China is genociding the gamers - eviltoast
  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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    11 months ago

    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.

    As a person who is very prone to game addiction, to the point where I refuse to play online games, this is a very welcome change. Hope the pressure impacts companies abroad.

    • ShiningWing@lemmygrad.ml
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      11 months ago

      Nice, I’ve had to quit multiple games because of that, Pokémon Go being the main one I used to play often that I quit a few years ago because of the daily streaks fucking with my brain

      Animal Crossing New Horizons was another one where that was a big contributing factor to me quitting, but there’s also plenty of other things that were shit about that game lol