CN China Limits Minors to Just Three Hours of Online Gaming a Week

China’s regulators announced a new set of tighter regulations over the country’s games industry, including limiting the number of hours that minors can play.

The new rules are aimed at curbing excessive indulgence in games and protecting minors’ physical and mental health. Online game providers can only offer services to minors for an hour on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, Xinhua reported, citing a notice released by National Press and Publication Administration. They can also play only an hour a day during holidays.

The new rules are part of a broader government crackdown on technology companies in the country. Tencent Holdings Ltd., China’s largest games company, had already begun to implement similar restrictions.

Earlier this month, state media published forceful critiques of the industry and at one point labeled games “spiritual opium.” That description was later removed, but share prices plunged out of concern for further restrictions.

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[Tism the Return]

Based Chinks shooting themselves in the foot stepping down after dominating all the E-sports scenes. Alpha move.

 

[Long-Nosed Fish]

Do you think it's acceptable for you young child to be gambling on fortnite while hearing a 17 minute speech by MLK? (The speech isn't bad, but it's introducing your child to the concept of racism, which may have never crossed their mind until this point)

You do realize that MLK day is a federal holiday which kids as young as 6 have assemblies and curriculums about annually right? That's the big bad you were building up to in your essay there?

 

[Some JERK]

You can't build iPhones and knockoff sneakers with your face glued to a video game. Get back to work.

 

[Vince McMahon]

You do realize that MLK day is a federal holiday which kids as young as 6 have assemblies and curriculums about annually right? That's the big bad you were building up to in your essay there?

He's being sarcastic...

Notice the usage of the word "gambling", not "gaming".

 

[ZehnBoat]

mmm yeah, daddy government, step on me harder

inb4 "if your parents have any bad thoughts, let big pooh now and win a prize"

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

Wait, hold up, a week? A day, maybe. A few hours to yourself every day is good for healthy function.

But 3 hours a WEEK? Wait until kids start getting caught in the Foxconn Nets.

 

[Dysnomia]

Have you played console games (the main medium for kids) lately? Every game is infested with gatcha shite, whether or not you have to pay for it, the games use predatory practices to keep you engaged, because gaming is no longer about stories or interesting gameplay, it's about pushing agendas, creating gambling addicts and unmoral faggots.

When i was a wee lad, shagging a hooker in GTA and ripping a spine out in MK were the worst things imaginable. Now we see gay, lgbtq agendas pushed on kids. Gaming is now a platform to reach young audiences, and nothing more. Games are just a medium from transmitting the message.

I agree with this, but like i said above, it isn't as simple as "johnny, you can only play Baldurs gate for another 4 hours". Nowadays Johnny is addicted and will fight tooth and nail, and often lie in order to keep getting a hit on his addiction. I will concede that it depends on the games Johnny plays. Nintendo shit might be alright, I stay away from Nintendo because I'm not a child or pedophile.


It was a good point.

It shouldn't be government mandated but the government needs to restrict these video game publishers/designers in to adding elements in to the game over which the player has no control, for the sole purpose of pushing sales. For example; EA monitors your vocal patterns on your headset, the more angry you get the harder they make the game, they then push 'buffs' on you via sales and/or DLC, so that you're more likely to purchase these items.

The gatcha is bad in a lot of games. Thinking back to games like The Minish Cap where you obviously only paid in game currency for figurines, it was still addicting. Any game where you have to try many times to get certain prizes will eat up time. But it will eat up money if money is a requirement.

And then if the game goes offline there goes all your gatcha and money. It's a very temporary high.

The woke is getting bad in games. But in China they don't have to worry about that. Just pro-China propaganda content.

But I'd be concerned with gatcha when it gets out of hand. Kids find ways around asking for mommy's credit card every time they want new premium items. Gatcha has replaced a lot of the premium item sales where you'd just directly buy a new hat or pet or something. So you have to keep trying for what you want, getting ten crap items and one kinda good one. And if you are lucky that hat you wanted. After you spent fat more for it than it would have cost in a direct buy from a premium shop.

