You can only play video games for 90 minutes a day in China. Do you think this is a good idea?

[Yuzu]

If you're under 18 in China, you can only play video games for 90 minutes a day. On the weekend, the time limit is extended to 3 hours per day. They also limit the amount of money you can spend on microtransactions and ban gaming after 10pm until 8am the next morning.

How do you feel about this?

[gugnihr]

Microtransactions should be banned everywhere.

Those rules does not seem too bad for a young kid under 18 years of age, everything considered, but it isa bad that they are forced by the government..

It should be up to parents to determine those things and decide how to raise their kids.

Obviously parents can make errors, for example when my parents forced me to do other things often those things were so obnoxious for me that now that I'm 41 years old I can only remember how much I hated sunday and holidays and the places where they decided to go and the things they wanted to do and the time I spent with them, and this is absolutely not a good thing. And made my addiction to videogames even more strong.

But the fact that the government interfere in those things is wrong in itself, even without taking into account mistakes like those.

[Irene ❤]

I think it is just about money.

Gaming has been around since 1980, why set the rules only now? Because only by today there are microtransaction and there are expensive skins.

Other countries have set rules against unboxing and gambling. China's decision is to create a distance between the player and the game.

I think it doesn't work. Mobile games with microtransaction does not require the player to play pvp. It can be a simple stickman needing more weapons and it can be a 1 hour short game. The concept is to create the desire to buy.

If I'm the government, I will enforce education on Visualization. Compulsory for children to learn it in school at very young age. Why do people unbox? Because they visualize that they could win something rare. Why do people buy power ups and gems? Because they visualize getting more dps numbers and winning. Nobody is trained to visualize on losing.

https://i.imgur.com/V6GMCwx.png

If people can visualize on losing, money lost and self-hurt through education, people can make better decisions and it can prevent all temptation made by the greedy companies.

[makew_3410]

i wish western countries did the same lol

[lightwo]

The Chinese enforce so much control, it's scary. There must be a reason, and not for good. It sounds a little contradictory since the Chinese government invests big in gaming, but maybe they want to drain more long-term work out of their citizens.

[Cockroach]

Nothing like communism puts you in the right order.

[BanOphobia My Struggle]

Messaggio originale di NotABraveEnoughBoyForThis:

This... well... really begs for construction of LIBERTY PRIME!

Yeah and if built in this world all the parts would be made in China and a China bootleg version would be out in no time.

[Murassa [TR]]

Lmao, thats just stupid and It doesnt make any sense

90 min? Holy crap ,a csgo match can actually be longer ,even though the average match is 30/45 min

Yoo even a football match is actually longer than that

[Thesaintdog]

Messaggio originale di Murassa TR:

Lmao, thats just stupid and It doesnt make any sense

90 min? Holy crap ,a csgo match can actually be longer ,even though the average match is 30/45 min

Yoo even a football match is actually longer than that

i second this.

[Volfogg]

Messaggio originale di Tongue in Cheek Way of the Wang:

Messaggio originale di NotABraveEnoughBoyForThis:

This... well... really begs for construction of LIBERTY PRIME!

Yeah and if built in this world all the parts would be made in China and a China bootleg version would be out in no time.

And thus... the American Dream fades... Boooring...

[gugnihr]

Messaggio originale di Irene ❤:

I think it is just about money.

I think that it's justthe government being afraid that addictions (videogames addiction in this particular case) could make their population less productive, which is the only thing they care about.

They don't even understand that forcing restrictions in some cases could make an addiction stronger instead of preventing it.

[Naedmi]

It's a bit strange when a government has to step in to forcefully raise your children. That would be grounds for a revolt in many countries.

[FAlty75]

Messaggio originale di swillfly:

So what happens if a boy is in violation?

Is he shot or just castrated?

He is sent to the concentration camp.

[Panazois λ]

I don't understand how this works. How do they know their age and how would they do that in a house computer?

[Panazois λ]

Messaggio originale di Murassa TR:

Lmao, thats just stupid and It doesnt make any sense

90 min? Holy crap ,a csgo match can actually be longer ,even though the average match is 30/45 min

Yoo even a football match is actually longer than that

"On the weekend, the time limit is extended to 3 hours per day."

[𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ]

Messaggio originale di Panazois λ パナギオチス:

I don't understand how this works. How do they know their age and how would they do that in a house computer?

It's China.