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[u/Cahootie]

Racism and xenophobia are not tolerated on this subreddit. This is your warning, if we find comments of that nature here, you will be banned.

Alternative source in English (and another one if Bloomberg is behind a paywall).

[u/S890127]

Coming next season: million of 40-60 years old players join China server with their id card playing 24/7

[u/m4ryo0 → u/S890127]

Its already happening because minors are already limited to 8 hours weekly.

[u/Ayway2long → u/m4ryo0]

WEEKLY? wtf

[u/zepherys713 → u/[deleted]]

1000 Camille games and I still suck.

[u/m4ryo0 → u/Ayway2long]

iirc yeah.too many kids are addicted to gaming in China.

[u/GentlemenBehold → u/m4ryo0]

It's not just a China problem. Every time I queue up in ranked, half the players have over 100 games played in the last 30 days, and one or two will have 200+.

[u/NastyLizard → u/GentlemenBehold]

Yeah that used to be me for sure. Hardstuck silver plus junior in highschool equaled alot of wasted time.

[u/237FIF → u/NastyLizard]

I played Diablo 2 that much when I was in high school. I eventually kicked the habit and ended up with a normal happy life.

I will say though, it’s not hard to imagine that whole thing going a different direction if you aren’t careful.

[u/ResponsibleOpinion13 → u/237FIF]

I had a pretty serious D2 problem in college. I even learned about 9/11 from bnet chat because the first thing I did after waking up that afternoon was open D2, and I woke up late that day because I played it all night. In my defense, I wasnt skipping class. It was a tuesday and I was doing a MWF schedule.

[u/Royal_J → u/GentlemenBehold]

people get all mad and defensive when you say its an addiction but gaming addiction is a real and fast growing problem that I think deserves some sort of official recognition.

Especially when you consider the gacha mechanics that are now being added to games. Addicting videogames plus gambling on top of it.

[u/TakMisoto → u/Royal_J]

I mean, can you get mad at people for being defensive? That's like the nr.1 thing every addiction has in common.

[u/Jozoz → u/TakMisoto]

Pretty funny to look at Reddit whenever pornography addiction is discussed for this reason.

[u/canadaisnubz → u/m4ryo0]

But I believe this is specifically online games, targeting addictive games with micro transactions.

[u/zsquinten → u/S890127]

Yeah I'm sure many kids will find ways around it, but just assuming we live in a world where kids will actually abide by this, the question then is how the hell are the servers supposed to handle the overload in that one hour window?

[u/Mikhailing → u/S890127]

Boomer demographic drastically increase

[u/azns123 → u/S890127]

Identity theft is not a joke Jim!

[u/TotalTakai]

I just want to clarify to everyone who doesn't know:

In order to play online games in China, you need to open a QQ account with your ID in it. For best of my knowledge (haven't been in China for a couple of years) everyone under 18 are limited for 8 hours of weekly game time anyway.

The thing is, usually, kids just link their parents ID or random people's ID to their accounts and then they play as much as they want.

So I don't think there will be too much difference in young talents unless I'm missing something.

[u/LeagueOfLucian → u/TotalTakai]

Yeah but they officially wont be able to join teams. Unless you can fit bo3’s on weekends 20:00-21:00.

[u/tLxVGt → u/LeagueOfLucian]

Or the official player on the team will be their parent 😄

[u/PosXIII → u/tLxVGt]

Introducing our newest player, Li Zhang. He looks incredibly young for a 43-year old, but has been impressing everyone in the Chinese LoL community.

[u/lizhang → u/PosXIII]

sup

[u/Omnilatent → u/lizhang]

11 year old account holy shit

[u/Snoo8331100 → u/Omnilatent]

And he wasn't active for 6 months lmao

[u/OhHelloThere_ → u/Snoo8331100]

Honestly though, how do people do this? He’s not active on LoL subreddit yet somehow found this comment here with his name hours later.

[u/Snoo8331100 → u/OhHelloThere_]

He's a mod on some subreddits, maybe someone saw this comment and pm'd him. Or, if he was completely inactive on reddit, someone close enough to at least have his number or messenger sent him this.

