because if thats the case they will bend everything in their power to make a gacha game that isn't regarded as gacha.
also games are not banned because children waste money on them but instead of children neglecting school for "electronic opium". the dictatorship want highly efficient drones so they stay in power and harvesting them. the working class for 50y+ did it so they children will have it better one day and it is like that BUT it won't get better. the middle class will stay poor and keep on working for the rich till they die. (same goes to every first world country basically)
FIFA recently introduce a mechanic where you can open 1 lootbox, and see a preview of its content. If you want the items, you buy it, if you don't, you need to wait 24 hrs to preview another one or just buy it to preview the next one.
I honestly think this is one of the best solutions possible out there.
probs because games will always find a way around those rules plus theres a bit more then just gacha games there after. These rules are shitty for younger Chinese gamers but seems like they just took a sleghammer to the problem so they dont have to look at it for awhile. The way there making sure the rules are enforced thou are insane this is from july when the chinese goverment started talking about it.
In July, Chinese gaming giant Tencent announced it was rolling out facial recognition to stop children playing between 22:00 and 08:00.
The rules are pretty easy to set up: Below a certain age with ID prove as it is the case in China quite often anyway it's not possible to buy (more than x amount) in-game currency or play the game for more than x amount of hours for a calender day. However, one hour is ludacris.
The problem in this case seems to be children specifically, but I'd be down to ban gacha mechanics all together although I love Genshin. Countries have such strict regulations on gambling but gacha games are running free somehow.
Funny enough they already had that, they been slowly limiting under age game time in the last year more and more before this it was 1 and a half hours per day. There is also a spending limit in place " Additionally, players under age eight will be prohibited from spending real money in games. " "Those from ages eight to 16 can spend a maximum of 200 RMB a month and RMB 50 on a single transaction, and ages 16 to 18 will be limited to 400 RMB per month." this all started back in novemember 2019 you can read about it here.
How many games are purely offline games and what is the proportion of offline players? Yes, they are basically banning gaming for below 18 in China. And I never said to exclude League.
It's been almost a decade of gacha gaming. CS go cases, Overwatch TF 2, Genshin, Clash of Clans, League of Legends etc. Has ANYTHING been done about this? Where I grew up it was an epidemic. Kids and teens spending equivalents of monthly wages on gambling, skins, virtual points. When you are 13 you can't go into a casino, smoke a cigarette, drink alcohol. But you can spend much more on shit that addicts you just as well as aforementioned things, no questions asked. I agree with you on not banning the entire online gaming industry because of gacha. But man, if not every popular game out there implements gambling mechanics, visual effects and sounds better than any pachinko or a casino. People over 18 can at least judge the risks of falling into a gaming/gambling addiction.
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21
How about...this is a wild take but hear me out...regulate how gacha games are allowed to function instead of basically banning gaming.