Japan banned full sheet gatcha, where you have to collect a bunch of bottom tier items from a list to trade up for the good stuff. It's the same con as carnival prizes where you can only win the best prize if you collect all the garbage like pencil toppers and cheap teddies first.

The greedy people who thought of this really had an ace idea. Players fell for it. When I see them defend lootboxes I can't believe how dumb they are. But a fool and their money. You know the rest.

I don't think doing parents jobs for them is the answer though. But I guess it's part of the narrative that Pooh Bear knows best.

 

[Hathungor]

I predict that:
-they will switch to offline games, grey market prices for anything facilitating this will explode
-people will sell access to their unused accounts for extra buckaroos
-Chinese games companies will desperately cuddle up to Western markets because they were just cancelled in China the same way cram schools were
-possibly rise of decentralized, privately hosted gaming in China

-Blizzard just lost their target audience for Diablo: Immortal

 

[The handsome tard]

Its one thing to motivate lesser game time through actual education and teaching...

But that would have been too humane and giving the right of choice, so not exactly China's forte if you get what I mean. Besides, we all know there is always hidden agendas into what they do, NOTHING is out of the kindness of their hearts..

 

[Haramburger]

Baby, You Can Drive My Car is the tenth episode of ALF's first season. It originally aired on Dec. 1, 1986.

Plot Summary
Prologue
Lynn in on the phone with her friend Kathy, who is upset Lynn is late picking her up for a Pretenders concert. Willie and Lynn have not arrived back from shopping Alf is watching Wall Street Week, and is surprised to learn that gold is valuable on Earth. He tells Lynn that foam is the most valuable commodity on Melmac, along with gravel, wax, and lint.

Act 1
Willie and Kate arrive home in a tow truck. Bert, the tow truck driver comes and helps carry in the groceries. He gives a freebie, because he had to take their battery after his tow truck broke down, and because he got a greace stain on their carpet. When Lynn laments the fact that the family does not have a second car, Alf suggests they buy her one. Kate and Willie decide that they will pay half the money for a used car, if Lynn gets a part-time job to pay the other half. When Lynn starts to get fatigued with working at Mr. Jim's Chicken and Oysters while going to school at the same time, ALF starts to feel sorry for her. When Lynn serves the family a meal from the restaurant, Alf tells her he has a surprise and to meet him in the garage. He offers a hint and honks a horn. The whole family rushes outside and sees a brand new red Ferrari...

Act 2
Lynn is esctatic about being given the car. Kate asks how he was able to buy it. He explains he got through is broker after selling the gold plumbing from his spaceship and an investment in a mango farm in Oxnard. Alf and Brian suggest to Willie that he sit in the driver's seat. When Willie doesn't allow Lynn to keep the car, Alf suggests that it is because Willie is jealous that his daughter would have a better car than him. All the family goes into the house to discuss it. ALF is still playing with the car and accidentally rolls it out of the driveway and somehow ends up on the freeway that is headed for Oxnard. He calls Willie from the car phone and says he just passed a Motel 6 and that they are having a beekeeper's convention. He tries to give more precise location, but gets cut off. Kate calls the Motel 6 corporate offices and asks which of their locations is having a beekeeper's convention, but learns they all are. Willie and Lynn arrive back having asked the police if there had been a report, but that aside for a pig falling out of a tralier and a lot of people getting bee stings that it was a quiet night, a crashing sound is heard and sees that Alf crashes the car into the garage (for the second time, Willie points out). In the end, ALF decides to sell the Ferrari to pay for the repairs on the garage. The neighbors start calling to complain about damage to their property from the car. Lynn tells Alf how appreciative she was about the gift. Sirens start approaching and a helicopter flies overhead...

Epilogue
Alf and Brian are repairing Willies car. Willie approaches with a basketball and takes it for a spin. He accidentally puts the gear into drive instead of reverse and crashes into the recently patched up garage...

"Baby, You Can Drive My Car" are lyrics from the refrain of the song "Drive My Car" by The Beatles.