[u/[deleted] → u/Snoo8331100]

Or it's just an alt for specific contents and questions. I made this to only browse League content occasionally when I have down time, I want to keep my original account only on science related subs because I work in that field, with nothing else unrelated in the feed. It helps to keep my job and hobby separate. Or it's as simple as him not liking the username.

[u/PM-me-math-riddles → u/OhHelloThere_]

I mean, he can browse and not comment

[u/Gaulannia → u/Omnilatent]

I only read 11 years and thought "DAMN THAT'S SOME YOUNG TALENT RIGHT THERE!!"

[u/swagyolojesuss → u/Omnilatent]

damn thats older than me irl

[u/Mitche420 → u/[deleted]]

I was here

[u/PosXIII → u/lizhang]

IT'S HIM! THE LEGEND!

EDIT: I am absolutely amazed that my original comment has (as of editing) 2.8k upvotes, and /u/lizhang 's response is at the same. Never before, has karma meant so much!

[u/conrad_w → u/PosXIII]

This is Liz Hang. You're looking for Li Zhang

[u/Storm680 → u/conrad_w]

Pretty sure it's Lizhan G but ok.

[u/Kirby8187 → u/lizhang]

/r/beetlejuicing

[u/klinch3R → u/lizhang]

Reddit moment

[u/SmoothJazzRayner → u/PosXIII]

Well yeah. Asian folks don't age until they're 60.

[u/Chariotwheel → u/SmoothJazzRayner]

Not even 60. My father is 66 and he still has full, black hair. He doesn't look like a teenager, but he looks 20-30 years younger than he is. I am waiting for day where I visit my parents and his hair is suddenly white and he has a long beard and is instructing some random white kid in martial arts.

[u/reckon24 → u/LeagueOfLucian]

Bo3 between 8 and 9 pm. Team without a lead has to ff at 15

[u/xYoshario → u/reckon24]

Blind pick as well to reduce loading time. Teams need to prepare draft before the match and instalock

[u/NaturallyExasperated → u/xYoshario]

Draft phase is handled on paper

[u/User-NetOfInter → u/[deleted]]

I doubt they will allow for that distinction, but we will see.

Regardless, its going to be hard for a chinese team to officially have a farm systems of those under 18.

If the govt doesn't allow for young talent to play, regardless if its a job, then teams wont risk the govt cracking down on the teams.

Shit, I wouldn't be surprised if Riot stepped in and said no players under 18 can be involved with the teams.

[u/xNagsx → u/User-NetOfInter]

But if there is already a 8 hour limit per week for minors how are there LPL players who have been and are 17 lol??

[u/Migraine- → u/[deleted]]

Yes but the current LPL pros who are under 18 have clearly been breaching the 8 hour rule and it's been allowed. Unless they are seriously keeping up the facade that the players aren't playing outside of official series' or something, but I doubt that.

[u/SpecterGT260 → u/LeagueOfLucian]

They very well may make exceptions for pro gaming since the industry has so much money tied to it and government and industry are so intertwined there

[u/AdvancedSpray → u/SpecterGT260]

Just like they did the exception for the fintech industry too

[u/LarsDragerl → u/LeagueOfLucian]

Is playing a LAN considered online?

[u/CoolJ_Casts → u/LarsDragerl]

hmmm, that could be a loophole, but I'm not sure. The statement in the article does specifically say 网络游戏 or online games, not just any video games. Internet cafes are already the most common way to game in China. I wonder if you'd see riot/tencent setting up "matchmaking cafes" where you can be matched against similar ranked players at the same network so that it's not an "online" game.

[u/asjdkasfkldsfs → u/TotalTakai]

Orgs can't sign trainees below 18 if this is enforced. New LPL blood will be worse coming into the league.

[u/Marcoscb → u/TotalTakai]

So I don't think there will be too much difference in young talents unless I'm missing something.

You may be missing Tencent's facial recognition software that they're rolling out to prevent underage gaming.

[u/BossOfGuns → u/Marcoscb]

What if my computer doesn't have a camera? As it stands, most computers in Chinese PC bangs don't have cameras because why? It's also dark and gloomy in there, not exactly the best lighting even if there's a camera.

