South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths 148
eldavojohn writes "GamePolitics reports that South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has announced two new policies that will force underage gamers to pick a six-hour block of time (midnight-6 AM,1-7 AM, or 2-8 AM) where they will not be able to play 19 online role-playing games. While it targets most popular MMORPGs, some popular games like Lineage were left off the list."
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Re:Government bailout (Score:1, Funny)
Lineage 2 is critical to national security, you wouldn't understand.
Re:Government bailout (Score:5, Funny)
Oh thank God (Score:5, Funny)
Now the rest of us can compete in PvP!!!
Re:Freedom? (Score:1, Funny)
Like drinking and prostitutes? Texas street anyone?
Re:Freedom? (Score:2, Funny)
ah yes, all those kids playing mmorpgs instead of screwing the hot cheerleaders. haven't we all been there?
Re:Make it universal (Score:3, Funny)
I know, it'll be great. Let's go and ban all the other undesirable elements of society while we're at it, and productivity will shoot through the roof! I say start with alcohol.
As opposed to... (Score:2, Funny)
As opposed to North Korea, where you can spend as much time on MMOs as you'd like. Except the only MMO is standing guard at the DMZ, awaiting an attack by the South Koreans or the Americans. And it's not a game.
Just moved to Seoul (Score:1, Funny)
Just moved into Seoul about two weeks ago. There are internet cafe's that advertise MMO's *everywhere*. I think within a mile radius of where I'm staying, I've seen at least 7 or 8, and quite possibly more than that. I don't get the appeal of these things...I tried WoW once, and it just seemed like a drawn out walking simulator to me!