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Those female families need to get off there high horses >.>
If this doesn't affect iccup, does it even matter?
Blows for d2 fans I guess. And it blows that psychotic mothers can hold that much political sway. Does it surprise anyone else that Flash can make what he makes playing bw and there's still enough political power in the hands of people who hate video games to pass laws like that?
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On October 24 2011 14:31 Wolf wrote: I've known this for a while. Only affects old Blizzard games, it seems. Funny thing is-- Koreans can just log into non-Asia gateways as far as I know to continue play. Or just play LAN at a PC 방.
I was really worried it was going to affect StarCraft II but with the SSN being attached to the account it seems it won't. Except for really young progamers, I suppose. I think it would have been great if it affected SC2. Maybe then Blizzard would start considering LAN. At this rate were never going to see it in SC2.
As for BW, I dont see that it really matters more than gives parents an extra argument to make their children stop playing BW through the night. Most people dont use battlenet anyway.
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this seems to be a kind of censorship! You are disallowing consumption of type of media while allowing other types of media. It's unfair against computer games in comparison to TV and it's censorship in full action. There are those who work from 3:00 to 15:00 why should they be punished for not being able to play on battle.net when there day/night cycle is skewed towards there working schedule. I'm afraid to say this but Korea might be a conservative society.
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On October 25 2011 17:36 archonOOid wrote: this seems to be a kind of censorship! You are disallowing consumption of type of media while allowing other types of media. It's unfair against computer games in comparison to TV and it's censorship in full action. There are those who work from 3:00 to 15:00 why should they be punished for not being able to play on battle.net when there day/night cycle is skewed towards there working schedule. I'm afraid to say this but Korea might be a conservative society.
Did You fell from a tree? Still most of Asian cultures are underdeveloped. Whether it is Japan or India. (Misogyny, Xenophobia etc...)
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This is a very very sad and stupid law at the same time. Sucks to be under 16 in Korea now, I guess... REALLY bad for young sc2 pros... AND really bad for BW because of PC bangs usually not allowing to install programs (such as launchers / reg file for fish)
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Parents that cant control their kids Strikes Back: Electric Boogaloo I would LOVE to see the Korean youth to rebel. Very unlikely though.
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LOL
Where are the parents? Man, if I were a parent, I would definitely not let my child have access to a computer when they should be sleeping. They might just turn into me! *cringe*
So basically, what this says, is that parents have lost the privilege to decide when their child can perform recreational activiites? Interesting. This is just like saying "children are not allowed to watch tv after midnight," and then disabling all TVs in the country that children might possibly have access to.
Oh, Female Families, you silly goose!
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This shouldn't affect BW at all actually; who plays on Bnet these days...?
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This is like them banning cocaine but everyone has already moved onto heroin (iccup and bnet 2).
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This is such a ridiculous law, I know you can just go on fish/brain/iccup or whatever but the principle of the thing is just awful IMO.
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On October 25 2011 11:01 ArvickHero wrote:Show nested quote +On October 25 2011 10:53 Remaker12 wrote: Holy shit I feel really bad for the PC 방s. Considering students get out very late due to after school academy/or just plain studying, they have an even smaller window for peak hours of business.
A better solution would be to not allow the ages of <16 into PC 방s and give parents the responsibility of taking care of their kids at home. I thought that minors already weren't allowed in PC bangs after 10-12 lol I remember a cop asking me for ID last time I was at a PC Bang in Korea at nighttime (spoke english and the cop just went away LOL)
Hmmm... last time I went was last July and I wasn't carded. Maybe the place I went to didn't care. There were no cops around either.
**Checked. You're right. Minors are not allowed after 10 PM.**
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On October 25 2011 18:38 iNfeRnaL wrote: This is a very very sad and stupid law at the same time. Sucks to be under 16 in Korea now, I guess... REALLY bad for young sc2 pros... AND really bad for BW because of PC bangs usually not allowing to install programs (such as launchers / reg file for fish)
Really? I installed installers/launchers all the time on PC Bang computers haha...
Anyways Korea strikes again with their parental control... only time will tell before they start hacking down on SC2.
PS: I didn't know minors weren't allowed past 10 PM... guess it's because I'm 24 and not Asian so they don't bother me.
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I think this is also a strategy move from them so that people play on battle 2.0 -> starcraft 2 / WoW
Since they want Korea to play more of those games to make more profit. BW is not profiting them
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And here I was told the world would be a better place with women in charge. -_-
(j/k)
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On October 25 2011 17:53 villageidiot wrote:Show nested quote +On October 25 2011 17:36 archonOOid wrote: this seems to be a kind of censorship! You are disallowing consumption of type of media while allowing other types of media. It's unfair against computer games in comparison to TV and it's censorship in full action. There are those who work from 3:00 to 15:00 why should they be punished for not being able to play on battle.net when there day/night cycle is skewed towards there working schedule. I'm afraid to say this but Korea might be a conservative society. Did You fell from a tree? Still most of Asian cultures are underdeveloped. Whether it is Japan or India. (Misogyny, Xenophobia etc...) Not underdeveloped, but... different from the Western society.
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First China and now Korea, what an utter joke. Lets make laws that perform the responsibly of any decent parent. Oh wait they're probably still out working and drinking with colleagues past midnight, especially the dads. If the parents actually bother spending any sort of quality time with their kids they wouldn't be playing games past midnight during the weekdays.
This is potentially bad for progamers of course, but at least BW still has LAN functionality ironically compared to SC2.
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I think this is actually scary that the Korean People allowed this to happen. People need to be responsible for their own actions so if they want to stay up and play all night and then fail a test or class so be it.
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This is pretty harsh but will it increase the popularity of sc2 in korea as this law wont effect it.
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On October 25 2011 21:00 GhostOwl wrote: I think this is also a strategy move from them so that people play on battle 2.0 -> starcraft 2 / WoW
Since they want Korea to play more of those games to make more profit. BW is not profiting them
The "Shutdown Regulation" is a new regulation that was proposed by the Family Women's Council
Care to elaborate how the Family Women's Council will profit from battle net 2.0?
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So I guess Korea is strictly against the idea that it's the job of parents to tell their children to go to bed at a reasonable hour?
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