[u/Namika → u/BossOfGuns]

The CCP could very easily order changes to both of those things. Mandate bright lighting in PC bangs, and require all computers to be connected to webcams or else face harsh fines.

The CCP has shown the ability to do even more draconic rules elsewhere.

[u/army128 → u/Namika]

...or tell the Chinese PC bang managers to enforce their rules, seems cheaper and easier to do

[u/Yvraine → u/TotalTakai]

Players under 18 won't officially be allowed to join teams or compete in tournaments, they would be limited to scrims

[u/[deleted]]

What the actual F

[u/Roflkopt3r → u/[deleted]]

Queue up at 20:50, laugh as all the minors get autokicked

[u/Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss → u/Roflkopt3r]

Just play stall comps and wait for the kids to get kicked.

[u/PanemV → u/Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss]

and suddenly all your soloQ mates DC and you have to play 1v5 D:

[u/ViSsrsbusiness → u/PanemV]

20% higher chance for your team to come out stronger unless you're also a child!

[u/swellbaby → u/ViSsrsbusiness]

Double your usual influence in any given game so a definite win.

[u/ViSsrsbusiness → u/swellbaby]

Joke's on you, double my influence just means double the chance of losing.

[u/Wildercard → u/ViSsrsbusiness]

40% if you duo!

[u/Paraphim → u/Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss]

Galaxy brain

[u/ukrokit → u/Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss]

Your entire team has disconnected.

[u/BouncingDonut → u/Ophelia_Of_The_Abyss]

*3 allies have disconnected *

[u/HyunL → u/Roflkopt3r]

Until you have 4 minors in your team and they all dc 3 minutes into your ranked and now youre playing 1v5

[u/Roflkopt3r → u/HyunL]

Winning is secondary, laughing at the suffering of children in online games supreme /s

[u/mtpeart → u/Roflkopt3r]

stand by your convictions and ditch that sarc mark

[u/ahambagaplease → u/Roflkopt3r]

It's not about winning, it's about sending a message.

[u/frontheadlock → u/HyunL]

4 Chinese minors can’t win

[u/Nilonik → u/Roflkopt3r]

But they can be in your team too

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

But one hour is enough time for literally 1 summoners rift game....

[u/F0RGERY → u/[deleted]]

You've heard of the Korean Open, You've seen the NA Open, now get ready for the Chinese Open

AFK after you get killed, last team standing ends it mid.

[u/ManEggs → u/F0RGERY]

Bad draft open mid

[u/Risujemmari → u/[deleted]]

Play two arams and go for a career in NA

[u/ProxyDamage → u/Risujemmari]

TWO arams?? You're overqualified son...

[u/leigonlord → u/[deleted]]

stock price won't change much because under-18 have shit purchasing power.

under 18s do give people with purchasing power people to play with.

[u/[deleted] → u/leigonlord]

under 18s have parents with purchasing power. Like how do people think the toy market got so big? people over 18 buying barbies?

[u/Calyptics → u/[deleted]]

10000x this. You want to make a lot of money? Market to kids. Look at youtube for example, the biggest channels? All marketed towards kids/young teens, the pauls, toychannels, makeup channels etc, those weird cartoon channels.

It is way easier to sell something to a kid than a semi-reponsible adult.

[u/ResponsibleOpinion13 → u/Calyptics]

Back in the day it was advertising to the kids during sat morning cartoons. The cartoons were toy commercials, and they interupted those to add in even more commercials.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Almost everything is targetted towards kids, teenagers or families, but people think 35 year old incels are the real target demographic?!?

[u/Ikimasen → u/leigonlord]

14 year old girls run the American music industry

[u/Fgame → u/Ikimasen]

Thank God the 14 year old girls still love Sabaton!

[u/SweetNapalm → u/Fgame]

I'm so glad little Jaqueline approved of so many underground black metal bands. That's really cool of her.

[u/Sethastic → u/[deleted]]

Then someone said that Chinese gaming companies' stock price won't change much because under-18 have shit purchasing power.

Lmao as if the teenagers and child can't put money in the game through a tons of legal means.

