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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
It prohibits other companies from providing support services to them too.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Why wouldn’t a multiplayer-focused game be always online?
AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Self-hostable servers, this way if their datacenters go down, game is still playable
catloaf@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
LAN play
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
huh, had no idea it was made by bytedance as well
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Tencent I’m aware of, there was quite a bit of controversy about them a few years back
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
dear God, please let League of Legends get banned, it would be so funny
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Not made by, the studio is “second dinner” the same guys that made hearthstone, but in their own studio.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Why does nearly everything entertaining support oligarchs
Nevermind, rhetorical question. There’s no ethical consumption yadayada
catloaf@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You have it backwards, oligarchs are controlling the media
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yea. Backwards samewards, omnidirectionally
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, oligarchs are controlling the media they own, and consuming their media supports billionaires.
What part of what they said was backwards?
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 weeks 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.
Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s…
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Certified classic
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
copypasta approved
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
My favourite part is “challenge” being misspelt multiple times. It’s just chefs kiss
Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
It absolutely was.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 weeks 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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errer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And nothing of value was lost.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Crack taken away from children, what of value was lost again?
ripcord@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Their parents should find something else for them to stare at mindlessly for hours
Zugyuk@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Also impacted, 40 year old farty dads
Bieren@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Trump will fix this. After a small payment from the companies. And then just ignoring the law.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Who cares. Find a new game.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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”
masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
They’re not banning Mastodon, or the Fediverse, or EU based messaging apps.
i.e. the objection is not the US government doesn’t control it, but that the Chinese government does.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Man, even the government is tried of capeshit.
meliodas_101@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hopefully they ban marvel rivals too.
B312@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Rivals isn’t that bad. It has its issues but it doesn’t warrant a ban
Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 weeks ago
Oh damn it affects CapCut. Glad I’m not American, I’d have hated to lose that.
dilroopgill@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
I love DaVinci, but if I’m doing something quicker on my iPad I prefer CC
Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Its almost like there are consequences of banning something folks don’t understand the full scope of…
kibiz0r@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Time to switch to Marvel Flatpak
kaprap@leminal.space 4 weeks ago
finally, I was getting tired of using Marvel AppImage in protest of snaps! :P
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m still playing Marvel Strike Force. The dev has become Ahab hunting whales, but it passes the time