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China To Tighten Controls on Video Gaming Industry

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  It's a moral panic, like the communist party's Beatles or comic books or Elvis shaking his hips.

• • • Re: They seem to be doing it wrong

      No, they're still busy de-welding the doors of all of those people they caged in during zero-covid.

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        You'll notice they'll never reply to me because the Chinese censors won't allow it due to the words I used.

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    Well, that's because you actually don't know anything about China... only what you're fed by U.S. propaganda. This isn't a good guy/bad guy movie. It's a complex country solving complex problems with the means at their disposal. Agree/disagree, only time will tell the outcome.

    Well, that's because there's no other viewpoint. There's what's the US free press can tell us, and there's only what the Chinese government gets to tell us. All Chinese media is controlled by the state, which led to the shutdown and ar

• Have you played any games by such companies as Ubisoft or Electronic Arts? They are terrible about this sort of thing.

  In their minds, each game is a money-sucking empire. You buy the game, then you must pay again for cosmetic items, and pay again to unlock playable characters, and pay again to unlock special items, and play again to unlock special vehicles, and play again to unlock new areas, and pay again to get a PvP advantage, and pay again to skip some of the boring grindy parts of the game, and then two years later there is a new version of the game for which you must shell out another top-of-the-market price, to start the process over again.

  And on top of that, they throw this in your face while you are playing, constantly dangling these desirable items in front of you as if to taunt you for not having them. And just to add insult to injury, they also us the game to force you to look at ads for their other games.

  Personally, I hate this. I made the mistake of buying games from each of these companies once, and only once. But apparently there is a huge crowd of people who don't have the self-discipline to play games that treat them well, and they buy these games and just spend like mad.

  My primary reaction is "grow up!" People who fall for this are victims but also they are just being stupid, making terribly unwise decisions with their money, allowing themselves to get addicted, and just carrying on like that, when they should wise-up and goddamn stop. But, well, they won't. They just won't. The facts are in: people get addicted, overspend to their own detriment, and like it that way.

  So, what are we to do? In America the strategy is "a fool and his money are soon parted." Done. Let the companies victimize these people. If the fools refuse to exercise a modicum of self-discipline, then they deserve what they get. China's strategy seems to be "protect the weak from themselves." The motivation seems to be more about economic harm than about helping people in need, but even so, that's the angle they tend to take.

  I am not defending China, even on this decision. I am just saying I understand where they are coming from, without endorsing or approving of it. Video game addiction is real, it is economically harmful, and this is their approach. So, at a minimum, I get it.

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    Hmm. I get what you are saying. I must be buying different games though. Or maybe that's the key word, I BUY my games. Baldur's Gate 3 has nothing of that and it's an amazing game with plenty of replay value.

    I guess if you are playing "free" games, then what do you expect? They do micro-transactions.

    As you say, if people are stupid enough to put up with the micro-transaction form of gaming, they deserve what they get. I would be just fine with "Pay to win" being illegal. I just won't play those kinds of gam

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      Dude, 'free games'? Take a look at for example The Sims 4 and its roughly three gaziliion 'expansion packs'.

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      Baulder's Gate 3 was made by Larian. They don't pull crap like Ubisoft and EA. Consider games like Madden for example. You pay top of the market prices for that game, and then its "micro" transactions everywhere! I put "micro" in quotes because fifteen bucks is far too big to qualify.

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        Eventually they will.
        I think what happens is
        >small studio gets acquired by larger corp (probably due to the siren song of increased development budgets)
        >MBA cretins want to maximize their ROI, so they push MTX, day 1 DLC and other completely consumer unfriendly fuckery
        OR
        >AAA dev budgets balloon into the hundreds of millions of dollars
        >MBA cretins need to juice the quarterly numbers to justify the cost
        >Day 1 DLC,MTX and other fuckery.

        Gaming is getting objectively worse with the constant, CONST

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          You are complete fucking moron to think this is what is killing games.

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            alienating your core demographic is always a good business plan.

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              You are a fucking moron.
              That is good to know.
              
              I would explain why you are fucking retarded, but you wouldn't understand.
              
              So crawl back to your game console, load up GoW, and jerk off to the level 11 machismo and genocide.

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                Some great argumentation and reasoning my overly progressive friend. Happy Friday.
                Cheers.

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  Soon the CCP will be fielding their own video game. You spy on your family and friends and then report in the video game how often they diss Xi Jinping. The game gives you social credit for this. If you are able rat on 10 family/friends in a 2 week period, and get your CCP social credit up past 90, then you win a FREE copy of Mao's Stupid Little Red Book. Extra credit is given for fingering your parents.

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  I think they're doing it right. It's regulating something that every developer is compelled to do to stay competitive & increase revenues but is ultimately destructive & harmful to the customers.
  
  Like in the USA, some body building supplement manufacturers have been called out for secretly adding methamphetamenes to their products. They then claimed it was "contamination."
  
  Corporations that maximise profits by doing shitty things to their customers obviously need regulation.

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  Genshin Impact is a scam too?