2009 was the advent of mobile games. Look at what fraction of time is spent on mobile games. It absolutely dwarfs the console and PC market combined.
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Kids and Teens in China Banned From Playing Online Video Games for More Than 3 Hours Per Week
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Huh? Physical activity is ”not even close to the main reason”? It’s either No. 1 or No. 2. You get fat by eating too much or being too sedentary or a combination of the two.
Yes, so they get the real name verification and play time data that weren't there before. Actually would have to be more than just name.
Now, yes. But kids were spending huge amounts of time playing video games long before 2009.
Well, looks like kids got fat regardless throughout the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 2000s without much help from video games.
After reading a few comments, it seems that video gaming industry and video gaming market should be outlawed in China. Why reintroduce consoles? Why develop games? Why train game designers? Just ban all of them outright and those "graphics cards" would instead be distributed to countries that need them, or feed their new supercomputers.
They take the "ban" route cause it's a short route, not because it is the best one. Either way, wonder how this will pan out in the next stage. Can't wait to see the Chinese gaming market got slowly whittle down and eventually disappear as more restrictions on gaming is being introduced. Remember, they have a social credit system that will lower your score if you play "too many video games".
They take the "ban" route cause it's a short route, not because it is the best one. Either way, wonder how this will pan out in the next stage. Can't wait to see the Chinese gaming market got slowly whittle down and eventually disappear as more restrictions on gaming is being introduced. Remember, they have a social credit system that will lower your score if you play "too many video games".
Not really, look at the numbers. But also, having grown up during that exact time period, I can tell you that only total nerds spent all day playing video games back then, and nearly 0 girls. Nowadays it's not uncommon for all kids of both genders to play like 4 hours a day.
A lot of it is just that video games got better. Used to be too simple to replay a lot, too expensive to buy a lot, and not portable without big compromises.
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Again, nothing was banned.
By your logic, alcohol has been banned in the U.S. because it’s illegal to drive with a 0.05 BAC.
I‘ve seen the numbers, just like I’ve seen the numbers when it comes to youth participation in sports. Kids are far, far less active than they were 30 or 40 years ago.
Yes, and it increased most rapidly during a time when video games were too uncommon to blame.
I’m sorry but its not. Yes physical activity is important, but it does absolutely nothing with a poor diet. You seem to be stuck in a thought that making kids go out and play is going to fix childhood obesity. It won’t. I’m not going to go in circles with on this because what I’m stating are facts. What you are stating is an opinoin that if we took gaming away from kids that childhood obesity would be solved. You are allowed to your opinion but its not rooted in any fact. The leading causes of childhood obesity are genetics and poor diet. Physical activity is on the list but its further down the line and no gaming laws would do anything to prevent it from happening.
You can take an obese child and keep his diet the same and take away gaming and send him or her outside to play and nothing will happen. You take that same child and feed him a healthy diet and he will lose weight doing nothing more than his daily routine because his body will be contantly burning calories. He will eventually hit a plague where he will have to incorporate physical exercise to continue to lose weight, but nothing happens until the diet is in place. Sorry, all indisputable facts that are not remotely debatable.
You can respond againg with your opinion and I’ll just state now ahead of time that I disagree and encourage you to read up on childhood obesity facts.
What if banning was a democratic decision? Because it probably is in China, and there are votings in China, but only by committee and representatives. So, only the elites of the society can vote, but they represent the people. You can apply to join though if you are the top student in a university or industry.
You said physical activity is ”not even close to the main reason.” If diet is No. 1, could you list four or five other factors that would drop physical activity down to No. 5 or No. 6 or wherever you seem to believe it is?
Nope. Reread my comment. By my definition the government by default has a say in legality because a government is the only way legality can be decided. The comment was pointing out the fact that by preconditioning with “as long as it’s legal” you are already basing your actions on doing what’s not illegal, thus nullifying the “having zero say” aspect.
Real name verification in China involves binding your ID card number to the account in question I believe, making it the only account on the platform that you can have. Yes this would let them get more accurate data but it would also not really require back doors anymore to track playtime because each account is now clearly linked to a real person. Correct me if I’m missing something here.
As much as I disagree with what the CCP is doing….this and the CSAM stuff with Apple is kind of showing how badly devices are screwing up kids and how dangerous these glowing screens are to them.
Add to that devices being babysitters for lazy parents. Every responsible parent I know limits screen time for their kids making this China gaming ban pointless. Having grown up in the golden age of gaming (1990s) and being addicted to video games we were all yelled at and kicked out of the house by our parents to go play outside. Back then we weren’t a tap away from porn….or using IAP to drain moms bank account.
Double add to that the amount of teen suicide is through the roof in recent years due to social media. Guess you know you’re getting older when you fear for how f-— the future might be for kids. However this time it might actually be the case. The social fabrics of society have been heavily frayed , especially in the last couple years for many many reasons.
Add to that devices being babysitters for lazy parents. Every responsible parent I know limits screen time for their kids making this China gaming ban pointless. Having grown up in the golden age of gaming (1990s) and being addicted to video games we were all yelled at and kicked out of the house by our parents to go play outside. Back then we weren’t a tap away from porn….or using IAP to drain moms bank account.
Double add to that the amount of teen suicide is through the roof in recent years due to social media. Guess you know you’re getting older when you fear for how f-— the future might be for kids. However this time it might actually be the case. The social fabrics of society have been heavily frayed , especially in the last couple years for many many reasons.
I don’t disagree.
Europeans and even Americans living and working in Japan/China are generally pretty small. I don’t know if peer-pressure (and not being able to fit in cute outfits) plays a roll there. Everything is miniaturized and “cutefied“ in Japan. And there is no body acceptance woke messaging at all there.
They are also mandating facial recognition for restricting children’s ability to circumvent the system to play games unlimited.