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Gaming in China now reported to Government

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http://en.people.cn/n3/2018/1106/c90000-9515675.html

 

"Tencent Holdings, China’s largest gaming company issued an announcement on Monday, noting that a real name registration system, connected to China’s public security data base, will be applied to its new games to identify under-aged players and to help assist them better combat game addiction."

 

There are also other cities reporting the same thing, but all link back to this article.

 

What makes this interesting to me is that there is no announcement if this is in China only or will apply to any games outside of China.

 

They recently acquired a large stake in Blue hole, the creators of PUBG, which will be changed for the Chinese market.

 

While I don't agree with government overreaching; it's not my country. That said, it would be nice to have clarification if every time I log into PUBG, is China getting all my PII and gaming history.

 

*Sorry about the typos, I'm posting from my phone*

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Arent Tencent also the majority share holder of Riot Games ? 

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"helping combat Gaming addiction" my ass

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30 minutes ago, Mr.Dingle said:

Arent Tencent also the majority share holder of Riot Games ? 

For a few years now. I think they also have pubg corp and epic games under them too

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China is getting pretty bad recently. This is waaaaaay off topic but did anyone see that BBC report on China building internment camps and locking Muslims up?

 

I dread to think what's going on in the place unreported.

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23 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

China is getting pretty bad recently. This is waaaaaay off topic but did anyone see that BBC report on China building internment camps and locking Muslims up?

 

I dread to think what's going on in the place unreported.

This is hardly something new. China has been a totalitarian communist dictatorship since 1949. And it also wasn’t much better prior

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32 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

China is getting pretty bad recently. This is waaaaaay off topic but did anyone see that BBC report on China building internment camps and locking Muslims up?

 

I dread to think what's going on in the place unreported.

Nothing new there; gotta crush any and all potential dissidents (non-han minority groups typically get lumped into this category) before they evolve into something a little more nasty (aka rebellion/secession movement).

 

China is not as stable (nor powerful) as what they (and the western media peddling fear/panic) would like the public to think.

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All about dat social score

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I think its funny when stupid Westerners and the fake news media say "China's way is better".

 

Yep a brutal, murderous dictatorship where your organs will be harvested from your living body before you are discarded or imprisoned in concentration camps if youre muslim or suffer from wrongthink.

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Doesn't Tencent also own Grinding Gear Games? (Or w/e the Path of Exile dev studio is called)

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10 minutes ago, Amazonsucks said:

I think its funny when stupid Westerners and the fake news media say "China's way is better".

 

Yep a brutal, murderous dictatorship where your organs will be harvested from your living body before you are discarded or imprisoned in concentration camps if youre muslim or suffer from wrongthink.

"Civility" over Freedom of Expression works out great doesn't it?  cough Google cough...

 

 

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3 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

All about dat social score

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1 hour ago, Amazonsucks said:

I think its funny when stupid Westerners and the fake news media say "China's way is better".

 

Yep a brutal, murderous dictatorship where your organs will be harvested from your living body before you are discarded or imprisoned in concentration camps if youre muslim or suffer from wrongthink.

Who says that?

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If they are having people register to monitor game addiction why don't they do the same of gamblers, alcoholics or any other addition. Do they have a list for smokers? Didn't think so, I call BS.

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This isn't really news tbh. Tencent's stock price on HKEX has tanked a lot (like 25%+) in the past two months iirc because of this. Xi's regime had been slowly restricting along with a billion other things. Even things as small as train tickets and sim cards requires real name registration.

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7 hours ago, Evanair said:

 

This would've been my worst nightmare as a kid if I was still living there, 1-2 hours of game time is not enough. Then again, considering how hard some of the kids game over there, it's not that surprising.  

 

When someone dies from gaming then its definitely a serious problem, especially when China does officially recognize excessive gaming as a mental disorder.

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40 minutes ago, Muffin_man17 said:

If they are having people register to monitor game addiction why don't they do the same of gamblers, alcoholics or any other addition. Do they have a list for smokers? Didn't think so, I call BS.

Easier said than done, they used to but gave up after seeing how huge of a revenue casinos are after the first decade.

 

As for alcohol, they feed their 4 year olds beer to build up their tolerance so I don't think that needs elaborating. You don't drink apple juice in a business meeting, you drink whisky and other expensive stuff.

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1 hour ago, BananaInSandals said:

. Even things as small as train tickets and sim cards requires real name registration.

I don't mind what China does within it's borders, they are a sovereign country and not the one I live in.

However, I am concerned if companies owned by Chinese companies, such as this, will be required to enforce this outside their borders.  The article makes no mention of it, either as an oversight or an implication that every person logging in will be required to submit such information.  As much as it probably already is, I don't think having an entire database of non-Chinese national's personal information and bio-metric information stored on a PRC government server is a good idea.

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7 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

yup it is a China only policy

Good to know. If I missed it, i blame reading news on my phone.

 

Thank you. Still unnerving but glad it's not offshore.

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And so China slips further towards fascism.

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6 minutes ago, Evanair said:

Good to know. If I missed it, i blame reading news on my phone.

 

Thank you. Still unnerving but glad it's not offshore.

 

3 minutes ago, Nowak said:

And so China slips further towards fascism.

 

 

News Flash

 

Hey its China, whats new?

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