainable and can replace you as soon as we’ve got extra to share.”
Simply earlier than the calendar turned over to January nineteenth, 2025, the sport disappeared from the App Retailer for iPad and iPhone gamers and from Google Play for gamers on Android. For gamers on PC, the sport remains to be listed in Steam in the intervening time, however many gamers are reporting they have been signed out and may’t signal again in.
An in-game message now tells gamers:
Sorry, Marvel Snap isn’t out there proper now
A regulation banning Marvel Snap has been enacted within the U.S. Sadly, meaning you possibly can’t use Marvel Snap for now. Relaxation assured, we’re working to revive our service within the U.S. Please keep tuned!
Oddly, in contrast to TikTok, it doesn’t seem that gamers got a lot warning concerning the regulation’s impact, and many individuals could not have realized it was even linked to ByteDance, together with individuals who have been nonetheless spending cash on in-game gadgets anticipating to have the ability to maintain enjoying it.
Different ByDance apps shortly disappeared from app shops together with TikTok, together with Lemon8 and CapCut. The impact on different ByteDance-linked apps is combined; nonetheless, it might take time to take away them. The Lark app that provides a Slack-like collaboration platform was out there initially however has now been eliminated, whereas different Nuverse-published video games, like Earth: Revival – Deep Underground and Ragnarok X: third Anniversary, are nonetheless out there within the App Retailer as of this writing, simply after midnight ET on the nineteenth.
Replace, January nineteenth: Famous reviews that Marvel Snap PC gamers can’t log in and added an announcement from sport developer Second Dinner.
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