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South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths

Posted by Soulskill on from the probably-just-making-more-time-for-starcraft dept.

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."

6 of 148 comments (clear)

  1. Great! by Computer_kid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now more kids are going to be on my lawn!

  2. Re:Government bailout by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    And those commie bastards in NK better not even think about trying a zerg rush...

  3. Oh thank God by masmullin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now the rest of us can compete in PvP!!!

  4. Re:Freedom? by zarzu · · Score: 2, Funny

    ah yes, all those kids playing mmorpgs instead of screwing the hot cheerleaders. haven't we all been there?

  5. Re:Make it universal by selven · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  6. As opposed to... by MessedRocker · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.