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China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
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#292This will destroy the Chinese games industry and this may have broader implications than just stocks in free fall. Video game programming is very cutting edge technology (eg. 3D graphics, animation, wayfinding, and more). China throwing this industry away will mean there are no home grown video game programmers which will have implications on their entire software engineering capability. This gives the rest of the wo…
Honestly, it'll just destroy the shitty gambling microtransaction games.
Most studios will focus on offline games again, back to old-school games.
Honestly, I'm a fan of this. No harm done to anything worth saving.
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#293And just like that, China's competitive Dota scene will disappear.
I wonder how this will effect the Perfect World/Valve partnership.
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#294I am appalled by all the supportive comments in this thread. Why are HN users so comfortable with authoritarian government? It’s about more than just online games. It’s about control. I’m sure the great firewall is perfectly fine as well?
Governments are always about control, that's why they exist, the question is, to what extent?
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#295This will destroy the Chinese games industry and this may have broader implications than just stocks in free fall. Video game programming is very cutting edge technology (eg. 3D graphics, animation, wayfinding, and more). China throwing this industry away will mean there are no home grown video game programmers which will have implications on their entire software engineering capability. This gives the rest of the wo…
Tencent et al already get a single digit percentage of their revenue from minor users on online games. It will not kill them.
There is also a massively underdeveloped market for single player Chinese games that is only recently starting that will benefit massively from this decision.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
Technically, the state doesn't place restrictions on the kids, which is legally impossible, they place restrictions on the digital entertainment business where they are required to allow entry for kid for no longer than said duration.
> Technically, the state doesn't place restrictions on the kids, which is legally impossible, What makes that legally impossible in China? ( edit or do you just mean hard to enforce? I thought you meant something different by "legally impossible", I may have misunderstood).
The hills are high and the emperor is far away.
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#297I learned English playing Starcraft Shareware with a bunch of Canadians. I learned about money, economics, marketing, psychology and social skills via Runescape. I used games as an escape from my hell on earth childhood. And yet, I see this and think... maybe they're onto something. Today's games are engineered to rake in and manufacture addicts. People who don't know what dark design patterns are. Forgive my French…
And yet, this fights the symptom, not the cause. Regulation should target companies that manufacture said addictive products, not dictate how citizens should behave under the guise of protection
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#298I am appalled by all the supportive comments in this thread. Why are HN users so comfortable with authoritarian government? It’s about more than just online games. It’s about control. I’m sure the great firewall is perfectly fine as well?
Some people don't like this move personally, but at the same time appreciate diversity of value systems around the world. Its a hedge. If the whole world followed the same value system, a systemic flaw could result in much disaster.
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#299I have mixed feelings about this. Younger me learned a lot of problem solving skills and most importantly spent a lot of time learning how to read by playing RPGs and games that required lots of reading. My reading skills would not have been as advanced if i wasn't playing text heavy games that had a lot of plot like Square Enix games and the CRPGs of the time. Modern games though are clearly designed to get you as a…
Thinking about this a different way. We have seen the games that come out that exist to get you to play as long as possible look like. What will the games that exist to be so awesome that if you get to play only an hour a day that want you to come back again look like? Will they make sure that hour is highly enjoyable and engaging instead of grindy? Is that a more sustainable model for game devs? At least its a chang…
For me the prime example of good, challenging, but non-addictive game is GCompris, a collection of kids activities. Open source as well.
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it really depends. I have way too many personal anecdotes of people I knew from back in the day (middle/high school) who gamed like 8 hours a day. Most of those people were _addicted_, and a handful went on to drop out of college and aren't really doing that great today. They still play 8+ hours a day.. I remember I'd ask them if they wanted to study, or if they want to go hiking or do something IRL, but they…
If someone is putting off other important things in their life to play video games then that's definitely a problem. However, if people want to set aside 100% of their free time to play video games, I don't think that's any worse than other things people do with their time that we (as a society) hold in high regard such as becoming a chess grandmaster, practicing violin 12 hours / day, watching football games nonstop…
Struggling to come up with a logical counter argument but learning a musical instrument is deeply satisfy as is listening to someone live who is good. Also maybe just in terms of being attractive to other people saying you are a level 122 mage in world of ever crack does not quite have the same allure as being able to captivate a room with your piano playing.
Edit when I was about 12 I started playing the guitar non stop, I remember clearly thinking to myself this is way better than playing the super nes. I didn't touch games for another five years, I gave Goldeneye a go at a friend's house and reignighted that addiction.