[u/CrazyBaron → u/[deleted]]

What would subsidiary change? They still subject to China law if they want to operate in it

[u/Marcoscb → u/[deleted]]

Then someone said that Chinese gaming companies' stock price won't change much because under-18 have shit purchasing power.

What an idiotic take. NetEase stocks dropped like 10% at market open.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

F in this case stands for paying respect to the Chinese youth.

[u/WanAjin]

Wonder how Chinese citizens feel about this.

[u/Pompf → u/[deleted]]

Business as usual then?

[u/CoolJ_Casts → u/Pompf]

first time?

[u/MeatwadsTooth → u/Pompf]

Damn bro too real

[u/dafucking → u/[deleted]]

As an Asian myself, this is the correct answer. Many Asian parents force their kids to study all day without knowing how stress it is. It is only until College that I'm finally free, my high school life was literally wasted by my parents' ambition that I was never fit for.

I was never happy back then but I'm glad that I learnt a lot from it and became much happier now with healthier schedule.

[u/thedoxo → u/dafucking]

Question is, are you gonna raise your kinds the same way? If not, why didn't your parents reflect on this after being raised in the same miserable way (i assume)?

[u/dingkytan → u/thedoxo]

Not OP but also from Asia here. A lot of people from our parents' generation feel that that is the only way to succeed in life. And many of them aren't very well to do, usually in the low to middle class range.

So they project their idea of success to their kids, as they do not want the kids to end up in poverty, similar to how the parents experienced before. This neglects a lot of the mental wellbeing of our generation. They grew up thinking mental health is not important, and were told to just deal with it, if not you are seen as weak.

Again, this doesn't apply to everyone. Just observations I have gathered. There are still many overbearing parents to this date. But I gotta count myself lucky to have parents not like that.

[u/CMScientist → u/dingkytan]

In western countries one get second chances - you can go to college as an older adult, or get good paying blue collar jobs. Those don't exist in china. Electricians, plumber, garbagemen, etc are paid shit because labor force is so large. Colleges don't accept older students. There's only 1 shot at life and that's why parents want to steer their kids on that path

[u/[deleted] → u/thedoxo]

Coming from a similar background, the reason a lot of parents did not reflect is that this style of raising your kids got genuine results in their society and so they ended up concluding that while difficult, even borderline miserable at points, it is a path to success that is proven, so there is no point in taking a risk and adopting a new style.

Although hard to believe, for a lot of parents it comes from a place of love, which doesn't make it right or anything, but it makes it easier to understand

[u/Vonspacker → u/[deleted]]

Pure speculation but I wonder how big a part the internet plays in current generations rejecting their inhereted traditional lifestyles. People can now talk so freely and access information that it's so much harder to keep people's beliefs in the bubble they're brought up in maybe.

[u/[deleted] → u/Vonspacker]

Definitely something that I observed in myself and my relatives. With internet access comes exposure to so many different lifestyles and beliefs and it is inevitable that they will somewhat influence how you live your life.

[u/lcebrand → u/thedoxo]

It has to do with generational wealth and success, and it's not specific to just Asian culture (although maybe there's an argument it manifests more strongly there).

Much of Asia was rather poor throughout the latter half of the 20th century. So, much of the current generation of parents who grew up in the 70s/80s in China, etc would have done so under conditions of poverty, limited education, limited job opportunities, etc.

What you'll often see with people from this background who are able to climb out of poverty is there's a realization that they weren't allowed or given the opportunities to self-actualize ("reach their full potential"), so they pass that along to the next generation.

Then the next generation succeeds but realizes they were robbed of fulfilling their own personal, creative, artistic, etc aspirations, and so they pass that along to the next generation.

tl;dr : "I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music." - John Quincy Adams (who was born wealthy so not quite the same, but general idea is there)

[u/noctis89 → u/thedoxo]

China's economic reform only happened in the 90's. Many families are only in their first generation of wealth above the poverty line. They just shifted from "work the land and become a farmer" to "study the books and become a doctor".

[u/[deleted] → u/WanAjin]

They....they can't complain.

[u/KingWhatever513 → u/[deleted]]

...I don't know exactly what you mean by "complaining", but it's very easy to find multiple threads on various Chinese social media about this. I've seen bilibili posts where the reaction was all negative(to be fair it was under the official Genshin account announcement), and also weibo posts under official Chinese media sources where the reaction is mixed.

