China bans minors from PKing
 

http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=4211

Considering the slope they're sliding down constantly, China is going to be very interesting in 20 years.

Re: China bans minors from PKing
 

"Citizen ID Card numbers"

- "hey dad, im doing this thing for school and i could need your ID number.."
- "for school?"
- "yeah its some crap about how numbers tells us how we are"
- "well sure you can have it"

Re: China bans minors from PKing
 

Bad dad.
Doesn't care. And he should know that school don't ask for kids to obtain info which can only be gotten with an ID. ANd dad gets to pay the fine/penalty

Re: China bans minors from PKing
 

Down the slope, up the GDP charts.

Re: China bans minors from PKing
 

There is a simple way around this. Disable player killing for minors. Of course, FPS games would be difficult; you would have to have players teleport or something.

I don't know if this is good for China. It drives game developers away.

Re: China bans minors from PKing
 

No, it is not good for China, nor any other nation. Its more pointless social meddling that China's government loves to do.

Online games are huge in south east asia, and this will seriously hurt their game developers.


Unfortunately all politicians of the world, not just China's, believe that ignorance is not a deterrent from lawmaking.

Re: China bans minors from PKing
 

thats what they get for being communist. atleast in a free country a adult can purchase a violent game for a minor.

Re: China bans minors from PKing
 

Heyyo,

Lol, well at least they're only targeting mmo's and not fps's n' such eh?.. so at least there's somewhat a positive for them. :p

But damn, yeah, when ya think of it.. ain't ERSB starting to act like commies? especially with GTASA? sheesh.

Re: China bans minors from PKing
 

That wasn't the ESRB's fault, again it was idiot politicians looking to score some quick political points by sensationalising something insignificant.

Re: China bans minors from PKing
 

Well maybee the age of 18 is a bit to high.
But i think its a good thing to prevent very young minors from see that stuff.
The kills you can make in some of the games are just to gross.
And it's very high detailed looking like humans. Not like the abstract violence in lets say tom and jerry.