Marvel Snap Is Banned, Just Like Tiktok

The divest-or-ban norm aimed astatine TikTok is too taking down different ByteDance-linked apps, including nan celebrated insubstantial crippled Marvel Snap. The app abruptly trim disconnected entree Saturday night, seemingly without warning, astonishing gamers who weren’t alert of its narration to ByteDance.

The paper crippled battler group successful nan Marvel beingness is developed by Second Dinner, which is based successful California. But nan crippled is published by Nuverse, a institution owned by ByteDance. As a result, it’s taxable to nan aforesaid shutdown order.

Just earlier nan almanac turned complete to January 19th, 2025, nan crippled vanished from nan App Store for iPad and iPhone players and from Google Play for players connected Android.

An in-game relationship now tells players:

Oddly, dissimilar TikTok, it doesn’t look that players weren’t fixed overmuch informing astir nan law’s effect, and galore group whitethorn not personification realized it was moreover connected to ByteDance, including group who were still spending money connected in-game items expecting to beryllium tin to support playing it.

Other ByDance apps quickly vanished from app stores connected pinch TikTok, including Lemon8 and CapCut. The effect connected different ByteDance-linked apps is mixed; however, it whitethorn return clip to region them. The Lark app that offers a Slack-like collaboration level was disposable initially but has now been removed, while different Nuverse-published games, for illustration Earth: Revival - Deep Underground and Ragnarok X: 3rd Anniversary, are still disposable successful nan App Store arsenic of this writing, conscionable aft midnight ET connected nan 19th.