Title should read: China has forbidden under-18s from playing VIDEO games for more than three hours/week
China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
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Re: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
#132I wonder how Blizzard is feeling about throwing in with the CCP right about now
They're having too much fun harassing employees to care.
Re: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
#133Wrong title.
Online games are forbidden, not all games.
You can download and play many steam games.
Edit: or pirated games.
Re: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
#134I 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…
You shouldn't have mixed feelings. This is an attack on human free will.
UK lets children drink.
Re: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
#135Like with Bitcoin regulation, good luck to the governments with enforcement.
Didn't China successfully shut down a bunch of miners recently?
Re: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
#136I 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…
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Re: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
#137Anyone want to argue why this would be bad, apart from restricting freedom? BTW, nothing in the article about limits on TikTok or YouTube or whathaveyougot. That's as much opium as gaming, IMO.
And offline games. I was perfectly addicted with 0 internet, thank you very much. Although I do understand that the world wasn't ever-connected back then.
Re: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
#138"...coaches of the Chinese Olympic volleyball teams decry this move, saying 'it will condemn our great nation to certain defeat in 2024'". /s
(Though to look at reaction here on HN, doing a 's/games/video games/' in the title would be utterly superfluous.)
Re: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
#139Talk about a capacity planning pain for the game companies.
Your entire Of course there are solutions like scheduled auto-scaling but still, I guarantee that's going to cause some outages at least in the beginning.
Re: China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week
#140I wonder why China feels so afraid of games.
Parents hate games.
The governament is ran by parents.
That's why.