China to ban online gaming, chatting with foreigners outside Great Firewall - Gamers Rise Up (against Chinese oppression)

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Say goodbye to your guildmates in China, as CCP extends its political censorship to online gaming world

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TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — After blocking a popular Nintendo game "Animal Crossing," the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is taking its political censorship to the extreme by disconnecting Chinese online gamers from their guildmates outside China.

On April 10, China banned the popular social simulation video game in which gamers can create a home and interact with cute animal villagers, owing to Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong (黃之鋒) revealing a customized scene in the game which reads "Free Hong Kong" and mocks Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Several other players were also found leveraging the game to vent their discontent with the CCP and making satirical content related to the CCP's failure to tackle the virus.
The communist regime is said to have noticed an authority vacuum in online multiplayer games, which enables people to freely socialize without monitoring. Local metropolises are scrambling to draft laws to expand the scope of online censorship in video games and even prohibit gamers from meeting and chatting with people on the other side of the Great Firewall, according to LTN, which cited news from a Chinese gaming forum.

One-player online games will also be subject to surveillance, as a new real-name mechanism is going to be implemented in China. Also, the new law will not allow for zombies and plagues, map editing, roleplaying, as well as organizing a union in games — regulations which are believed to be inspired by the sensitive content made by Joshua Wong.
As the CCP's audacious global propaganda campaign to silence critics abroad and to defend its infallibility fails to work out, the new law is expected to block Chinese people from learning how the world is reacting to Beijing's handling of the outbreak and subsequent cover-ups.

Other rules under the new law are less political. They include an online gaming curfew (10 p.m. to 8 a.m.) for gamers aged under 18 and a maximum amount of money they are allowed to spend on games to combat internet addiction.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Neoliberals who sold out Europe and the United States should be declared traitors for believing that they could change China.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

Maybe this will finally trigger gamers to rise up

 

[Fagnacious D]

One-player online games will also be subject to surveillance, as a new real-name mechanism is going to be implemented in China. Also, the new law will not allow for zombies and plagues, map editing, roleplaying, as well as organizing a union in games — regulations which are believed to be inspired by the sensitive content made by Joshua Wong.

Okay I have heard reasons for no zombies and can guess what the CCP would say about Plagues and maybe roleplaying (too much fantasy?) but, why map editing?
Also what do they mean by "union" like a guild or any other organization or something more specific?
It almost sounds like MMOs would need to have even more features removed - hmm

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

They used to have a requirement that multiplayer games had their own servers in China. They stopped requiring that a few years ago which caused most mainland china players to literally invade the tranquility sever in Eve.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

Okay I have heard reasons for no zombies and can guess what the CCP would say about Plagues and maybe roleplaying (too much fantasy?) but, why map editing?
Also what do they mean by "union" like a guild or any other organization or something more specific?
It almost sounds like MMOs would need to have even more features removed - hmm

People have been using it to spell out things, so you could edit a map to say "CHINA SUXS" with the walls or some such.

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

lmao China is big mad that they fucked up COVID and are trying desperately to hide it from their citizens


EDIT: I mean they're trying to hide everything else about how shit China is, too

 

[The Fool]

lmao China is big mad that they fucked up COVID and are trying desperately to hide it from their citizens


EDIT: I mean they're trying to hide everything else about how shit China is, too

China wanted to be the big bad bully of the world but they tripped over their own shoelace and then reverted to full-on North Korea mode where they turn their country into their own little communist safe space and if you say mean things about them then they'll block you.

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

I would have said "great, no more chinks in multiplayer games", but we all know they`re just gonna use VPNs and keep shitting things up for the rest of us

 

[MarineTrainedTard]

I would have said "great, no more chinks in multiplayer games", but we all know they`re just gonna use VPNs and keep shitting things up for the rest of us

Rang rang u go ok

 

[DrunkenDozing]

This is not suspicious in light of a pandemic cover up at all. Even basic info about how fucked or not Chinkland is, as in actual first hand accounts would be a nightmare for the propaganda machine.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Guess Path of Exile is getting the banhammer. Zombies, role playing, plagues, skellies, time travel. If this law effects the worldwide version, I'm switching to Grim Dawn and Torchlight entirely. Whining about looty clicky games aside, RIP what mod support was still in mainstream games.

I would have said "great, no more chinks in multiplayer games", but we all know they`re just gonna use VPNs and keep shitting things up for the rest of us

They were already using VPNs. It's quite common for gold sellers to use them.

 

[derpherp2]

That'll totally stop the chinese gamers, it's not like their great firewall about as effective as it's namesake.

Then again, government mandated esports players are gone, then.
Or was that another asian country?

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

lol Nu-Cultural Revolution when?

 

[mr.moon1488]

lol, I wish this would be what started a revolution in China. Nothing could make this timeline more interesting than a major global power getting shoahed because they denied their people video game rights.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Okay I have heard reasons for no zombies and can guess what the CCP would say about Plagues and maybe roleplaying (too much fantasy?) but, why map editing?
Also what do they mean by "union" like a guild or any other organization or something more specific?
It almost sounds like MMOs would need to have even more features removed - hmm

The amount of panicked neutering they're doing to games just to make sure people don't get funny ideas of anything whatsoever is absolutely pathetic, desperate and despicable. I really wish Corona would just work its way up the political chain and wipe out the CCP already.

 

[spiritofamermaid]

RIP gold farmers in WoW

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Other rules under the new law are less political. They include an online gaming curfew (10 p.m. to 8 a.m.) for gamers aged under 18 and a maximum amount of money they are allowed to spend on games to combat internet addiction.

Wow, they even have a fucking curfew for internet time. Nobody needs the government to dictate to people when and how long you can use the Xbox for. Imagine a cop swinging by your place to tell you to go to bed on a weekend because the government deems itself fit to parent you. Furthermore, it deems itself fit to parent your kids for you.

 

[uncleShitHeel]

So how long until the CCP implodes?

 

[Thiletonomics]

Wow, they even have a fucking curfew for internet time. Nobody needs the government to dictate to people when and how long you can use the Xbox for. Imagine a cop swinging by your place to tell you to go to bed on a weekend because the government deems itself fit to parent you. Furthermore, it deems itself fit to parent your kids for you.

South Korea also has a similar curfew for games, granted it's only for underaged people, I think. Granted, I'm not sure which of the two in China or South Korea has the bigger problem with gaming addiction.