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China to Curb Excessive Online Games Spending in New Tightening (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3073672

In this whole article there are only two paragraphs that are not useless word salad:

The government now wants to set a cap on how much money each player can spend within a title, according to the draft.

The regulations also asked that game publishers operating abroad respect Chinese laws and culture and refrain from endangering national security, without elaborating. Tencent is the world’s largest gaming publisher, with investments in studios from Epic Games Inc. in the US to Supercell in Europe. The agency will take feedback on the proposed rules for a month, without saying when they take effect.

Bonus reddit gamer cope:

I can get behind prohibiting these sorts of mechanics. Don't think they really add anything of substance. Though I would prefer that companies and the industry self-regulate rather than having the government step in, but that's unlikely to happen.

Look at this idiot that believes in corporations regulating themselves. I bet he thinks children who believe in Santa (a very real phenomenon whom I once saw in a mall) are stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What you say about whales is true. It's possible that the law does not affect how Chinese publishers operate in the "free world" though. That would be very funny.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The regulations asked that game publishers operating abroad respect Chinese laws and culture and refrain from endangering national security, without elaborating.

Idk, sounds like they expect them to follow these laws globally.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yeah you are right. For some reason I interpreted that as a message for non-Chinese publishers for when they operate in China.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

It wouldn't make sense for them to "ask" foreign companies operating in China to "respect" Chinese laws and culture. The laws also apply to those entities

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah, I hadn't considered reading it that way. Yeah, I'm actually not sure.

I could see it going either way now that you mention it. Damaging national security could be harming China's global image with predatory products from China or it could be harming the financial and mental well-being of Chinese people with predatory products brought into China from other countries.

I guess we'll have to see, since China is an actual democracy we won't know what the law will look like when finalized until the public has a chance to comment.

Edit: actually after reading GaveUp's comment I'm back to my original comment, any company operating in China would obviously need to follow the law within China, this is almost certainly about ensuring that mihoyo doesn't scuff up China's image with their predatory gacha stuff.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Imagine gamers around the world using VPNs to connect to Genshin's Chinese servers because they don't have MTX anymore and were remade to make unlocking characters fun and interesting.