Marvel Snap Has Also Been Banned Alongside TikTok

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Marvel Snap Has Also Been Banned Alongside TikTok

Summary

  • Marvel Snap has been pulled from mobile app stores in the United States.
  • While it’s developed by California-based Second Dinner, the hit mobile game is published by Nuverse, a subsidiary of TikTok owner ByteDance.
  • TikTok and Marvel Snap were pulled from mobile app stores due to a new law that went into effect on January 19. Second Dinner suggested that its game will relaunch in the U.S. ASAP.

Marvel Snap has been banned in the United States. The hit game was pulled from mobile app stores due to the same legislation enacting a stateside ban of TikTok.

On January 19, a law called Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act—designated H.R.7521—went into effect. This piece of legislation outlaws distribution and maintenance of applications offered by companies that hail out of countries Washington considers adversaries, notably China. Because President-elect Trump is scheduled to be inaugurated a day later, January 20, the Biden administration said it would leave the enforcement of H.R.7521 to its successor. Nevertheless, after the Supreme Court confirmed this de facto TikTok ban, the popular social media app owned by China-based ByteDance voluntarily shut down its stateside operations, having done so in the late evening hours ET on January 18.

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Around the same time, the hit mobile CCG Marvel Snap was also pulled from both the Google Play Store and iOS App Store in the U.S. Despite being developed by Irvine, California-based Second Dinner, Marvel Snap is published by Nuverse, a ByteDance subsidiary. This connection is what made it fall under the purview of H.R.7521, resulting in its removal from stateside app stores. Second Dinner acknowledged the ban in a social media post, but characterized it as a temporary setback. “We’re actively working on getting the game up as soon as possible and will update you once we have more to share,” a company spokesperson wrote on Twitter.

Second Dinner and Nuverse Were Blindsided By Marvel Snap Ban

A similar message, reviewed by Game Rant, was posted on the game’s official Discord server. There, a Second Dinner representative wrote that the ban was a “surprise” to both the developer and Nuverse, suggesting that Marvel Snap‘s removal from U.S. mobile app stores was a decision that came straight from ByteDance. This would explain why neither Second Dinner nor Nuverse said anything about the possibility of the game getting banned in the days preceding its removal.

We’re actively working on getting the game up as soon as possible and will update you once we have more to share.

Marvel Snap Players Aren’t Happy With the Game’s U.S. Ban

While the ban might have blindsided both the game’s developer and publisher, Marvel Snap players aren’t happy with this turn of events, with many of them already voicing their displeasure on Discord and social media. Some fans are already pressuring Second Dinner to refund all the money they spent on the game, arguing that they never would have done so had they known Marvel Snap would become unplayable just two years following its late 2022 release.

Since Second Dinner seems to believe this removal will be short-lived, it’s unlikely to focus on offering mass refunds to stateside customers in the immediate future. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew recently thanked President-elect Trump for being willing to work on solutions to keep the social media app in the U.S., signaling that the incoming administration may “save TikTok,” which is something that the 47th president promised to do on the campaign trail in mid-2024. In the meantime, it would appear that U.S. gamers can still download Marvel Snap via Steam as of the early morning hours ET on January 19.

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