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3clipse wrote:
This is insanity. Regulating the hours at which citizens can perform private activities is just sick. They're trying to fix problems that barely exist with completely arbitrary, ineffective and intrusive solutions. The fact that it only applies to underage gamers doesn't make it ok. Their parents should have the last word on their upbringing, not the state, and if they want to skip school because they stayed up all night playing Starcraft, let them. Theres always a demand for McDonalds employees.
But this is a government that officially endorsed the fan-death myth, so what can you expect?
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Isn't StarCraft rated E for Everyone?
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On April 13 2010 07:00 FoBuLouS wrote:
I have my doubts about this, how are they going to regulate the times of all their citizens and know their ages?
To play pretty much any game online in Korea you need to register on a site. When you register, you need to input your Korean identity card number. So they know pretty much everything about who's playing. I guess kids can use their parents' ID numbers but if they get rumbled they'd be in for a LOT of Korean parental beats.
Starcraft is an exception though. It's one of the very few games where you don't need to register.
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The Korea Herald article names mostly MMOs but I wonder if they'll widen their range and include Starcraft, a decision that could greatly threaten e-Sports. Why would it greatly threaten e-Sports?
Because you can't go on 6+ hour game binges?
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they(progamers) can play offline any way (dont they mostly play offline anyway? lol) so it wont really hurt esports that much. still really weird/lame though.
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On April 13 2010 07:11 L wrote:Show nested quote +The Korea Herald article names mostly MMOs but I wonder if they'll widen their range and include Starcraft, a decision that could greatly threaten e-Sports. Why would it greatly threaten e-Sports? Because you can't go on 6+ hour game binges?
I was thinking maybe it could affect the practice houses? Also, people who are aspiring to become progamers become severely limited in their practice time. 6 hours doesn't seem like enough practice time to become a progamer.
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I can't see this working but does this include weekends and is this a serious problem in Korea, gaming binges i mean.
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no its probably not going to affect starcraft at all they don't have your information on this game
you don't even need to install starcraft
and yeah, south korea has THE biggest gaming problem, atleast on the computer
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lol so retarded. sensationalist bullshit, creating invisible enemies etc etc.
same as fan death pretty much.
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Protip: Being passive-aggressive won't endear you to Mods.
Ontopic; Honestly it's not so bad if you can still lan. People who are aspiring progamers know other aspiring progamers so they should still be able to get practice in. It is a bit annoying I'm sure but when you want something badly enough to practice more than six hours a day you can find a way.
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on my opinion, if something like this stands in between nerds and their games, there are bound to be third party programs/tools/hacks to overcome this barrier.
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On April 13 2010 07:07 kOre wrote:
Isn't StarCraft rated E for Everyone?
Nope, it's T for Teen. Congrats on 1337 posts btw!
I'm sure people will play at home, then go to a PC bang, then go to a friend's house, then get neighbor's internet, then start over again.
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what god giveth, god taketh away
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parents should tell their kids to stop playing so much not the government
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This ban could make me glad. Progamers do not need to worry about the ban cause they have Lan and what not. If 6 fucking hours of playing 1 game a day, STRAIGHT, is not enough for a young kid, they need to be regulated. This should to apply to everyone.
I am on the fence about the curfew. What time is it? If it's like at 9 or some dumb shit like that, fuck it. If it's at 12 or any later, I can take it. It just ain't healthy for kids to be staying up past midnight to be playing games for recreation.
On April 13 2010 07:55 Entertaining wrote:
parents should tell their kids to stop playing so much not the government
Unfortunately some people have shit parents when it comes to setting boundaries and rules. And its to damn expensive and inefficient to make parents of all kids take mandatory parenting classes.
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THEY CAME FIRST for the MMORPGs,
and I didn't speak up because MMOs suck.
THEN THEY CAME for the FPSs,
and I didn't speak up because they were really violent.
THEN THEY CAME for the Fighting Games,
and I didn't speak up because I didn't play them.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
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On April 13 2010 07:57 Jyvblamo wrote:
THEY CAME FIRST for the MMORPGs,
and I didn't speak up because MMOs suck.
THEN THEY CAME for the FPSs,
and I didn't speak up because they were really violent.
THEN THEY CAME for the Fighting Games,
and I didn't speak up because I didn't play them.
THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
You are acting like they banned games. They did not. From what I understand, you cannot play a game for more than 6 hours straight. If you have got a problem with that time limit, especially if you are a young kid like what Korea is targeting, you need this.
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the government seem to doubt South Korean's self control of Starcraft.
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