Online game providers can only offer one-hour services to minors from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, as well as on official holidays.
Also: real name registrations and logins to be mandatory.
As reported by the official Chinese state-run news agency
Xinhua.
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“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
There are parties in western countries salivating at this prospect.
Problem is most play embrace totalitarianism when it aligns with what they want, and oppose it when it doesn't.
Don't worry, all of this "video games are causing violence" will blossom into something awful in the west too. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But someday for sure.
Meanwhile there are countries that treat their citizens like adults, and somehow, they don't have these bullshit problems along with their bullshit solutions.
But hey, most of people who have been nagging about loot-boxes are from countries that prostitution is illegal unless you film it, or you can star in porn and go to war when you are 18 but you can't have a fucking beer, then any limitation of alcohol is considered an act against mankind but not only should ban drugs, but you declared a fucking war on it.
You know why do you have those ridiculous laws? Because people before you were also hypocrites.
Don't get me wrong, I am not a libertarian or something, I am not that selfish. Or one of those guys who opposes any government program but supports wars, and calls the cops and asks the government to incarcerate or executive anyone who looks at them wrong. No. But I really want the governments to fuck off when it comes down to stuff that is a personal choice and requires nothing but personal responsibility.
But the levels they seem to be setting are draconian, how would be seven year old self have got that raid done with only one hour in the evening?
거북이는 목을 내밀 때 안 움직입니다
Whether companies like Tencent, with its stable of western studios, will try to push this new approach as their corporate-wide policy or if they will leave the subsidiaries alone. The former would certainly make it easier to localise western games in China.
In any case, this move might have a big impact on how the games will be monetised in future. If the online habits in China will now be focusing on a few peak hours per week, that might push microtransactions and P2W practices even stronger than today. Youngsters simply won't have the time to grind stuff in-game and the developers will adapt their monetisation strategy accordingly.
Though I suspect there is going to be some sort of underground spoofing community that figures out how to bypass this restriction.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
I dislike what they're doing on general principle because it's just China being China with more of their social engineering shit, but I think you're way overestimating the economic impact.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
I don't see how you prove someone is a minor or not? Every website I go to jsut has a "check here if you are over the age of 13" or something like that.....Have they created some sort of online ID whre they can accurately verify how old someone is? Also why not just go to older brother or uncle or some other relative and have them sign in for you? I'm sure there are a million ways around this.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo