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China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent. (gamerant.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by cyd to c/games

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These laws will ban rewards for spending money within a game for the first time, ban rewards for buying consecutive microtransactions, and ban rewards for daily log-ins.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

To add onto what the others have said, the CCP isn’t shy about enforcing restrictions on digital media domestically. For instance, TikTok in China (Douyin) is quite different from the international version with strictly-enforced time limits, content restrictions, etc.