Sea is “nonetheless making adjustments” and has but to launch its common cellular recreation Free Hearth in India, greater than six months after saying plans to take action.

Yanjun Wang, Group Chief Company Officer at Sea, mentioned in the course of the earnings name this week that the Singapore-headquartered big continues to be making adjustments to the sport to think about “customers’ desire regionally” and has “no materials improvement” to share.

Garena, the gaming unit of Sea, introduced plans to relaunch Free Hearth in India in August final yr. On the time, Garena mentioned Free Hearth India can be made out there within the nation on September 5. Garena mentioned it had partnered with Yotta, managed by native big Hiranandani, for cloud and different storage wants of native customers’ knowledge within the nation. It has additionally appointed Indian cricket icon Mahendra Singh Dhoni as its model ambassador within the nation.

Free Hearth, as soon as a beloved recreation in India, has left its devoted fanbase pissed off by Garena’s lack of transparency concerning the relaunch, main many avid gamers to desert the title in favor of Krafton’s BGMI.

Sea declined to remark.

India banned Free Hearth and dozens of different Chinese language apps in 2022. Days later, Sea mentioned it was shutting down Shopee’s operations in India, months into testing the social commerce service within the nation.

The testing of Shopee in India had prompted criticism from native retailers within the nation. The Confederation of All India Merchants, an influential foyer group for scores of offline retailers in India, had reached out to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cautioning him that the arrival of yet one more international participant participating in what it alleged had been “unfair commerce practices” will harm the native ecosystem.