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South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths
eldavojohn writes "GamePolitics reports that South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has announced two new policies that will force underage gamers to pick a six-hour block of time (midnight-6 AM,1-7 AM, or 2-8 AM) where they will not be able to play 19 online role-playing games. While it targets most popular MMORPGs, some popular games like Lineage were left off the list."
Now more kids are going to be on my lawn!
Lineage 2 is critical to national security, you wouldn't understand.
And those commie bastards in NK better not even think about trying a zerg rush...
Now the rest of us can compete in PvP!!!
Like drinking and prostitutes? Texas street anyone?
ah yes, all those kids playing mmorpgs instead of screwing the hot cheerleaders. haven't we all been there?
I know, it'll be great. Let's go and ban all the other undesirable elements of society while we're at it, and productivity will shoot through the roof! I say start with alcohol.
As opposed to North Korea, where you can spend as much time on MMOs as you'd like. Except the only MMO is standing guard at the DMZ, awaiting an attack by the South Koreans or the Americans. And it's not a game.
Just moved into Seoul about two weeks ago. There are internet cafe's that advertise MMO's *everywhere*. I think within a mile radius of where I'm staying, I've seen at least 7 or 8, and quite possibly more than that. I don't get the appeal of these things...I tried WoW once, and it just seemed like a drawn out walking simulator to me!