“Online games will now be banned from giving players rewards if they log in every day, if they spend on the game for the first time or if they spend several times on the game consecutively. All are common incentive mechanisms in online games.”
“Online games will now be banned from giving players rewards if they log in every day, if they spend on the game for the first time or if they spend several times on the game consecutively. All are common incentive mechanisms in online games.”
Actually good regulations targeting the most manipulative of game designs.
You missed the bit that game companies have to have their servers physically located in China.
Hasn’t it been like that for decades now?
Which is probably the main reason why we’re never seeing those things outside of China since they usually get completely different gameversions
This does set a precedent though. Fingers crossed western countries see how this plays out and follow suit. Unfortunately the tanking of Tencent stocks might have the opposite effect, we’ll just have to wait and see.
Abso-fucking-lutely.
Absolutely mental that it takes a full-on authoritarian government directive to sort out wildly exploitative practices in video games