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China announces rules to reduce spending on video games (www.reuters.com)
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"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."

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[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

You missed the bit that game companies have to have their servers physically located in China.

[-] Exec@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago

Hasn't it been like that for decades now?

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