"You have been playing for an hour, and have 2 hours of 'Healthy Game Time' remaining.
Depleting the time would render you unable to gain experience and other rewards in game.
To recover your status, you must stay offline for 5 hours."

Just rewording some of the translation to be more colloquial.

I'm curious though, is it just the message? Or is the experience/reward penalty also implemented globally?
Please update me after 3 hours!

Optimate

249 Posts

June 05 2021 02:06 GMT

#22

LOL it said "download failed" when I was trying to connect online.

Crimson)S(hadow

Philippines578 Posts

June 05 2021 02:07 GMT

#23

chat fucked up, chinese message blocking my damn screen, and my scmdraft2 won't open =/ fuck this patch

[UoN]Sentinel

United States11320 Posts

June 05 2021 02:35 GMT

#24

On June 05 2021 09:55 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:

Show nested quote +

By points you mean ladder score or win/loss?

The whole thing seems like something out of Black Mirror, wouldn't surprise me if they deduct points from your social credit score in China if you spend too long playing videogames.

One day you'll show up as a tourist to China to learn that Blizzard signed you up for the social credit system and then sent your score into the abyss through BW binges

MineraIs

United States846 Posts

June 05 2021 03:05 GMT

#25

On June 05 2021 11:07 Crimson)S(hadow wrote:
chat fucked up, chinese message blocking my damn screen, and my scmdraft2 won't open =/ fuck this patch

Blizzard patch shouldn't effect SCMDraft..?

TT1

Canada10010 Posts

June 05 2021 03:20 GMT

#26

posted by armada lmao

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Zergxhx

China159 Posts

June 05 2021 04:12 GMT

#27

Blizzard WTF

ArmadA[NaS]

United States347 Posts

June 05 2021 05:25 GMT

#28

Well after the latest update the above issue is fixed. Not sure if the chinese text is fixed as well.

bisufans~

9 Posts

June 05 2021 06:16 GMT

#29

Anti-addiction slogan from NetEase (who provides server for China mainland).
Reason for its appearing is unknown...

MineraIs

United States846 Posts

June 05 2021 07:57 GMT

#30

If this message happened in America, people would freak out!
A great example is the US government asking people to wear masks for a while and be cautious... people flipped out and tried to overthrow the government!

Xagec

Bulgaria15 Posts

June 05 2021 08:40 GMT

#31

I think that message is not directly aiming for SC, i guess they wanted to implement that in all of their games all over the Battle.net client and ofc they f**ked something up. SC is an older game differently coded than their newer games and ofc no one thought how what would reflect in game.

Akio

Finland1838 Posts

June 05 2021 09:31 GMT

#32

This is so funny, I wonder to what extent this exists in other popular games like LoL in China?

Highgamer

1412 Posts

June 05 2021 11:46 GMT

#33

I guess seeing siege tanks for too long could make people remember the Tian'anmen square massacre...

LG)Sabbath

Argentina3024 Posts

June 05 2021 13:21 GMT

#34

Honestly this is baffling from Blizzard, we actually paid for this game, twice

JieXian

Malaysia4677 Posts

June 05 2021 13:42 GMT

#35

On June 05 2021 05:08 Megaliskuu wrote:
I just got it and translated it with G translate. Maybe the latest update was supposed to just push this to china but got pushed to everyone instead?

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hahahahahha this is hilarious. The translation is correct btw

IvaNioX2

96 Posts

June 05 2021 13:46 GMT

#36

On June 05 2021 12:20 TT1 wrote:
posted by armada lmao

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HAHAHA

outscar

2832 Posts

June 05 2021 15:01 GMT

#37

What the actual fuck? I'm not surprised by Blizzzzzzzz...ard and Activi$ion fuck up but more about those restrictions, are we living in early 2000s where boomers thought that playing shooting/bloody games can make you do the same actions IRL?

Reminded me this chapter from BoxeR's bio, where he was invited to broadcasting station:

I received a call from a broadcasting station. When the public broadcasting station asks for me, I spring at the chance. To spread the word about the profession of a progamer, I think that talking even once for a public radio is more effective than going on a gaming cable broadcast. Professional baseball players or soccer players always let themselves be known to the national audience through sports news, and even though progamers are supported by e-sports, they are still at a distance from the public broadcasts. But this phone call was from the public radio morning talk program. What I heard from the writers in charge was that the topic was about game addiction, and they wished to discuss the ways of overcoming game addiction. I decided to go, as I felt it was a good opportunity to let others know about the job of a progamer, as well as expressing my views about game addiction.

Besides the fact that it was a morning talk program, the MC, the studio audience, and the listeners were elderly people of my parents’ generation. I anticipated that it would be a bit difficult, but the music artist Chae Rina that liked to play games was there as well, so it seemed that she would be on my side.

But when the broadcast began, the atmosphere turned strangely. Suddenly they started talking about cyber-money and asked me, “Is cyber-money worth around 100 million won,” “Are you not addicted to games,” “If one kills another player in a game, do you feel the urge to kill them in real life,” and I was so confounded that I could not speak properly. They had left out the most important discussion about how to solve the problem of game addiction, and continued to ask outrageous questions. I did not even have much time to speak. Rather than asking me questions, they spoke in a “how could you do this” kind of tone, in a reprimanding fashion. Chae Rina, who was there with me, also could say a word. Without being able to say a single thing that I had prepared, I had to come out of the station.

We're in 2021 FFS, let ppl do whatever they want and how long they want. How the fuck China can make top progamers by constantly reminding them to not play longer?

oxKnu

1187 Posts

June 05 2021 15:17 GMT

#38

There was a Chinese kid that died back in the day because he played WoW for 2 days straight with no breaks. It's possible that this kind of stuff is an overreaction to those type of incidents.

Obviously this stuff is far likelier to happen in totalitarian regimes or religion driven cultures and unfortunately it will happen for decades to come in some form or the other.

Magic Powers

Austria4296 Posts

June 05 2021 15:25 GMT

#39

I'm not a coder but this does indeed look like code originally intended for Chinese gamers "somehow" (?) ending up everywhere else, too. Most likely accidental, but other reasons can't be ruled out. The only region that I know that has game hours restricted like that is China.

outscar

2832 Posts

June 05 2021 15:59 GMT

#40

On June 06 2021 00:17 oxKnu wrote:
There was a Chinese kid that died back in the day because he played WoW for 2 days straight with no breaks. It's possible that this kind of stuff is an overreaction to those type of incidents.

Obviously this stuff is far likelier to happen in totalitarian regimes or religion driven cultures and unfortunately it will happen for decades to come in some form or the other.

2 days you say? I don't know others capabilities but just couple days ago I played straight WoW TBC to prepare for launch and ended up playing 26 hours or so although I cheated a bit by sleeping 2 hours. Think anyone who will try to play 2 days will just end up hitting their head to the desk.

In the end, there are jobs which require to be awake for 12 hours and many of them require you to be standing/walking all shift. China should take care about those things not about games. If I die from gaming I definitely can consider myself lucky cause I died as a happy nerd xD