China’s Online Gaming Ban Impacts South Korean Video Game Makers
China has tightened regulations on kids who play online video games:
![A man plays an online game at a computer shop in Beijing on August 31, 2021, a day after China announced a drastic cut to children's online gaming time to just three hours a week in the latest move in a broad crackdown on tech giants. [AFP/YONHAP]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2021/09/18/d1cbc643-1b50-4281-9f8d-e37b0f966a4d.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
Korean game companies face a major hurdle as China, the world’s biggest game market, has recently released tougher measures for juvenile online gaming.
Joong Ang Ilbo
The Chinese government announced on Aug. 30 that minors under the age of 18 will only be allowed to play online games on Fridays, weekends and holidays, from 8 to 9 p.m. each day. This limit is a tightening of the existing 90-minute per day regulation that had been in place since October 2019 and is aimed at curbing juvenile game addiction.
While not taking direct aim at the Korean market, the regulations have had a ripple effect as seen in the fall of stock prices of game companies in recent weeks.
You can read more at the link, but there is another option called parenting where parents tell their kids to go to bed and take the gaming devices from them if they don’t.
Anyone who complains about America’s “nanny state” needs to read this carefully. Regulating nationwide when under 18 can play games…if it hurts the ROK gaming companies it doesn’t really have an affect on me, not in the ROK stock market and not a gamer in general.
Maybe the lesson here is to not count on customers in totalitarian countries that steal and resell intellectual property?
LOL, no this won’t have any negative effect on South Korean game companies. Consider these facts:
1) China already banned South Korean online games in China, since the THAAD blowup in 2017. So Korean gaming companies have not operated in China for several years.
2) Chinese game companies on the other hand, have a free movement in South Korea to sell their services to South Korean consumers. And this has created an unfair competitive advantage for the Chinese companies.
3) China banning online games for their youth, will mean far less number of Chinese online gamers causing havoc for gamers from other countries who have for years, complained about the bad manners and bad practices by Chinese online communities.
4) China banning online games for under 18 will also mean less competitiveness for Chinese companies as their revenue gets cut.
South Koreans welcome China’s banning of their gaming communities.
Hah! The government in China may have restricted online gaming; however, it’s pathetically easy to circumvent the ban. All one needs is a VPN and an account on a service outside of mainland China.
Johnhenry knows all the tricks for gaming…
…and his game is child p0rn.
Truth is completely foreign to you, isn’t it, CH?
C’mon now JH, We’re all waygooks here…
https://www.facebook.com/ABC7/videos/rodney-king-can-we-all-get-along/10154461278947452/
Speaking of China’s economic issues:
https://mishtalk.com/economics/huge-credit-stress-starting-in-china-may-easily-rock-the-whole-world
I get along with plenty of people, setnaffa. What I do not do is get along with people who falsely accuse me of being a pedophile.
If you feel my accusations are false, all you have to do is clearly state “I am not a pedophile and I fully condemn adults who touch children inappropriately.”
Then answer a few follow-up questions to make sure you are not just a lying pedophile and it all ends.
How easy is that?
In my entire life experience, the only people I have ever seen who are resistant to condemning pedophilia are pedophiles.
And they know they cannot hold an actual discussion on the topic without fully revealing themselves.
Quite the dilemma, isn’t it, pedophile.