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Paine · Sep 03, 2005, 07:15 AM // 07:15

Hi!
Children in China can't play more than 3 hours in a row due to a new law!

Read more under. Lucky for some it doesn't affect Guild Wars yet.

The Chinese Government unveiled a new system last Tuesday to prevent individuals from playing online games for more than three consecutive hours, which must be installed for every online game in the country. "This timing mechanism can prevent young people from becoming addicted to online games," Kou Xiaowei, Deputy Director of the Audiovisual and Internet Publication Department of the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), said during a press conference.

The new system, developed under the guidance of the GAPP, stops individuals from playing online games for more than three hours by cutting the abilities of game characters. The new system cuts the ability level of a player's online game character by half after he or she has played for more than three consecutive hours. Once a player has played for more than five consecutive hours, the system cuts the ability level of that player's character to the lowest level allowed by the game.

The system also lowers the ability of players to find treasures or prizes available in an online game after they have played for more than three consecutive hours.

Furthermore, the system keeps track of hours of play. Individuals who immediately log back onto a game after three hours of consecutive play will continue to have the ability of their game character lowered by the system. Players must be logged off for a minimum of five hours before the system resets.

The GAPP has defined the playing of online games for less than three consecutive hours as "healthy," playing three to five consecutive hours as "tiring," and playing for more than five consecutive hours as "unhealthy."

In addition, seven of China's largest online gaming firms pledged Tuesday to "sacrifice short-term revenues" to create a "healthy" environment for young internet users. Companies signing onto the "Beijing Accord" were Shanda, NetEase, The9, Optisp, Kingsoft, SINA, and Sohu. These seven companies also pledged to deploy the system when development is completed.

Development of the system is scheduled for completion at the end of September 2005. Internal testing is scheduled to begin in October of 2005. After internal testing, trial operations of the system will be held using the games "The Legend of Mir II" and "The World of Legend" operated by Shanda, "Westward Journey Online" and "Fantasy Westward Journey Online" operated by NetEase, "World of Warcraft" and "MU" operated by The9, "JX Online" and "First Myth Online" operated by Kingsoft, "The Legend of Mir 3G" operated by Optisp, "Lineage II" operated by SINA, and "Blade Online" operated by Sohu.

Compulsory deployment of the new system is expected to begin for all massive multiplayer online role-playing games and casual games in China in late 2005 or early 2006

Ultimate_Gaara · Sep 03, 2005, 07:28 AM // 07:28

Simple solution, play 2 hours 59 minutes, take 5 minute snack and bathroom break, start from square one

Seriously i don't see why they have to butt in on peoples hobbies... since when can people tell you what to do in your own house?

Kamatsu · Sep 03, 2005, 08:29 AM // 08:29

Ultimate_Gaara - How about you read the articule posted before commenting? You'd look a lot less stupid...

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Originally Posted by Paine

Individuals who immediately log back onto a game after three hours of consecutive play will continue to have the ability of their game character lowered by the system. Players must be logged off for a minimum of five hours before the system resets.

Quoted & Bolded for illustration.

BTW you might want to realize that China opperates under a different legeslature (sp?), govermental and "consitiutional" system than America, the UK, etc and basically they can do exactly that because it's in their rules, consitution, society, etc. I'd suggest you take some time to do some research about the Chinese, their governmental system, rules, laws, etc before making stupid ignorant comments about them.

Moltov joss · Sep 03, 2005, 08:40 AM // 08:40

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Originally Posted by Ultimate_Gaara

Simple solution, play 2 hours 59 minutes, take 5 minute snack and bathroom break, start from square one

Seriously i don't see why they have to butt in on peoples hobbies... since when can people tell you what to do in your own house?

AHEM.....Its *****CHINA******* not USA.

Pr1nc355SaRa · Sep 03, 2005, 09:02 AM // 09:02

how can people get so addicted to games that these sorts of laws need to be inplemented??? i read that somewhere in Korea (i think) that a couple left their baby at home while they went to an internet cafe to play Diablo and the poor baby died of neglect!!!

remember there *is* a world outside of the game...

Rieselle · Sep 03, 2005, 09:50 AM // 09:50

China is cool. Nothing like a totalitarian government to try all sorts of wierdass social engineering experiments. I'm just glad I dont live there. But they're cool :P

If only they aren't trying to suck up to the rest of the world right now... it could be a bastion of anti-copyright, genetic engineering, cloning, all the other stuff that democratic/Christian nations won't touch :P

FatherNurgle · Sep 03, 2005, 10:05 AM // 10:05

Ok, addiction is a problem, but do they allow smoking and drinking? It is not the role of any govenment to dictate consumption. Nice place to visit, but a shitty place to live. That is why chinese women come here and go to school and marry so they will not have to go back.

Games are not the problem. It is just that they need to get too involved. next they will be telling them how often they can masturbate.

Hash Mama · Sep 03, 2005, 11:29 AM // 11:29

Games are not the problem. It is just that they need to get too involved. next they will be telling them how often they can masturbate.[/QUOTE]

I dont think that thay can masturbate.And yes totalitars is crap believe me i do leave in Poland same crap, same shit...

Toad Healer · Sep 03, 2005, 12:47 PM // 12:47

people with just have more that 1 game. thay will have like 3 and play one for 3 hours and go to the next one 3 more hours then next one then thay can stil play all day.

Paine · Sep 03, 2005, 03:26 PM // 15:26

Let's say you're chinese and you're in Hall of Heroes. 2 seconds before you win and then it shuts down. LMAO !

Mercury Angel · Sep 03, 2005, 04:10 PM // 16:10

3 topics on this now. Coincidence? Nah, conspiracy.

http://guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51623
http://guildwarsguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53884

Inacurate · Sep 03, 2005, 04:43 PM // 16:43

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Originally Posted by Toad Healer

people with just have more that 1 game. thay will have like 3 and play one for 3 hours and go to the next one 3 more hours then next one then thay can stil play all day.

Damn, that is what I was going to say exactly.

Unless this programming is like, tied into some central server somewhere and it tracks ALL their game time for ALL games, but then that would require people signing up for it, or someway for the system to track them on an individual level, which no one would sign up for on their own.

Another thing is....someone will hack this system and bypass it within a week for sure.

Inac

Sagius Truthbarron · Sep 03, 2005, 05:24 PM // 17:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paine

Let's say you're chinese and you're in Hall of Heroes. 2 seconds before you win and then it shuts down. LMAO !

Or better yet, your monk drops to level 10

SOT · Sep 03, 2005, 06:48 PM // 18:48

This is a clone thread. Someone strangle it.

Ultimate_Gaara · Sep 03, 2005, 08:23 PM // 20:23

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Originally Posted by kamatsu

Ultimate_Gaara - How about you read the articule posted before commenting? You'd look a lot less stupid...

We need 20CC of sence of humor stat!

err correction, i believe its a clone of a clone...

deadline · Sep 03, 2005, 08:27 PM // 20:27

LoL ... they afraid from what has happend in Korea...
Someone died after 50 hours of playing... from a Heart Attack...
so i think its the Reason that the Favor was in America all this time ! LOL

Divinitys Creature · Sep 03, 2005, 10:46 PM // 22:46

This thread is such a dupe