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Agarwal says that it is due to the boom of PUBG Mobile that he found the footing that he has today. “(PUBG) made me a confident person, who is also known and represented across the world. It gave me my identity, to a scale that possibly nothing else could have given me. It (the rise and boom of PUBG Mobile) is something that was never really seen before, and I do not expect it to be repeated in the same scale, either,” he adds. Ever since starting out as a professional PUBG Mobile gamer, Agarwal has gone on to form his own professional e-sports team, under his ‘8bit Thug’ umbrella.

I chose e-sports over studies as my career, but now, I’ll have to go back to my regular studies so that I can find a job. This will sacrifice my e-sports career, which I loved.

Like Agarwal, the ban on PUBG Mobile has deeply affected other professional gamers as well. One such player is Yogesh ‘Roxx’ Yadav, the in-game leader (team leader, of sorts) of PUBG Mobile team GXR Celtz. The latter, who won the PUBG Mobile Premier League – South Asia (Season 1), have been one of the professional teams that have seen fringe or casual gamers make it big on a global scale. Speaking to News18, Yadav says, “Along with me, thousands of other pro PUBG players have worked hard, day and night, to make a living out of e-sports, and the (PUBG Mobile) ban has shattered our dreams. I chose e-sports over studies as my career, but now, I’ll have to go back to my regular studies so that I can find a job. This will sacrifice my e-sports career, which I loved.”