The PRC vs. Gamers

[Joseph]

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[Imran Siddiqui]

3 hours is plenty of game time for one game.

[Winston]

They can't allow their people to forget about virulently hating the Japanese for more than 3 hours at a time.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by Winston
They can't allow their people to forget about virulently hating the Japanese for more than 3 hours at a time.

There are plenty of games they can play that lets them beat on the Japanese.

[mindseye]

Two quick points:

(1) Laws, rules and regulations in China are not the same as in the west. Western media often neglect to mention this when breathlessly reporting on the latest new law in China.

Laws & regulations may be enforced, selectively enforced, or not enforced at all. If young Chinese want to spend money at net bars, you better believe Chinese net bar owners will find ways to accomodate them, regardless of some regulation on the books thousands of miles away in Beijing.


(2) Online gaming really is a big social problem here. For many teens, Counter Strike is their number one pastime,nothing else even comes close. Many of my students are teenagers, and the amount of time some of them spend sitting on their asses, smoking and eating junk food while playing online in their bedrooms or at net bars is frightening. It affects their weight, health, studies, and their social skills.

I know some of my students cut class (these are expensive classes their parents pay for) to go across the street to play Counter Strike instead. Recently, I had a chubby teen student who claimed his ideal job would be to legally kill people. Several times in class he mentioned his desire to kill people. Naturally, he's a Counter Strike addict. Also here in Shanghai, a guy recently knifed another to death over a dispute involving some treasure won in an online game.

Online gaming in China is a different problem than in the US, and I can easily understand the government's concerns.

[Verto]

One quick point: China is a ****ing abomination that should've been bombed into oblivion decades ago.

[Frozzy]

China banned HoI2 because it has Japan in control of Formosa... go figure.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
UR, have you ever played Civ for more than 3 hours?

When you have people die from playing Civ let me know.

Again, the usual suspects fly off the handle and start frothing at the mouth before they even try to understand the situation.

[Skanky Burns]

How many people have died from playing between 3 and 5 hours?

[Atahualpa]

How can you play WoW with only 3 consecutive hours?

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Atahualpa
How can you play WoW with only 3 consecutive hours?

That's the beauty of this law

[Provost Harrison]

World of Women?

[VetLegion]

Want of Women more likely

[C0ckney]

they banned football manager 2005 because it treated taiwan as a seperate country.

i somehow doubt that restricting people's gaming is going to help things much, there's still going to be lots of bored, frustrated young men and not enough birds to go round...

[Atahualpa]

retarded country
Imagine the US to do this and how much criticism that would provoke. But china can do it...