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China seeks to 'limit game hours'
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Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:52 pm Reply and quote this post
The Chinese government has clamped down on the amount of time youngsters can spend playing online games, according to the official news agency Xinhua.

Under-18s who play for more than three consecutive hours a day will have limits imposed on the amount of points they can score, the agency reported.

China is such a big and important market. Companies are ready to make compromises. We have seen it with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft and I can see gaming companies tailoring games for the Chinese market.

What do you think? It will probably in my opinion be heavily enforced like the great firewall of china; but obviously ways will be made to get around any system enforced; however due to the communist regieme, I doubt a large proportion of people would take such things up.

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Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:28 am Reply and quote this post
China has limited the daily WoW playtime to i think 5 hours, after that you get less experience reward!
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Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:59 am Reply and quote this post
what i think is
there should time limitations for under-18 i all country as they are students!!

But hmm great sorrow for china!!

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Sat Apr 14, 2007 4:53 pm Reply and quote this post
sa_rocky wrote:
what i think is
there should time limitations for under-18 i all country as they are students!!

But hmm great sorrow for china!!


Everything limited by the state limits the freedom of the individual...

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