Surprise Snap is banned, similar to TikTok
The divest-or-ban regulation aimed at TikTok could also be taking down different ByteDance-linked apps, together with the preferred card sport Surprise Snap. The app abruptly bring to an end get admission to Saturday night time, apparently with out caution, sudden players who weren’t acutely aware of its connection to ByteDance.
The card game battler set in the Marvel universe is advanced through 2d Dinner, which is primarily based in California. However the sport is revealed through Nuverse, an organization owned through ByteDance. Consequently, it’s topic to the similar shutdown order.
In a statement on X, 2d Dinner referred to as the takedown a marvel and mentioned, “Surprise Snap isn’t going any place. We’re actively running on getting the sport up once imaginable and can replace you as soon as we’ve got extra to percentage.”
Simply prior to the calendar became over to January nineteenth, 2025, the sport disappeared from the App Retailer for iPad and iPhone avid gamers and from Google Play for avid gamers on Android. For avid gamers on PC, the sport continues to be indexed in Steam at the present time, however many players are reporting they have been signed out and will’t signal again in.
An in-game message now tells avid gamers:
Sorry, Surprise Snap isn’t to be had presently
A regulation banning Surprise Snap has been enacted within the U.S. Sadly, that suggests you’ll’t use Surprise Snap for now. Leisure confident, we’re running to revive our carrier within the U.S. Please keep tuned!
Oddly, in contrast to TikTok, it doesn’t seem that avid gamers got a lot caution concerning the regulation’s impact, and many of us won’t have discovered it was once even hooked up to ByteDance, together with individuals who have been nonetheless spending cash on in-game pieces anticipating so that you could stay taking part in it.
Different ByDance apps briefly disappeared from app shops in conjunction with TikTok, together with Lemon8 and CapCut. The impact on different ByteDance-linked apps is blended; alternatively, it is going to take time to take away them. The Lark app that provides a Slack-like collaboration platform was once to be had first of all however has now been got rid of, whilst different Nuverse-published video games, like Earth: Revival – Deep Underground and Ragnarok X: 3rd Anniversary, are nonetheless to be had within the App Retailer as of this writing, simply after nighttime ET at the nineteenth.
Replace, January nineteenth: Famous studies that Surprise Snap PC avid gamers can’t log in and added a statement from sport developer 2d Dinner.