Wikipedia provides some theories. Developer claims it was because it was addictive and not good for people. The Media, which of course is state-ran, claims is

Wikipedia provides some theories. Developer claims it was because it was addictive and not good for people. The Media, which of course is state-ran, claims is was because of intellectual property legal reasons. "Lawyers in Vietnam" denied that it was related to internet censorship. He was making $50k a revenue a day and like most businesses in China and Vietnam, not formally paying taxes. Even in Japan, most small businesses are not correctly paying taxes. The fact that the game itself is a rip-off makes it unlikely that the developer has the highest standard of ethics. Regarding intellectual property, even the government was found to be using bootlegged versions of Windows. Before companies like Adobe realized they needed to move to a SaaS model, there were entire streets selling cracked version of software like Photoshop for 50 cents a pop. Same with Playstation games. Nintendo used hardware medium to make the economics of bootlegging harder, but it was much easier to burn CDs. You simply couldn't buy authentic versions of Playstation games if you wanted to. I don't think the government had any clue on how to regulate, control, and tax digital services. Regardless, it is guaranteed that government officials paid the developer a visit that day and brought him back to the police office in a police truck. Somebody there would have hassled him for money. Whether he paid or not, there will just be more vultures coming and will just leave him the leftovers. He probably just rage quit instead of having them have most of the pie. This shouldn't be a surprising for a communist regime that a generation ago seized tens of thousands of landlord's land [1], made their children bury them alive, while declaring how they've stolen from the people. Some of the older party members there right now who are eating with Salt Bae [2] were probably there torturing [3] the 80,000 missing American POWs [1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2756362 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2756362 [2] https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/vietnam-jail-noodle-seller-bui-tuan-lam-salt-bae-b2345598.html https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/southeast-asia/vietnam-ja... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufnWLVQcKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufnWLVQcKg