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Chinese Gamers Circumvent Anti-Obsession Measures
Turtlewind writes "A survey by iResearch China shows that the Chinese Government's "anti obsession" measures, reported on Slashdot last year, are being bypassed by MMORPG gamers. While the controls - which force operators of popular games such as World of Warcraft to impose penalties on players who play for more than three to five hours a day - were welcomed by almost half of Chinese gamers, a core of around 14% of players admitted to registering multiple accounts to get around the restrictions. Meanwhile, the government seems to be taking a different approach to the problem of gaming addiction, planning a campaign over the upcoming summer vacation to increase enforcement of laws banning minors from internet cafes."
Well, a change is as good as a rest!
Meta will eat itself
If this won't start an uprising in China, nothing will.
Addicts find ways to break rules to get fix... Holy Hell my world is collapsing...
I know how the gold farmers among those affected must feel.. I once had a full-time job cut me down to part-time hours.
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I have another suggestion for the Chinese government, why don't they create a squad of Orcs that patrols WoW looking for lazy unproductive Chinese players and executes them in game?
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I totally agree with what you say... ...but doesn't it intrigue you that, after 8 hours of office work, you usually end the day feeling like shit. And after the same 8 hours of lan partying with friends, you usually leave feeling renewed?
Just my two cents!
If I clone myself, can I call it a thread?
If a girl winks to us, can I call it a race condition?
I have a teen aged punk ass that locks himself in his room with his gaming machine flanked by two laptop's playing Lineage all day -the damn lawn is getting tall and I could sure use a dose of this in my household.
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I always figured that's why it was called "work."
Will you marry me? ;)
Doesn't your ass get numb?
Only when I ride him bare-back.
Plus, he hates video games.
As a rule, I never trust dark brown ketchup.
So they let people play on-line games? Maybe a group of people should start accounts and use the dialog capabilities in the games to pass along news and info and get past the censorship they have on the rest of the web.
My dwarf warrior will be named "Tiananmen Massacre".
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Where are there parents while they spend so many hours per day at these places? I think that they should bare some responsibility for their children's actions.
To be fair, the parents are busy spending 15 hour work days making your iPods in slave like conditions. Are you feeling any better now?
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
I think Jonathon Swift had a Modest Proposal to deal with situations like this...
Information wants a fueled airplane waiting at the hangar and no one gets hurt.
You wear clothes 14 hours/day? Sounds like an addiction to me. Lets propose a law to ban that sort of thing.
It's like the idiots who were trying to criminalize junk food. Without a law to forbid me, I never eat the crap. If someone tried to make it I'd eat two bags of cheetos, smoke 3 packs a day and wash it all down with a few bottles of whiskey. Just for spite.
That explains your heroine and crack addictions.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.