Marvel Snap has run afoul of the US’s TikTok ban

Saturday, January 18 United States government It has fulfilled its promise to ban TikTok. The ban comes from a recently updated amendment to the Ukraine aid bill, which has gained bipartisan support and is largely seen as TikTok’s owner, the Chinese tech giant. ByteDancerefused to sell it US company. Users were quite shocked to see the ban imposed as it affects more than just one popular social platform.

US players of the popular mobile game Marvel Snap Last night (or this morning if I checked) I was hit with a pop-up message saying that the card trading game is banned in the country. “A law has been passed in the US banning (our game),” the pop-up reads. “Unfortunately, that means you won’t be able to use it Marvel Snap for now. Rest assured, we are working to restore our service in the US. Please follow us!” As with TikTok, this affects players who don’t live in the US, however do you have a valid account in the country and the game’s app is no longer listed in the iOS or Android stores.

Marvel Snap It is published by Nuverse, a subsidiary of ByteDance. It supports other applications (CapCut and Lemon8) and games (One Punch Man: The Strongest, Mission EVO) is owned by the company, similarly banned in the country in the near future. At the time of writing, Marvel has not commented on the outage, but the developer has The Second Supper “It came as a surprise to us and it was not planned,” he said. The studio said the game is “not going anywhere” and is “actively working on getting the game up and running as soon as possible” and will update you when we have more to share.

Unfortunately, MARVEL SNAP is temporarily unavailable in US app stores and cannot be played in the US.

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

We are actively working to launch the game as soon as possible and will…

– Second Dinner (@seconddinner) January 19, 2025

Currently, Marvel Snap and TikTok players can only wait for incoming President Donald Trump to lift the ban on ByteDance products. called first By executive order in 2020. Until then, there always is Marvel Rivals or watching Snap flows.

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