PK'ing Banned in China For Minors

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 4, 2005 @01:21AM from the only-leads-to-violence-if-you-have-bigger-issues dept.

Evoluder writes "Just saw this over on worldofwar.net as it appears to apply to WoW as well. A story at interfax.com says China just passed a law prohibiting minors from playing games that allow players to kill each other (i.e., player killing)." From the article: "Minors should not be allowed to play online games that have PK content, that allow players to increase the power of their own online game characters by killing other players...Online games that have PK content usually also contain acts of violence and leads to players spending too much time trying to increase the power of their characters. They are harmful to young people."

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Jack Thompson's Chinese now? by BlackCobra43 · 2005-08-04 01:23 · Score: 2, Funny

;) Seriously, this is ludicrous. You might as well ban dodgeball be....oh....nevermind..

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Next step by zeda · 2005-08-04 01:41 · Score: 2, Funny

Ban noobs.
Obligatory Pun by slughead · 2005-08-04 02:11 · Score: 2, Funny

PK'ing banned in Peiking!

Funny that a country that a country that kills demonstrators would have such a problem with virtual killing.

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Re:Say what? by Monkelectric · 2005-08-04 02:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Sex is bad because, sexual union is an important part of happiness. Happy people don't buy things. Same with marijuana.

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