https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-issues-draft-rules-online-game-management-2023-12-22
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All of that sounds really reasonable.
Mobile games and online games are a plague which only children and subnormals can catch, however, so I don't really know or care.
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It'd be better if governments imposed quotas on social media usage. The whole world needs to be restricted to 30 minutes a day.
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Imo, time you spend on social media should be directly proportional to your income. If you're a NEET, frick off. 30 minutes for you. If you're a bored wagecuck like me who gets paid to shuffle around PPTs, you should be allowed to doomscroll 8 hours a day
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its honestly difficult to think of anything more economically wasteful than video game microtransactions. convincing players to spend both inordinate amounts of their time and money on some gay looking shit in a game is the greatest scam that has ever come about, and its disgustingly popular for some reason. and of course microtransactions like these disproportionately affect younger people, who are already disproportionately poorly affected by economic circumstances - the economically worst off demographic of people are the most likely to be victimized by predatory microtransactions.
not a big fan of china or the chinese or really anything in that corner of the globe but im less a fan of greedy companies that provide negative societal value stealing from neurodivergents and shut-ins.
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Taxes on homeless projects. Taxes spent on anything other than policing and road repair. That waste is about 40% of the economy and is in your face everyday, but you couldn't see it because gaming microtransactions are a dire threat to overall well-being. You might just be the biggest r-slur of rdrama.
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This is exaxtly why I don't have a 401K. Why should my money go to some future version of myself when I can spend it on cars and guns now?
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We could save so much money just by simply shooting the homeless. Or simply just beating them to death so you can save a dollar on the bullet.
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Just don't be an r-slur?
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Send me 1000 DC.
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you and i might not be r-slurs who buy this shit, but some third guy _is_ an r-slur and buys all of it, meaning that its commercially successful and then gets pushed on to us, too. clearly the only solution is to find the r-slurs who buy microtransactions and beat them with pipes.
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And that'll fund the game and the company who will crank out more shit that g*mers want. You're definitely r-slurred.
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any game company that relies on microtransactions as a revenue stream has evolved past needing money to fund development and hosting and instead is looking to pay shareholders. if the gambling machine is what makes money, why the frick would the developers waste money on content that doesnt contribute to that revenue stream?
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I'm not reading all that because you're r-slurred.
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How do you think they fund Continuous updates?
They don't work for free.
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The trick is they dont make sequels and barely make updates.
With the exception of maybe TF2 (and even that's been a zombie game coasting on microtransactions for years now) more reliance on microtransactions = less updates than when battle passes and sequels were a thing. For a recent example compare Battlefield V to Battlefield 1.
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No, not really. Aside from day 1 patches it was fricking very common for games to go un-updated, if you actually bother to think. A fricking game like CoD4 received only 7 patches for it's life cycle. It's certainly not comparable to how games updates are fricking today, with massive influxes of maps, characters and weapons spanning many years. Just look at the fricking current big Ubisoft games, like Siege and For Honor. Even the fricking Asian markets that used to make you buy an entirely new version of the fricking game when they made a fricking new version have started just doing free updates. The fricking shift towards the fricking more update, less expansion centric focus was fricking 2015-2016 so Battlefield 1 isn't exactly the fricking best example if you ask me.
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They released tons of new content for CoD4, it's called every CoD game since then. There's more Call of Duty content than R6 content, because CoD isn't reliant on (but still has) micro transactions.
Rainbow 6 Siege has 24 maps total. That's less than in Battlefield 1 alone, and over almost an entire decade.
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If games don't pay shareholders why should anyone provide capital for you're next game, gaymer?
palestinian lives matter not
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Just sounds like seeing those items makes you jealous.
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I don't care about microtransactions at all as long as they are cosmetic only. I single player games they are even less of a problem since I always pirate them.
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There is nothing more important than separating r-slurs from their money. Imagine they were able to pool their resources and elect a Twitch streamer as governor.
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it's entirely digital as well. You're spending money on something that can be instantly generated. It's not creating any value.
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is it though
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Dunno how this will work tbh, it's just a proposal.
"The tweet is a bit misleading. It's not a law yet. The guideline is in the process of public consultation.
The guideline does intend to limit excessive spending in online games. It plans to prohibit daily login bonus, top-up reset, and consecutive top-ups. It also plans to demand online games set player spending limits and discourage players from unreasonable spendings through in-game pop ups.
Edit: another important point, the guideline intends to demand online games who utilise "pulling system" to set reasonable rates that do not induce excessive spending. Also these online games need to create virtual currencies that can be used to obtain virtual items of same utilities and other value-added services."
https://old.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/18o6e6r/chinas_press_and_publications_will_ban_online/kefbv0t?context=8
Knowing China, it's probably some politician getting bored and throwing dart at shit to ban again.
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Ironically tencent is the only one to take a hit for this. Western companies are kind already compliant.
But azn game companies holy shit. The BS that goes on on there lol. Pay2win and gambling galore.
I hate this pizzashill award holy shit I hate
@pizzashill. I will have my turtles.
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Hearing how online game works in PRC is really like taking crazy pills. We thought we had it bad, but there are potentials to get a lot worse.
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step on turtles and squish them
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If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Bardfinn, my janny, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Janny Lane with all the other mentally ill people, and I want him brought right here! With a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, peepeeless, hopeless, heartless, fat-butt, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?
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Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist
longest streak broken in the last 7 days was sACAclaus which was 0 days 15 hours 35 minutes and 29 seconds
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This is why China
won't grow long term. They just won't admit that there 
is no such thing as spending all your money 
on only "useful" things.
The market
grows to accommodate the amount of money 
flowing through it and you don't get to strongarm it forever 
into only growing in very specific shapes.
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Oh look a government that works in the interest and wellbeing of it's people. Dramatards wouldn't know anything
about that
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The standard of living
in China 
has only gone up. Seethe 
more westoid !commies
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He says, as a westoid himself.
You will never be chinese, you will never be born and native to true communist nation, actual chinamen look at you and are even more disgusted by your lack of nationalism than they would be by actual patriotic westerners. No matter how hard you try to impress the soulless bugmen, they will NEVER see you as an equal, they will always see you as lower than a dirty BIPOC. One day, hopefully you will realize this and hang yourself, crying all the way once you came to the realization that youre no better than a smelly BIPOC to the chinamen you spend so much time simping for online. You will realize that no matter how many hours you spend shillign for Xi's meme country, he would be disgusted if he ever came in contact with you. And your parents (if you havent cut them off your life yet) will be relived, if a bit sad, that their chicom neet son has ceased his eternal r-sluration for once
This is your destiny, chink shill.
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Just two more weeks before the west collapses, any second now.
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Ukraine: LOST
Israel: PARIAH
EU: CUCKED
CHINA: ASCENDANT
TAIWAN: NOT A COUNTRY
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China... BAD!
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Nope. Not true.
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It's true, my dad works at China
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That's not true either. Your father is a male prostitute in Laos.
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Laos is proper Chinese clay
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found the incel
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The desire to stop micro transactions is admirable but I doubt this will have any impact worldwide.
They'll just change their practices in China to the disadvantage of Chinese players and then the Chinese players will riot and the law will get rolled back. If the company is big enough, it's probably already moved out of China for its own good. Hoyoverse, the creators of Genshin are managed by a shell company based in Singapore to get around any of the more ridiculous CCP demands.
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Total Chink Spyware Death
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