China is imposing a gaming curfew... thoughts?

[Mrstique]

The BBC reported;

China is imposing a curfew on online gaming for minors, their government has announced. Gamers under 18 will be banned from playing online between 22:00 and 08:00. They will also be restricted to 90 minutes of gaming on weekdays and three hours on weekends and holidays.

Just wondered what people thought about this, in regard to the global implictions / precedent and also in terms of whether its fair to limit online gaming whilst appearing to totally ignore young peoples apparent dependence on their phones (social media etc), which personally, I would say is considerably more problematic and widespread.

Just for context, I'm an older gamer, so perhaps its a generational thing though! :)

[JellyPuff]

Good luck enforcing this. Can't outright ban games, because they are too profitable and popular, so i guess that was their next best masterplan. Fascists are so stupid.

Makes me wonder what would've happened if the scapegoat-searchers of yore, who have decided to blame videogames for everything wrong in the world, had that much power.

[Start_Running]

JellyPuff eredeti hozzászólása:

Good luck enforcing this. Can't outright ban games, because they are too profitable and popular, so i guess that was their next best masterplan. Fascists are so stupid.

THey actually have the means to do so. All games, and gaming clients in china are required to have certain 'features'.

Makes me wonder what would've happened if the scapegoat-searchers of yore, who have decided to blame videogames for everything wrong in the world, had that much power.

The better question is, Could china be right? I mean less time gaming is more time sopent in productive endeavours like study.

LIke I said, the test of this will be in 20 years or so when the fruits of this policy come in.

Maybe they'll be able to avoid having a population that thinks a horse dewormer is a subsrtitute for an actual vaccine :p

[Burgundy_β]

less Chinese cheater epidemic

[Burgundy_β]

What happen with Steam News content section?

There is no more news feed from Rock-Paper-Shotgun, PC Gamers, and other gaming journalist company

[Fake]

Don't live in china. Problem solved.

[ReBoot]

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ReBoot eredeti hozzászólása:

China is a dictatorship. I'm willing to bet this isn't the biggest problem of the Chinese population. I know I'd be stressed by social scoring were I to live in one, and the pressure to deliver, to work, to compete for high positions is so huge, there's a movement among Chinese youth to get out of the threadmill and live on some minimum.

Having one's gamingb hours limited for the sake of it sucks, yes. But if there's bigger problems, that one may not play a huge role in the grand scheme of things.

I hate to break the news to you but you are living under a social score or do you think having a different opinion about Trump/Biden, Covid, Vaccine etc will not get your fired, blocked or banned from certain Areas?

Civilized countries got working (as in "both enforcable and being enforced") laws against such crap. It's illegal to fire people for several reasons where I live & work. I've been in therapy for 7 weeks once, didn't get fired for that. Political opinions ain't mentioned anywhere and I personally find it actually sad, that we don't have mandatory vaccinations to get into office, because personal freedom is important. Plus, I'm in a union. Yeah...