China Limits Online Game Play
Posted on October 25, 2005
China has imposed new restrictions on online video game play in the country. According to a news story on Xinhua, the Chinese government will run net-wide software that causes players that spend more than three hours gaming in a row to suffer damage to their characters.
Players that spend more than three hours online at a time will lose experience points and weapons in the cyber world.Currently the system is running for games like The Legend of Mir II, Westward Journey and World of Warcraft (WOW). It sounds alomst like AOL's old timer kill but on a larger scale. A WOW gamer interviewed in the Xinhua story said: "I am sure cheating programs that can make the system think we have logged off will soon be formed." That sounds very likely.Once a player has played for more than five consecutive hours, the system cuts the ability level of that player's character to the lowest level allowed by the game, often zero.
Players must take a two hour break before logging into the game again to avoid being penalized.
The new system will soon be adopted in all Chinese online games.
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