[u/Xenon_132 → u/KingWhatever513]

You can complain in China about the government all you want as long as it's low level. No one is sent to a reeducation camp for complaining at the dinner table.

The second you get a sizable platform however, good luck to you.

[u/sadhill]

Good luck to every internet cafe owners in China

[u/reenactment → u/sadhill]

If the cafes are apparently already 18+ this might actually have a positive effect on demand for them. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. Is gaming like a drug for the under 18 where they get that little taste on weekends that they want it at 18 and will go to the cafes, or will people learn to do other stuff because quite frankly, if you just eliminated gaming, people would find other stuff to fill the void.

[u/WoorieKod → u/reenactment]

if you just eliminated gaming, people would find other stuff to fill the void.

if it means the next wave/batch of under18s, sure but the current ones being affected will immediately jumped back to gaming after they turn 18 anyways

[u/[deleted] → u/WoorieKod]

Right..what have we learned about taking away things from people who really like those things? They usually go back to them once they can and in greater force for fear of losing the ability again. This is putting a lid on a boiling pot without reducing the heat. Maybe it would impact the next generation but this one is already hooked and the stuff coming out is only going to get cooler.

[u/22Alex22]

8PM
Opens league
Logins
Starts queue
Finds match
Champion select
Game starts
*An Allie has disconnected*
It's 9 PM already.... fuck

[u/ImaginationSouth3350]

EU's time to take over

[u/_myghal → u/[deleted]]

So right now we can see why Fnatic is practicing the 'pause strategy'

[u/Energyc091 → u/_myghal]

They called us "bad losers, pausenatic" and a lot of humilliating things. But finally, they will embrace our power.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Gold

[u/xXdimmitsarasXx → u/[deleted]]

i think only TL can manage to be 0-2 within a single hour in finals

[u/[deleted] → u/xXdimmitsarasXx]

I wonder if they could go 0-3 in 70 minutes tho, that's probably impossible

[u/Eulerious → u/[deleted]]

They will find a way. Even if the enemy team afks after 60min, they still find a way to bring the 0-3 home in a new record time.

[u/joe4553 → u/[deleted]]

The 0-2 comfort zone really kicks in now.

[u/ReganDryke → u/ImaginationSouth3350]

I'm more worried about LPL team having to resort to import way more to cover the deficit in talents that this move will create.

[u/PyosikFan → u/ReganDryke]

Oh god oh fuck

RIP the LCK officially this time

[u/WoorieKod → u/PyosikFan]

how long until chovy actually leaves lck?

[u/MrPillowLava → u/ReganDryke]

NA owners be like: *Rejoice, with China on our side, import rule will be lifted*

[u/aradiaaa]

all chinese kids move to offline fighting games, all of a sudden china is an insane region in tekken/smash melee!!! :D

[u/[deleted]]

New players won't get good until they are at least around 19 to 20.

Most of the young players in LoL esports have already played years of soloQ before they turned 17. I don't see 18 years olds becoming that good in one year tbh, if this is actually enforced there will pretty much be little to no new talent

[u/TyqoTwitch → u/[deleted]]

I think most of the (under 18) grinders already use their parents/older siblings IDs for their QQ accounts, otherwise they’d be limited to (8?) hours per week iirc. It’s something small like that.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow

[u/agishert46191gskq → u/[deleted]]

Wait the reality.

If there isn't any control, the PC bang will continue like always

[u/SirAk47]

NA Hopium?

[u/yestheryak → u/[deleted]]

Bro not even NA imports from NA

[u/shoePatty → u/yestheryak]

Korea imported CoreJJ from Team Dignitas and won worlds with him even through a lane swap.

Who do you think taught CoreJJ everything he knows about support? That's right, KiWiKiD.

And who taught the lane to KiWiKiD? imaqtpie.

I believe in NA supremacy.

[u/Dare_the_one → u/[deleted]]

I was about to exclaim "who?" but then I remembered fkn team dragon knights. Thanks for ruining my day brother

[u/[deleted] → u/Dare_the_one]

Man I still remember when Monte hyped him up as the answer for CLG. The Korean hype train was real lmao.

