Shares in Garena’s parent company Sea Limited fell sharply after reports emerged that its flagship mobile stock Free Fire was reportedly banned in India.
India was one of the biggest markets for Free Fire. According to data provided by App Annie to TechCrunch, the country accounted for 40 million of its 75 million global monthly active users. Also, Free Fire was the highest grossing mobile game in India according to a report by MoneyControl. The game grossed $34.3 million in the South Asian country in 2021, up 125% year-over-year.
AFK: Away From Keyboard
AFK: Ban In Free Fire
AFK means that you or those who do will stay in the game until they die from the Zone or are killed by the enemy afterwards. This AFK behavior, for example, isn’t really a problem if you’re playing in solo mode. But if you’re doing it in Squad or Duo mode, it’s definitely a problem.
Garena Free Fire Codes January 2023
Free Fire developer Garena often releases codes with various freebies for players. These codes are distributed via influencers, social media, special events, and so on. Most of these codes are time limited and will expire at some point. Some codes are day codes. Some are permanent. For this reason, make sure you redeem Free Fire Max codes as fast as possible. That said, these Free Fire Max redemption codes are said to be working at the time of writing:
- FF9MJ31CXKRG
- FFICJGW9NKYT
- FFCO8BS5JW2D
- FFAC2YXE6RF2
- FFICJGW9NKYT
- XUW3FNK7AV8N
- FF11NJN5YS3E
- FF11WFNPP956
- MQJWNBVHYAQM
- 8F3QZKNTLWBZ
- J3ZKQ57Z2P2P
- W4GPFVK2MR2C
- WCMERVCMUSZ9
- MSJX8VM25B95
- RRQ3SSJTN9UK
- FF7MUY4ME6S
- SARG886AV5GR
- FF1164XNJZ2V
- FFICDCTSL5FT
- PACJJTUA29UU
- FFBCLQ6S7W25
- TJ57OSSDN5AP
- FFPLUED93XRT
- R9UVPEYJOXZX
- TFF9VNU6UD9J
- HAYATOAVU76V
- RRQ3SSJTN9UK
Free Fire Officials Update
Recently, PUBG developer Kraft onwards filed a lawsuit against Garena Free Fire for allegedly replicating several PUBG components in Free Fire, such as Airdrop, the mix of weapons and combinations of colors, materials and textures, among other things. Additionally, Kraft on accused Google and Apple of marketing this game on their respective app marketplaces while being completely unaware of the game’s uniqueness.
The Indian government, however, has banned it, along with 53 other applications that have ties to the Chinese government. To put it another way, the game broke the Indian government’s guidelines regarding the collection and use of sensitive user data. The game is not accessible on either the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store. While the enhanced version of Free Fire known as Free Fire MAX is still accessible on the Google Play Store, it is not yet available on the Apple App Store.