I love that your two posts lined up like this

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

Based and roidpilled

 

[Vince McMahon]

I love that your two posts lined up like this
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Join the Hive, alhamidullah

 

[Billy Beer]

You do realize that MLK day is a federal holiday which kids as young as 6 have assemblies and curriculums about annually right? That's the big bad you were building up to in your essay there?

I'm not American, so i can only speak from a Britbong perspective. But if your kids are introduced to that shit at 6, it makes no wonder why you have such shitty race relations over there.

He's being sarcastic...

Notice the usage of the word "gambling", not "gaming".

Was I?

Gaming good, gambling bad. Stopping kids from being addicted to gambling while being blasted by LGBTQ bollox and consooomerism is bad, playing offline games like Fallout 1 or Baldurs Gate is good.

But I'd be concerned with gatcha when it gets out of hand. Kids find ways around asking for mommy's credit card every time they want new premium items. Gatcha has replaced a lot of the premium item sales where you'd just directly buy a new hat or pet or something. So you have to keep trying for what you want, getting ten crap items and one kinda good one. And if you are lucky that hat you wanted. After you spent fat more for it than it would have cost in a direct buy from a premium shop.

This is super-gatcha. The gatcha shit should be illegal IMO. There's no need for it other than to waste your time and rinse your money. Add to this the 'playground effect' where kids don't want to be left out (if, in a party of four kids, three of the kids get one outfit and the forth kid is left out, what do you think the other 3 kids will do? tease, mock and bully number 4 until he gets the costume, at which point he will buy the thing for £20)

The whole concept of it is fucking dirty and should not be allowed, at all.

Japan banned full sheet gatcha, where you have to collect a bunch of bottom tier items from a list to trade up for the good stuff. It's the same con as carnival prizes where you can only win the best prize if you collect all the garbage like pencil toppers and cheap teddies first.

The greedy people who thought of this really had an ace idea. Players fell for it. When I see them defend lootboxes I can't believe how dumb they are. But a fool and their money. You know the rest.

I don't think doing parents jobs for them is the answer though. But I guess it's part of the narrative that Pooh Bear knows best.

The mobilisation of console games has ramped all of this up to 11. Candy crush started it (why the fuck do i have to wait 24 hours to keep playing a game? And why the fuck didn't people kick off rather than being addicted? Oh we know why, it was pushed by marketers and consoomerists, trying to get the new fad off of the ground to make big bank)

Up until recently, i was an avid gamer. But these 'new' tactics make so disgusted with what gaming has become that I've hung my pad up. Every week or so I'll dick about on an RPG. Outside of that, it's dead to me until these practices fuck off out of the industry. Or better yet, the industry crashes and burns.

 

[Atatata]

I don't think this will end well since its just mindless enforcement by the government instead of getting the parents involved and having them slowly teach the child, as soon as that kid becomes an adult/figures out how to get around it, they're going to be unprepared.

Its like a kid raised on no sugar becoming an adult with money.

 

[Hathungor]

The mobilisation of console games has ramped all of this up to 11. Candy crush started it (why the fuck do i have to wait 24 hours to keep playing a game? And why the fuck didn't people kick off rather than being addicted? Oh we know why, it was pushed by marketers and consoomerists, trying to get the new fad off of the ground to make big bank)

Up until recently, i was an avid gamer. But these 'new' tactics make so disgusted with what gaming has become that I've hung my pad up. Every week or so I'll dick about on an RPG. Outside of that, it's dead to me until these practices fuck off out of the industry. Or better yet, the industry crashes and burns.

Gaming is still completely fine, you just won't find the experiences you crave in the same places you used to find them.

Avoid anything AAA and you've already removed 99% of the MTX mafia from your life. Indie games aren't as pretty but paying 10 bucks for the right game will buy you 10 times as many hours of better entertainment than Fifa or Battlefield can provide.

