Chinese Government to Put a Time Limit on Gaming

Flyph writes "The Chinese Government unveiled a new online gaming timer mechanism that will try to prevent gamers from playing online games for more than three hours at a time. From the article: '"This timing mechanism can prevent young people from becoming addicted to online games," Kou Xiaowei, Deputy Director of the Audiovisual and Internet Publication Department of the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), said during a press conference.' Maybe this is a way to prevent the goldfarming that goes on in MMORPGs." Of course, China may just want to avoid a tragedy similar to the recent South Korean man's death covered on Slashdot.

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You're clueless

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That bit you quoted doesn't say anything about characters being de-leveled. Second, if you could level from 20 to 40 that fast before they found whatever bug you were using, you're probably playing those games too much anyways. Finally, if you're level 40 but still wearing level 30 junk, you need an upgrade badly.