{"id":451,"date":"2005-08-27T20:57:42","date_gmt":"2005-08-28T00:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=451"},"modified":"2005-09-01T10:33:12","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T14:33:12","slug":"china-penalizes-obsessive-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"China penalizes obsessive gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently seeking to stem the possibilities of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=440\">death by gaming<\/a>,  the Chinese government is mandating that hard time limits be imposed on online <abbr title=\"Role Playing RPG\"<\/abbr> activity, setting a firm restriction of three to five hours of consecutive play, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4183340.stm\">required reak period of at least 5 hours before the gamer can resume<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new system will impose penalties on players who spend more than three hours playing a game by reducing the abilities of their characters.<\/p>\n<p>Gamers who spend more than five hours will have the abilities of their in-game character severely limited. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Depending on how you look at it, this kind of regulation makes sense.  Of course in most western countries, ruining one&#8217;s life through obsessive game play is recognized as a person&#8217;s God-given right, so we probably won&#8217;t see something like this ever in the &#8216;States.<\/p>\n<p> <\/abbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China institutes a 5-hour hard limit on online RPGs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}