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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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[–] TheBat 2 points 10 months ago

Probably because CCP wants other countries' citizens to be addicted to games but not their own.

How else would they have 9-9-6 model if Chinese youth started going down the path of Japanese hikikomoris?