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Chinese Government to Put a Time Limit on Gaming

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the power-gamers-are-bad dept.

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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  1. Do the same thing with books by Nice2Cats · · Score: 4, Funny
    You know, with all the noise about how evil online gaming is, I must say that books are actually a lot worse. Online, you can meet people, talk to them, socialize, make friends -- but the next time you are in some public place like a train station, take a look at somebody who is reading a book. All they do is sit there, blank-faced, dead to the world, completely anti-social, not willing to even acknowledge that there are other people around them. Reading at home turns you into a zombie whose only thought is the plot and only action is to turn the next page. People like that just have to develop strange tendencies. And history shows us what can happen to people who read: mass suicides, for one.

    Note, too, that evil people write books, not computer games. Hitler or Mao, a piece of them will always live on in a book. The people who blow themselves up in the name of Islam in Iraq, Israel and lately London do it because of what they read in a book, not because their character on WoW does it.

    China has got it all wrong, again. If they really wanted to do themselves (and us) a favor, they would make sure their population can't read.

  2. Re:China's priorities.... by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

    The explanation: Are you having fun yet? Well, we'll see what we can do about that. You can't have too much fun, is what I've always said.

    No, really. You CANNOT have too much fun. It's forbidden.

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    Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
  3. Re:Avoiding deaths? by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can we just skip the political flame war and get right to the ultimate and ugly use of an Adolf Hitler analogy? That might save some time for everybody I think.

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    Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
  4. Re:They better be prepared... by Seumas · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't get it.

    Are you saying they're all going to catch a cold?

  5. Thus begins the Chinese Revolution by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The moment my government tries to prevent me from gaming more than three hours is the moment I start guerilla warfare.

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    God spoke to me.
  6. Re:Avoiding deaths? by FlopEJoe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will someone please think of the farmers??!? Don't they have a right to make 50 cents an hour collecting Lineage II thorns or thistles or whatever the fscle they collect and sell for real money?