A recent report from the China National Children's Centre said that 13% of under-18s who used the web were addicted to online gaming. The Chinese government has clamped down on the amount of time youngsters can spend playing online games: more than three consecutive hours a day will result in limited points that can be scored. Determined gamers who play for more than five hours will get no points at all and face an on-screen warning that they are entering "unhealthy game time". Online game companies based in China have been given three months (until July 15) to install the so-called anti-addiction software.
In order to verify their age, gamers will be required to register for games using their real names and identity card number. Beijing-based analyst firm CCID Consulting estimates that there are 17.8 million fee-paying gamers in China, about 20% of which are under 20 years old. A farther 10% are younger than 16. Last month, the Chinese authorities banned any new cyber cafes from opening this year in an effort to combat addiction. It has also set up a department, charged with monitoring the content of games. Games which offer a view of history at odds with the official version in China, such as the Swedish game Heart of Iron which shows Tibet as an independent state, have been banned. Boot-camps have been set up to provide military-style training in an effort to wean youngsters away from the net.
News source: BBC News
In order to verify their age, gamers will be required to register for games using their real names and identity card number. Beijing-based analyst firm CCID Consulting estimates that there are 17.8 million fee-paying gamers in China, about 20% of which are under 20 years old. A farther 10% are younger than 16. Last month, the Chinese authorities banned any new cyber cafes from opening this year in an effort to combat addiction. It has also set up a department, charged with monitoring the content of games. Games which offer a view of history at odds with the official version in China, such as the Swedish game Heart of Iron which shows Tibet as an independent state, have been banned. Boot-camps have been set up to provide military-style training in an effort to wean youngsters away from the net.
News source: BBC News
It's unbelievable for a history studyer to read those kind of things...
Looks like people were so much more concerned on important things on the middle ages than now...
Imagine... the government concern in one of the biggest countrys of the world, with the most growning economy is...
People stop playing with theyr little toys?!
wtf...
Am I awake?
...Is anybody?
Thank you.
I guess that the thing is just the valor that is being atributed to those details today, while lots of big things are being ignored. Im not raising a flag or something like it... just comenting something i note.
well im sure some of this has to due with people actually dropping dead in these shops... so .. perhaps as long as this doesnt start to happen in the UK you will be ok...
well im sure some of this has to due with people actually dropping dead in these shops... so .. perhaps as long as this doesnt start to happen in the UK you will be ok...
Never because the UK aren't communist douche bags? Just a thought...
You don't think the UK government has high control over us?
I think he was referring to things like this:
http://www.privacyinternational.org/articl...5D=x-347-545269
and this:
http://www.privacyinternational.org/survey...r2005spread.jpg
Compare the UK to that communist country for example.
If the world was only so simple that the form of government decided how well they behaved. :-p
You don't think the UK government has high control over us?
Good because I meant to. You cannot even compare non communist government to communist china. It's rediculous, and a waiste of humanity.
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Then they need to get a life.
honestly i was never big on the online gaming thing (i never played any online games) buuut i did spend a TON of time playing single player games and such... im in third year uni now and have a job, girlfriend and a ton of classes/homework to balance, games are now something i only do maybe on a weekend for an hour or two with my roommate. And i like it that way, u can feel games eating away at your social life
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