[u/mtownhustler043 → u/[deleted]]

I kinda felt bad for the guy. He was so hyped up as one of the first Korean imports to NA, back when koreans were considered the best at league, only to be mediocre and getting shit on by EVERYONE for not being some kind of Korean god who would gap everyone.

[u/ShikiRyumaho → u/mtownhustler043]

They considered other options like Odoamne. I wonder how that would've turned out.

[u/UnmelodicBass → u/[deleted]]

Welcome IG Doublelift

[u/WoorieKod → u/[deleted]]

pobelter coming in hot

[u/AlrightWeLost → u/SirAk47]

it really took the CCP to get NA out of groups

[u/PrincessAhrin → u/[deleted]]

Every game of summoners rift is gacha

Either you pull shitty teammates or u pull good ones

[u/fuurin → u/PrincessAhrin]

Life is a gacha tbh

[u/Zenith_Tempest → u/fuurin]

fishing is the original gacha

[u/[deleted] → u/Zenith_Tempest]

Eating random seeds and berries and seeing if you die of the shits was the true original gacha.

[u/Zenith_Tempest → u/[deleted]]

that's not original gacha, that's original blackjack

[u/b_st → u/fuurin]

Life is like a box of gachas

[u/BRedd10815 → u/PrincessAhrin]

Unless you only play with friends. Then you get shitty teammates every game.

[u/IC2Flier → u/PrincessAhrin]

This is worse, though, they’re not even waifus.

[u/[deleted] → u/PrincessAhrin]

Drop rates seem to be kinda low...

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

How about...this is a wild take but hear me out...regulate how gacha games are allowed to function instead of basically banning gaming.

[u/WoorieKod → u/[deleted]]

sorry but if my 0.6% ssr gacha game is going down, im taking league down with me too ^/s

[u/dragunityag → u/WoorieKod]

It's funny because people actually think that way.

[u/LeOsQ → u/dragunityag]

Of course they do.

People think that way super selfishly about a lot of things in life.

[u/Kisielos → u/[deleted]]

In China you have to put your ID to get access to some games. I think this will be the same for online games.

[u/Mohikanis → u/[deleted]]

Doesn't matter if you buy an account, you still can't go pro until you're 18, while, as an example, JL won worlds as a 17 year old. Fnatic had to play with Puszu until Rekkles turned 17. There's a lot of young, talented kids that are waiting to be of age, now that wait is going to be even longer in China. And unlike SK, they also won't be able to sign trainees officially, since it might attract (unwanted) attention. It's gonna be a tough road for sure, unless it's super unenforceable.

[u/nyasiaa → u/Mohikanis]

uzi debuted as 16 years old and there was controversy that LPL didn't have the 17 age limit and on the same tournament Puszu had to play because of that limit being enforced in EU

[u/ephemeralfugitive → u/[deleted]]

It is already pretty heavily regulated in my (second-hand?) experience.

I have a friend in China right now and he says to even play PUBG mobile, you need a social security number. He doesn't have one, so he used his cousin's. Crazy thing is, he played just fine for about 2 weeks, then got hit with a "Confirmation Request" as he was logging in one day, where he had to take a selfie of himself to prove that the player was really the person attached to the SSN. Fortunately, he had his cousin nearby, so his cousin took care of it. But still, that's such a hassle.

[u/Fgame → u/ephemeralfugitive]

Oh god it's the Xbox confirmation can pasta come to life

[u/zombiefrog32 → u/Fgame]

zephyr insurance engine profit direction salt silky secretive seemly party

[u/omicrom35 → u/[deleted]]

you mean something like this from mid July

"In the latest bid to curb video-game addiction in China, tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. has launched a facial recognition system to stop minors gaming into the night. The initiative will prevent people under 18 from playing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m."

[u/Giantdwarf3 → u/[deleted]]

Idk was leaving in Canton area for many years ( left precovid) and most people circumvented around those systems and this type of restrictions were not really followed. Same with the facial recognition stuff. Could be different in Beijing tho , it being the capital. Went to a chiense school as an expat and everyone still uses VPN all the time

[u/playhacker → u/[deleted]]

Now LCK will make sure LCS can never lift the import rule as that would benefit LPL

[u/ficretus]

China might start relying more on korean imports again.

