Game Licensing in Vietnam
The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) requires games to be licensed to remain available on the App Store in Vietnam. To learn more and apply for a game license, review the regulations.
I suspect this means Dice by PCalc and About by PCalc will be exiting the App Store in Vietnam, because there are new rules which require me to apply for a game license to keep them on the store there.
The rules seem to be mainly targeted at people running multiplayer games, but you still need one for offline single player stuff, and I believe it’s way outside of the scope of what a small indie can do.
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“Foreign enterprises wishing to publish games in Vietnam must establish enterprises in Vietnam with charter capital not exceeding 49% in accordance with the Law on Foreign Investment”.
Previously:
- Apple Adopts Tighter Chinese App Store Rules
- China to Require Apps to Register With Government
- Apple Removes Unlicensed Games From China App Store
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I'm from that country and this is basically from the government to control which type of games they "want" you to access. But most importantly, they want to control the payment system (which then they can put ridiculous taxes on), and also forcing you to give up user data for identification (by having a "middleman", requires you to enter your citizen identification card number, name, age, etc.) Sounds like China, isn't it?
By the way, if you ever speak this with your identity in that country, sooner or later you'll for sure be contacted by the local police for "spreading misinformation" and fined around 300 dollars.
