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http://sc.gosugamers.net/forum.php?i=forum&visa=9&rubrik_id=118576&read=1
Obviously taken from gosugamers, might as well take the topic maker's quote:
"Shanghai. August 23. INTERFAX-CHINA - The Chinese Government unveiled a new system 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."
"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."
http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=4913
Props to Petar "RayOfLight" Jager and GGnet for topic. If this has been posted before, sorry, but it would be impossible to search this type of thing.
P.S. seems like fewer people will die from gaming for 40hours straight now. Wish this sort of stuff was introduced in Korea too, except for professional gamers.
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Thank God for democracy...
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Poor chinese gamers. Now they can only play 9 hours in any 24 hour period. Hmm that's not so bad is it?
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That has to blow for MMORPG, I mean completely cuts out the possiblity of any end game raid in WOW, and raids in most other games for that matter.
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no you wouldn't you lazybum 
edit: and start worshipping boxer more
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On August 26 2005 03:10 NotSorry wrote:
That has to blow for MMORPG, I mean completely cuts out the possiblity of any end game raid in WOW, and raids in most other games for that matter.
Yes. Especially MC takes over 5 hours ~_~;;
Though look on the bright side. They'd never have to suffer 5 hours of ultra boring in MC
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i never was in MC and probally will never be, but i saw that my guild is pretty long in MC so yes that would kinda suck
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3 hours of gaming is too much to me right now anyways so its okay
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ye, i used to play pretty much wow
but now i wanna quit it since it bores me and it was very time intesive
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i wonder how fast ppl will hack this..
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Man that is so bogus. :[ Mostly because it's the whole fucking country that goes through the governments internet "gateway" or whatever, and they control it all. It's sick;[
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Of course 3 hours is more than enough for many of us. The point is, you are not allowed to exceed 3 hours if you wanted to.
As someone already said, thx to democracy!
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What does this has to do with democracy? You people should stop using this lame issue to blame the country for christ sake.
I think it's a wise move on their part but probably very difficult to implemented it fully. The important part is they that showed initiatives, they CARE.
Most of you don't realise or don't want to admit how damaging games can be to your life. Sure, it is fun but really when it comes down games are just another trap corporations use to leech your time and money.
However, we as a society can't stop this new wave just like when we can't stop rock'n roll and skateboarding was back in the 80s.
So the question is? where is the balance?
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Agree. Communism isn´t to blame for China´s faults. Chinese people are to blame for China´s faults.
In this case, the government is stepping in to take care of a large problem caused by Chinese people: gaming addiction. Good luck.
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On August 26 2005 06:47 haduken wrote:
What does this has to do with democracy? You people should stop using this lame issue to blame the country for christ sake.
I think it's a wise move on their part but probably very difficult to implemented it fully. The important part is they that showed initiatives, they CARE.
Most of you don't realise or don't want to admit how damaging games can be to your life. Sure, it is fun but really when it comes down games are just another trap corporations use to leech your time and money.
However, we as a society can't stop this new wave just like when we can't stop rock'n roll and skateboarding was back in the 80s.
So the question is? where is the balance?
?? It has everything to do with democracy, you just don't get it because you never had the pleasure to enjoy it.
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EPT
