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Hi,
just found a news in German media and immediatly searched for another source in English.
It looks like being a young gamer in South Korea is getting tougher and tougher. Last year the country put into effect a "Cinderella Law" that prohibited online gamers 18 and younger from logging in to popular games between the hours of midnight and 6:00 a.m.. Now the government is taking a close look at an additional law limiting the amount of time played each day for minors.
The proposed policy comes from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) and would yank account privileges for minors if they played either more than two hours in a row or more than three hours daily. The MEST is concerned about game addiction in minors, citing that it may come from the duration of play sessions.
The game industry is concerned about possible over-regulation by the government spurred by theories on addiction that haven't been proven. Some are calling for earlier shutdown policies to be overturned if this one is implemented.
Source: http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/27/three-hours-and-out-south-korea-considers-additional-gaming-ban/
Apparently Korea is creating another gaming law which forbids teenagers under 18 (19 korean age) to play more than 3 hours a day, aswell as not being able to play more than 2 consecutive hours.
What do you think will happen if the big companys like Blizzard especially enforce this law due to Korean gov.? Will future players in SC1 and SC2 be even able to emerge with something like this?
Sincerely Zumm
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Wow thats crazy, would this affect underage progamers too? If it does then i dont know how they could continue to be progamers...
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Doesn't Kespa have any lobbying power? If Korea wants the world to see their culture through Starcraft, this needs to not happen.
I can't believe they are imposing such restrictions in an otherwise liberal democracy. In the West, enforcing this is called "parenting" and if you do a bad job it is your fault not the government's.
You can't really tell from the article how close a "proposed" policy is to actually being law.
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I can't really find more than that, maybe someone who speaks Korean could watch up if there is something on the net concerning that.
But as it looks it would affect underage progamers too, it's law after all.
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I agree, this is really the job of the parents not the government.
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Don't think Korea will be so dominant in the future if this law passes.
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there wont be an esports scene in korea if this passes, or at least this generation will be the last of esports.
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Well this sucks but I understand why they do it and it might not be completely wrong...
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I understand the will too, but 3 hours is kind of hard. People who are addicted to playing video games are playing the whole day. It's not just 4 or 5 hours. So they could simple raise the amount of time :-/
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On January 28 2012 23:15 aTnClouD wrote:
Well this sucks but I understand why they do it and it might not be completely wrong...
It's like burning a litter of kittens because one of them pooped on the floor :C
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Why is the government trying to play parents? It's up to every mother and father to decide these kind of things.
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What's with the high amount of absolutely ridiculous laws around at the moment?
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Lol, shouldn't there be more important things the Government should do than play the roles of every child's parents?
This is just silly.
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That's not how I wanted the west to be the best at SC.
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2 things though. A minor could just use the account of someone of age, or they could play somewhere other than Korean servers, where they couldn't be regulated like that.
Both seem like pretty simple and obvious solutions if this law were to be made a reality.
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Progamers still need 6hours sleep + it will just regulate good sleep hours for the gamers
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On January 28 2012 23:24 Hall0wed wrote:
2 things though. A minor could just use the account of someone of age, or they could play somewhere other than Korean servers, where they couldn't be regulated like that.
Both seem like pretty simple and obvious solutions if this law were to be made a reality.
I was thinking the same. Even if they purchased Taiwanese account... would half the proleague houses lose a lot of their full-time team?
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On January 28 2012 23:26 Near1985 wrote:
Progamers still need 6hours sleep + it will just regulate good sleep hours for the gamers
Not when you can play just 3 hours a day...
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