{"id":46724,"date":"2025-02-12T14:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46724"},"modified":"2025-02-12T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T19:11:22","slug":"game-licensing-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/12\/game-licensing-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Licensing in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=06h4gf33\">Apple<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=06h4gf33\"><p>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, <a href=\"https:\/\/game.gov.vn\/regulations-on-licensing-game-publishing-in-vietnam-597\">review the regulations<\/a>.<\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@jamesthomson\/113951639571027124\">James Thomson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@jamesthomson\/113951639571027124\"><p>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.<\/p><p>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&rsquo;s way outside of the scope of what a small indie can do.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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&rdquo;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/04\/apple-adopts-tighter-chinese-app-store-rules\/\">Apple Adopts Tighter Chinese App Store Rules<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/10\/china-to-require-apps-to-register-with-government\/\">China to Require Apps to Register With Government<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/24\/apple-removes-unlicensed-games-from-china-app-store\/\">Apple Removes Unlicensed Games From China App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple: 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. James Thomson: I suspect this means Dice by PCalc and About by PCalc will be exiting the App Store in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-02-12T19:11:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"04960cde-de74-4648-a380-2e173d3e11e3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-02-12T19:11:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ABJYM3t50RkijgC4XPT4R4w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,101,418,31,2586,30,39,2598,442,2724],"class_list":["post-46724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-business","tag-game","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-pcalc","tag-vietnam"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46725,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46724\/revisions\/46725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}