China To Ban All-Day Online Gaming: You Go Now!
- April 12th, 2007
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China doesn’t want its citizens to become video game-playing zombies, so it’s going to impose restrictions on the amount of time gamers can play. This doesn’t just apply to Internet cafes, either, but will be a server-side ban that affects everyone. The government will give companies that host online games three months to install time-limiting software. Once installed, the software will automatically start sending messages to gamers who’ve played for more than three consecutive hours: stop playing, addict, or we’ll stop you ourselves. Well, maybe not that heavy handed, but there will be consequences.
Once the three hours are up, gamers will stop gaining points. So you can sit their all day and not gain a single level in Awesome MMORPG: China Edition. Truly terrible. At least China knows what it wants from its people.
China seeks to ‘limit game hours’ [BBC News]
Whatever
1 year ago
Old news, but this limit only applies to people under 18.
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Dennis Bjørn Petersen (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Why would China worry about this? Don’t they have a lot of other things to worry more about? Poverty, coal miner’s safety, democracy and so forth?
Cyber Akuma
1 year ago
Sigh, again? They tried something like this before, where the companies were ordered to change their software so people from China would start getting less exp, no drops, etc etc the longer they played. EVERY mmorpg on the planet was supposed to imbend this special programming into their game. It went nowhere. This basically sounds like the same thing, asking every mmorpg creator to modify their game for one country to add limits the government of that one country wants that would reduce the amount of people playing. Yeah right, they will get right on that, just as soon as Duke Nukem Forever is released.
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