The famous online video game, Player Unknown Battle Ground, has been making headlines for the past few weeks, but not for the right reasons. From suicides and accidental deaths to crime and fights with parents, the game is being blamed for influencing the youth negatively. Even though the Telangana government hasn’t banned the game as yet, talks are sure doing the rounds. Will this be the right step? Our Hyderabadi students don’t think so.

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I don’t think that the government has any locus to ban the game. In a structure of government that has freedom as its base, it should not be allowed to interfere with people’s lives to such a degree. — Yash Agarwal, Nalsar University of Law

PUBG is becoming more and more popular only because it brings the mass player population into one game. As far as addiction is concerned, I don’t feel it’s addictive because I believe one must know their limitations. — Vishnu Vardhan, Vignan Institute of Technology and Science

There is no point in banning the game. So many of the accusations that were made against the game were proven false. From suicides to a recent death, they have been proven to be fake accusations against PUBG, so one cannot just ban the game based on petty issues..— Yagna Teja Kalayru, JNTUH

I honestly think that banning PUBG is not the best idea because today’s youth is super tech-savvy and will definitely find ways to download the game any which way. It is a game made purely for entertainment purposes so there’s no point banning it. However, a maximum play time limit can be set up for the app to control the game addicts.— Rohan Dwivedi, IBS

I don’t believe that banning the game would solve the problem; people could still use a virtual private network (VPN) and play the game. The game is played only for fun, but banning it wouldn’t solve anything, rather the ‘addicts’ will get more enraged and take unethical steps, which could be worse compared to video game addiction.— Siddhant Vijayan, Anish College of Commerce

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