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PK'ing Banned in China For Minors
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."
A lot of people saying this is ludicrous, and as much as I agree, the game ratings boards, PEGI - BBFO etc all rate PK games above 15 years of age usually, unless its non graphic and isn't violent
Business Voyeur
From the CIA World Factbook:
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.13 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.91 male(s)/female
total population: 1.06 male(s)/female (2005 est.)
I don't know where that 4:1 figure came from, it's totally preposterous. How could such a ratio come about? Infanticide may happen occasionally, but not in 3 out of 4 female births.
Makes sense. From my understanding of how the Linage ][ Chinese (or was it Korean?) servers work, there's an age limit. If you're over 18, you get to play on the adult servers (includes PvP); everyone else can play on the kiddie servers (PvE only!). In another slightly-interesting note, they recently took out a simple in-game dice game as folks were using it to gamble real world money.
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For those of you who don't know what PK'ing is...
PK'ing usualy takes place in MMORPGs (Massively Multyplayer Online Role Playing Games), although there are several other genres in which this happens (FPS, Tps, Paper and pencel RPG, et al), this article is mostly aimed at MMORPGs, WOW(world of warcraft), Ever quest, et al. PK'ing is when you kill a virtual character, with your virtual character, and the virtual character that you killed is controlled directly by a human.
and he said pwnt n006, and it was good
"Chess, Checkers, Mahjong, etc. etc."
Mahjongg doesn't include any violence at all. Single-player games just have you remove the tiles, while the multiplayer game is about collecting groups of tiles under rules similar to Canasta.