Battlegrounds Mobile India will need you to get permission from your parents to play if you are under 18

PUBG Mobile makers Krafton on Thursday announced Battlegrounds Mobile India almost a year after the ban in India.

Battlegrounds Mobile India is the new PUBG Mobile for India. Krafton, the parent company, announced it will soon release the new mobile title with a battle royale experience for players in India who have been awaiting the relaunch of PUBG Mobile. But there are going to be discernible changes to Battlegrounds Mobile India, and these changes are more or less an outcome of last year’s ban. According to the privacy policy that the company has mentioned on the new website, players below 18 years of age will require permission from their guardian to be able to play Battlegrounds Mobile India. Krafton has said in the privacy policy document that minors -- those who are not 18 yet -- will need to provide the contact number of their parents or guardian who will be later required to verify your signup process. After the parents have given their permission, people below the age of 18 years will be deemed eligible for the game. Now, there are several loopholes in this process, the biggest being the lack of a robust system to verify the contact number these players are likely to furnish. It is going to be very easy for minors to misuse this rule because most of them have their own mobile numbers. They can easily fool the system by entering their phone number instead of their parents’ to get permission.