Garena Free Fire Banned in India: Are Free Fire Servers still working? (18 February 2022)

Garena Free Fire was banned in India on 14 February 2022. The government of India released a ban list of 54 applications with Garena Free Fire included due to national security reasons. The ban list also comprised cloned apps that were earlier banned by the Indian Government. While Free Fire is removed from app stores, its servers are still working in India. The players who have it downloaded to their devices are still playing the game without any hassle. This was the only relief and good news for Free Fire Players in the last few days.

However, Free Fire is still banned in the country, and there are zero possibilities of its revoking from the ban list. Thus, Players can download the Max version of the game. Free Fire Max is an enhanced version of the original Free Fire. Players can use their Free Fire ID in the Max version and can play the game while their progress will be saved in the game.

The current state of the Free Fire servers in India on 18 February 2022

Talking about the current situation of the game, Garena Free Fire is still online from different servers in India. As mentioned before, Free Fire was removed from the Google Play Store and Apple app store on 12 February, which was confusing for the Free Fire Users in India. After two days of chaos, India’s Ministry of Electronics and IT announced the battle royale game’s inclusion in the ban list. 

However, players are still playing the game and keep on making the in-game progress. Furthermore, Free Fire’s website and game are still available to play even after four days of restriction. Free Fire Players are quite happy with the situation as compared to the ban of PUBG Mobile back in 2020. Moreover, some network operators already followed the order of the Indian government and stopped service for the battle royale shooter from their side.

Although, it is likely to say that the time is limited for the Battle royale title as internet providers will soon start to execute the ban on the app. Therefore, Gamers should move to the Max version of the game as both the versions are similar, it will be easier to acquire the same data or progress.

While the players can wait for an official address from the Garena regarding the ban. Since Garena has only acknowledged the situation and doing what is possible to do. But it is unlikely that ban will be revoked soon enough. However, Players can hope for the best.

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