China To Crack Down On "Undesirable" Games 73
The Chinese government is getting ready to launch a new round of content restrictions for online games. Kou Xiaowei, a senior official with the General Administration of Press and Publication, said, "Although China's online gaming industry had been hot in recent years, online games are regarded by many as a sort of spiritual opium and the whole industry is marginalized by mainstream society." The article points out that China has already "banned children from Internet cafes and last year ordered their owners to enforce time restrictions after several cases involving obsessive players dying of fatigue after marathon game sessions." We've also seen Chinese restrictions on player-versus-player content for kids, as well as required content modifications such as removing skeletons in order for games to be sold there.
Re:When in China... (Score:5, Funny)
However, if they ban Half Life, it's war.
Quite the opposite. They won't be able to connect to your server.
Re:What's with the skeleton hate? (Score:2, Funny)
Probably because banning violence (in germany and australia), and banning everything that could even remotely remind someone that we are a species that wants to reproduce (in the US) were already taken, and they certainly can't go around not banning anything.
Re:What's with the skeleton hate? (Score:2, Funny)
Consider out "Night of the Living Dead" movie mythology, if you see a zombie you just whack it with a shovel, they are only dangerous if you get mobbed. On the other hand imagine a "zombie" who was the full mental-and-spiritual embodiment of King Arthur, you are NOT going to win in combat against him, and if you oppose him you're pretty much automatically "the bad guy".
This is not the case, however, if a cricket bat is used...