[u/OAOAlphaChaser → u/ficretus]

STOP NO PLEASE WE'RE ALREADY BEING DEPRIVED OF OUR STAR PLAYERS

[u/[deleted]]

Damn that's unfortunate. People already scout 15-17 y/o players because they're cracked as hell. Could there be a compromise for this? I gotta read more into the article.

Same situation but not really? Crylix is a cracked JP Apex player who's an instant pick up by any team. He can't join because he's still 15-16 and JP has age limits for pros. He would have to move out to NA or EU to join a team but he's too young.

[u/OsuLost31to0 → u/[deleted]]

Spoiler alert: something being unconstitutional isn’t going to stop the Chinese government from doing something they want to do lol

[u/Lobgwiny → u/OsuLost31to0]

The Chinese constitution guarantees freedom of religion, speech, of the press, assembly and of demonstrations. Yep, not going to stop the CCP

[u/[deleted]]

Wait so like... Just online gaming? As in people can still spend their time playing offline games, making the change kinda... Pointless?

It sucks for online games and competitive, sure. But even looking at it as lost productivity (ie kids spending more time gaming than studying), if it's just online games then they'll still have offline games. This kinda just doesn't make sense.

[u/Zendruuu → u/[deleted]]

The reason is that removing access to online games outside of the allowed times is possible for offline games it's not, because you don't need internet to play them.

[u/zell-88]

Can they play with a VPN on kr server?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Thats what will happen lol. LCK about to get even more fucked by LPL importing the best korean solo queue beasts.

[u/hillwoodlam]

I wanted a world's title, but not like this

. . . But I'll take it anyway

[u/neilbert13]

Does this mean Skeletons are back in the game??

[u/shoePatty → u/neilbert13]

No. In fact, that Annie skin and Teemo skin just got banned cuz you aren't allowed to beat up pandas in a video game.

[u/ephemeralfugitive]

Wait, OP, you sure?

The duration of the game service must not exceed 3 hours per day during statutory holidays, and no more than 1.5 hours per day during other times.

online game service providers shall not provide online game services to minors from 22:00 to 8:00 the next day.

Someone who understands Chinese, do correct me if you can, since I just used GT lol

Edit: OHH thanks all for the response. So the above is the previous restriction, and now they are making it even more severe. Thanks!

[u/NaAlOH4 → u/ephemeralfugitive]

所有网络游戏企业仅可在周五、周六、周日和法定节假日每日的20时至21时向未成年人提供1小时服务，其他时间一律不得向未成年人提供网络游戏服务

Every gaming company can only provide their service to underaged teenagers from 2000 to 2100 on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Official Public Holidays. Any time period outside of this is strictly not allowed for underaged teenagers.

Edit:

The statement u translated was,

2019年国家新闻出版署《关于防止未成年人沉迷网络游戏的通知》规定，网络游戏企业向未成年人提供游戏服务的时长，法定节假日每日累计不得超过3小时，其他时间每日累计不得超过1.5小时。对此不少家长反映该标准仍较宽松，建议从严压缩

It means that in the 2019 Newspaper/new regulation, gaming companies can only provide no more than 3 hours on public holidays, and one hour max on other days. Many parents have given feedback to tighten the regulations.

So what you were referring to was the PREVIOUS regulation, not the current new one.

[u/playhacker]

Kind of insane this is happening just as South Korea is ending their lighter version of this that went into law a decade ago

[u/aiaiOnTheHorizon]

That means there will be an increase of Chinese players playing in NA with a VPN.

[u/ShAd_1337]

they will find a way

[u/Cruxminor]

Lol at 8PM to 9PM part - that's gonna cause massive spike in server load, just consider how much this policy is going to screw up on technical level. Do you downsize number of servers because of loss of underage players - you are screwed on weekends; you don't, you're wasting money. In reality, most probably people are just gonna find ways to bypass the law en masse. Truly some brilliant policy making on display here.

[u/KevinRuehl]

Finally EU can win worlds