On mobile, there's so many "free" games that most people now expect all mobile games to be free when they're really pay-to-win, gatcha-ridden money sinkholes.
Go to the Premium section of your play store and you'll find tons of games in the up to 10 bucks range that lack any MTX at all. You just need to pay the developer for the game they made once, upfront, like a sane person. Many are direct ports of full Steam games. Just get a decent Bluetooth gamepad and play.

 

[Billy Beer]

Gaming is still completely fine, you just won't find the experiences you crave in the same places you used to find them.

The experiences i like, not crave, are console games and PC RPGs. If i can't find them where they were before, everything isn't completely fine.

Avoid anything AAA and you've already removed 99% of the MTX mafia from your life. Indie games aren't as pretty but paying 10 bucks for the right game will buy you 10 times as many hours of better entertainment than Fifa or Battlefield can provide.

I agree with avoiding AAA and pop-culture games, but indies can suck a fat dick. It's the bottom end of the market pushing up, charging more than they're worth, because AAA studios have killed the glorious B-tier studios.

Man i fucking hate fucking indie games. I played that shit 25 years ago.

On mobile, there's so many "free" games that most people now expect all mobile games to be free when they're really pay-to-win, gatcha-ridden money sinkholes.
Go to the Premium section of your play store and you'll find tons of games in the up to 10 bucks range that lack any MTX at all. You just need to pay the developer for the game they made once, upfront, like a sane person. Many are direct ports of full Steam games. Just get a decent Bluetooth gamepad and play.

I ain't playing mobile games like some hooker. Gaming to me is PC rig and monitor, or pad, console and a TV.

I have no problem paying for games that are worth paying for, but what's on the horizon that isn't shit, dross, indies, butchered remakes, brain-dead collectathons, gatchas and mobile games on console?

I'm sure you mean well in your post, but you come across as a Neogaf fart huffer who defends the fucking abysmal state of games. At best, because you are too young to be aware of the golden times, at worst because you're an industry shill.

Sincere apologies if I have read this wrong. Too many years on too many gaming forums, arguing with too many retards and shills, only for me to be proven correct, has left me very very bitter and jaded.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Kids love pinball

Oooh. Shiny ball hitting shiny things.

 

[LurkTrawl]

Enjoy having a generation that grows up to be one of the following:

Dull and uninspired, robotic, unthinkingly loyal to the party due to propaganda exposure but with no capacity for original thought.
Savvy at avoiding government intervention measures, getting better at it as they near adulthood.
Have encyclopedic knowledge, probably from reading; but with next to no actual personality to speak of.
Will leave the actual first moment they can for a different country so their kids don't have to put up with what they did. - And finally
Will grow up resenting their government for being authoritarian and top-down, angry that their parents weren't given a choice.

All in all, sounds like a retarded overreach to solve a small problem. It is not and should not be considered society's problem if you're a shit parent and your kid grows up to be shit. Top-down, reaching-into-homes shit like this never ends well no matter how good the intentions were.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Limit the troons to 3 hours of Twitter a week

 

[mario if smoke weed]

It shouldn't be government mandated but the government needs to restrict these video game publishers/designers in to adding elements in to the game over which the player has no control, for the sole purpose of pushing sales. For example; EA monitors your vocal patterns on your headset, the more angry you get the harder they make the game, they then push 'buffs' on you via sales and/or DLC, so that you're more likely to purchase these items.

I'm cool with the gov't getting rid of gatcha games and gambling, shit's dumb and extremely predatory and an actual problem for easily impressionable kids. In an ideal world, nobody shouldn't have to pay for dumb pixels or advantages.

Adults suffer from the pixel addiction too. Back in the heyday of TF2 trading I encountered one of the admins of a TF2 trading group, a lady who spent thousands on a collection of unusual Team Captains - the burning one included. She had a husband and a pre-teen son, and they sacrificed vacations for the sake of virtual flashing knockoff M. Bison hats. I'd assume part of the money spent was on keys. I'd say it'd be cool if they at the very least limited how much all players - adults included - could spend on online gambling since many adults lack the discipline not to throw their money into the void of 0s and 1s.

Limit the troons to 3 hours of Twitter a week

Dude that's basically half of Twitter. They'd never.