Marvel Snap is in the crosshairs of TikTok ban in the US

Last night, Saturday, January 18th United States Government It made good on its promise to ban TikTok. The ban came as a result of a recently revamped amendment to a Ukraine aid bill that had bipartisan support, and seemed more likely given that TikTok’s owner, the Chinese tech giant… ByteDanceHe refused to sell it to A American company. Users were very surprised to see the ban imposed, partly because this affects more than just one popular social platform.

American players of the popular mobile game Marvel Snap We received a pop-up message last night (or this morning, if they checked) saying that the trading card game is banned in the country. “A law has been enacted banning (our game) in the United States,” the pop-up says. “Unfortunately, this means that you cannot use Marvel Snap Right now. Rest assured, we are working to restore our services in the US, please stay tuned!” As with TikTok, this appears to affect players who do not live in the US, but He does You have an account in the country, and the game app no ​​longer appears in the iOS or Android stores.

Marvel Snap It is published by Nuverse, a subsidiary of ByteDance. This, in addition to other applications (CapCut and Lemon8) and games (One Punch Man: The Strongest, EVO Mission) owned by the company, It has similarly been banned in the country for the foreseeable future. As of writing, Marvel has not commented on the outage, but the developer has Second dinner He described it as “a surprise to us and it was not planned.” The studio said the game “isn’t going anywhere” and that it is “actively working on updating the game as soon as possible and we will update you as soon as we have more to share.”

Unfortunately, MARVEL SNAP is temporarily unavailable in US app stores and not available to play in the US

This outage came as a surprise to us and was not planned. MARVEL SNAP isn’t going anywhere.

We are working hard to raise the level of the game as soon as possible and we will…

– Second Dinner (@Seconddinner) January 19, 2025

at the moment, Marvel Snap And TikTok players can only wait for incoming President Donald Trump to rescind the ban on ByteDance products Called for the first time By executive order in 2020. Until then, there always is Marvel competitors Or watch pop Streams.

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