China limits under 18s to 3 hours of gaming per week(theguardian.com) |
China limits under 18s to 3 hours of gaming per week(theguardian.com) |
Quite sure I learnt a lot from Civilization's tech tree @ 10 years old.
An offline game though of course.
*this may not be a valid assumption
- It includes mobile game
- It's actually enforced or just a guideline for parents
- What's the end goal here?
1.5 hours daily sounds very reasonable to me, but 3 hours weekly is so little it doesn't really strike me as reasonable. Although to be clear the state telling it's citizen how much video game time they get sounds very distopian to me.
It will try to be enforced, through their social id (everybody in China has one, and it's already used for payments, and logins). There will be workarounds, at least for some platforms.
For instance nobody can stop you playing old games, games you bought on gog etc.
But I do expect bigger publishers like Xbox, PS, Steam, Epic to support this if they want to remain in China market.
I think 1.5 hr a day is a bit much. My kid gets 5hr a week of online games max, as long he has done his chores, but no more than 2hr in any single day.
On occasion we play some games (like Civilization or Xcom, or some old adventures) together and that doesn't count towards limit.
And I agree that it sounds distopian, but I wish western countries would recommend (recommend and not force being the operative word, and make sure all platforms have options to set this up), limiting online everything to children.
Does anyone know how well the previous limit was enforced/how easy it was to evade?