Citizens under 18 will only game 3 hours a week

[casual]

What about the pro gamers? This is a family issue not a government issue.

 

[Indos]

This one is better

 

[Beast]

What about the pro gamers? This is a family issue not a government issue.

Pro gamers must be 18 years and above.

 

[Suika]

CCP Nanny state.

 

[fitpOsitive]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1432277087830908931

Wah. I liked the idea.

 

[Beast]

CCP Nanny state.

Rather than letting it's new generation of citizen rot and decay.

See how Japanese teen do **** and american kids take drug and alcohol party will appreciate CCP effort in China.

 

[Nasr]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1432277087830908931

Gaming has destroyed millions of young minds who would have instead excelled in becoming physicists, biologists, intellectuals of law, business innovators and environmental pioneers. At a young age, the mind is untrained, does not have the ability to set limits and rationalize with what modern western civilization has produced ... codm, pornhub, netflix, hollywood and etcetera. Hence it is important for not only China, but also Pakistan to focus on providing the sort of environment for the children to grow up in which produces intellect who would lead their nations into future that is bright and prosperous.

 

[Unknown-V]

Kids in China : I want to play online game all day

Chinese government :

 

[MH.Yang]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1432277087830908931

Hopefully developers will now focus more on Single player games with good stories instead of relying on crappy online games with micro transactions.

Although the state is infringing on the rights of the people, I think this is necessary to curb online gaming addiction amongst teens. A few days ago there was a guy in India who spent 10 lac rupees ($13,500) in PUBG from his parents bank account. A lot of similar stories can be seen across India.

But this kind of system would be almost impossible to implement in free countries.

If it's really for online games, it's probably good news. More for RPG and SP games.

Wait how are you going to enforce this?

Man most games now are multiplayer or co-op. Nobody asks us if we want to play with other people,they just go like "Hey,everyone's making their games multiplayer,we have to make all our games multiplayer too".

This one is better

Kids in China : I want to play online game all day

Chinese government :

This is China E-sports League. There are more than 6000 professional E-sports athletes in China, and almost all athletes are less than 18 years old.

Excuse me, if that news is true, how do these athletes train?
Why doesn't the Chinese government ban such events?
And the Chinese government even organized the national team of E-sports!

 

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China to ban kids from playing online games for more than three hours per week
PUBLISHED MON, AUG 30 20219:52 AM ED


KEY POINTS

• China plans to limit kids’ video game play time to just three hours a week.
• Under 2019 rules, people under were allowed to play games for 1½ hours a day on most days.
• The rules will apply to companies providing online game services to minors, limiting their ability to serve those users outside of designated hours.

Kids and teens under 18 years old in China will only be allowed up to three hours per week to play online video games, according to new rules published Monday by China’s National Press and Publication Administration.

The move is a fresh blow to the country’s gaming giants from Tencent to NetEase, which have dealt with an onslaught of regulation this year in areas from anti-monopoly to data protection. That has spooked investors and dented the value of Chinese tech stocks.

According to a translated notice about the new rules, people under 18 will be allowed to play video games one hour a day between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. weekends and legal holidays. The agency billed the rules as a way to safeguard children’s physical and mental health.

The rules will apply to companies providing online game services to minors, limiting their ability to serve those users outside of designated hours. The companies also will not be allowed to provide services to users who haven’t logged in with real-name registration, preventing them from simply remaining ignorant to their users’ backgrounds.

The latest rules from the NPPA significantly reduce the amount of time minors can play online games. Under 2019 rules, people under 18 were allowed to play games for 1½ hours a day on most days.


“There are over 110 million minors that play video games in China today, and we expect the new limits to lead to a decline in the number of players and a reduction in the amount of time and money spent in game by those under 18,” Niko Partners senior analyst Daniel Ahmad said.

“However, we do not expect the decline in spend to have a significant material impact on the bottom line of game companies given limits on time and spending have already been in place for minors for the past two years. Therefore, we expect a softer impact on overall growth rates as spending among minors was already low.”

Tencent has previously said only a small amount of gaming revenue comes from younger players in China. In the second quarter, 2.6% of gross game receipts in China were from players under 16 years old.

U.S.-listed shares of NetEase, one of China’s gaming giants, slid 4% on Monday.

Tencent said in a statement that it will implement the new requirements and that it supports the new rules. The Chinese gaming giant has taken measures to pre-empt the regulators in recent months. In July, Tencent introduced a requirement for gamers to do a facial recognition scan on their phone to verify if they are an adult.

NetEase was not immediately available for comment when contacted by CNBC.

For a long time, Beijing has been worried about gaming addiction amongst the country’s youth. Gaming consoles were banned for around 14 years until 2014. And a state-affiliated publication ran an article this month branding online gaming as “opium” and calling for further restrictions. The article was taken down and later republished with a new headline and references to “opium” removed. But it raised concern among investors that further gaming restrictions could come.

This month, Tencent warned it expected further regulation but was confident it could be compliant.

China to ban kids from playing online games for more than three hours per week

Under 2019 rules, people under 18 were allowed to play games for 1½ hours a day on most days.

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This will severely damage your eSports industry. Wtf is CPC thinking?

 

[Zsari]

CCP Nanny state.

The state plays a parental role in Confucius society. What have you learned spending all these time in Japan?

 

[kankan326]

This is China E-sports League. There are more than 6000 professional E-sports athletes in China, and almost all athletes are less than 18 years old.

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Excuse me, if that news is true, how do these athletes train?
Why doesn't the Chinese government ban such events?
And the Chinese government even organized the national team of E-sports!

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Not an important thing compared with country's future.

 

[kankan326]

This will severely damage your eSports industry. Wtf is CPC thinking?

Esport is nothing.

 

[MH.Yang]

Not an important thing compared with country's future.

NO, it is an important thing! I'm a fans of IG team!

In the future, China E-sports will develop a market no smaller than NBA.

 

[arjunk]

Meanwhile in America, you have a whole generation of soy sipping sissies coming up. We might just see the fall of America as a superpower in the next 30 years.