It actually looks like ByteDance is blocking them to generate uproar. The law only required to remove the app from app store
Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok
Submitted 1 day ago by Jeffool@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24347034/marvel-snap-banned-tiktok-bytedance
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takeda@lemm.ee 1 day ago
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It prohibits other companies from providing support services to them too.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’ll add, “my government might get pissed off at one of the companies involved” to my list of reasons why always-online games are a terrible idea.
ech@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
Or “the company might get pissy with your government for any reason”. No reason to let them off the hook, either.
Jambalaya@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Why wouldn’t a multiplayer-focused game be always online?
AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Self-hostable servers, this way if their datacenters go down, game is still playable
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Another commenter already gave you the answer, but it truly sucks that we’ve gotten so used to this that you can’t imagine an alternative.
catloaf@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
LAN play
jacksilver@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I feel like bytedance is doing this on purpose to rule people up, as these kinds of services weren’t explicity called out.
It may backfire though. I don’t think most Americans know how much is influenced/owned by Chinese companies.
ech@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
They did. And they already are rolling it back, specifically thanking trump for helping to “restore service”. It was all a political stunt, and nobody’s gonna care cause their skinner button got turned back on again.
tekato@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The bill very explicitly calls out ByteDance and any website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application owned by them.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Hmm, I may be reading it wrong, but it’s just talking about the distribution/updating of foreign controlled applications. Based on what I’ve seen Marvel Snap isnt controlled by them, they just provide services for the application, so it wouldn’t technically apply. However, I’m not a lawyer and may have the wrong read on the app, but given the game developers were surprised I’d think that’s the right read.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 19 hours ago
They targeted gamers.
Gamers.
We’re a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.
We’ll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it’s fun.
We’ll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We’re already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren’t shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We’ve been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that’s already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they’ve threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can’t is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You’re not special, you’re not original, you’re not the first; this is just another boss fight.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Certified classic
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
copypasta approved
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 15 hours ago
My favourite part is “challenge” being misspelt multiple times. It’s just chefs kiss
Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s…
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
huh, had no idea it was made by bytedance as well
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah. You might want to look into some other foreign owned companies as well. Tencent owns a metric shit ton of “American” companies for instance, I bet there’s several on that list that would surprise you.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Tencent I’m aware of, there was quite a bit of controversy about them a few years back
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I recall that tencent had like a small stake in Reddit too. Like 10% or something like that. Or am I remembering wrong?
franklin@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
dear God, please let League of Legends get banned, it would be so funny
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s not made by Bytedance. It’s made by one company and published by a second, different company who is owned by Bytedance.
Zugyuk@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Not made by, the studio is “second dinner” the same guys that made hearthstone, but in their own studio.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 22 hours ago
This feels like ByteDance going out of their way to paint the outgoing president and party as truly awful and give the victory to Trump in a week
invertedspear@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
I think they know that saying “you’ll look better than Biden” is a great way to manipulate trump into doing just about anything.
ech@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
It absolutely was.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Why does nearly everything entertaining support oligarchs
Nevermind, rhetorical question. There’s no ethical consumption yadayada
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 day ago
You have it backwards, oligarchs are controlling the media
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yea. Backwards samewards, omnidirectionally
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Yeah, oligarchs are controlling the media they own, and consuming their media supports billionaires.
What part of what they said was backwards?
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
Rumor mill is already spreading like wildfire.
Commenters are concerned about League of Legends and every other Chinese owned game studio without a US backer.
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Bieren@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Trump will fix this. After a small payment from the companies. And then just ignoring the law.
errer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And nothing of value was lost.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 23 hours ago
I dunno about that.
There’s gonna be a bunch of angry Unstable 12yos uncertain what to do now that their gacha crack was torn away from them.
errer@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Crack taken away from children, what of value was lost again?
ripcord@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Their parents should find something else for them to stare at mindlessly for hours
Zugyuk@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Also impacted, 40 year old farty dads
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Who cares. Find a new game.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You care nothing of freedoms do you? I don’t use either of these apps but I still think it is outrageous to strip people’s ability to choose their actions because politicians are worried they can’t control enough of the media.
“Find a new game” is just “fall in line”
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Man, even the government is tried of capeshit.
meliodas_101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hopefully they ban marvel rivals too.
B312@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Rivals isn’t that bad. It has its issues but it doesn’t warrant a ban
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
Oh damn it affects CapCut. Glad I’m not American, I’d have hated to lose that.
dilroopgill@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Glad I moved on to davinci a couple months ago, f davinci for taking away the free user created addons tho, its only in premium now
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 day ago
I love DaVinci, but if I’m doing something quicker on my iPad I prefer CC
Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
Its almost like there are consequences of banning something folks don’t understand the full scope of…
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 day ago
Time to switch to Marvel Flatpak
kaprap@leminal.space 1 day ago
finally, I was getting tired of using Marvel AppImage in protest of snaps! :P
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I’m still playing Marvel Strike Force. The dev has become Ahab hunting whales, but it passes the time