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China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent. (gamerant.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] CosmicCleric 3 points 1 year ago

World of Warcraft set up all these euphemistic workarounds to circumvent the law while realistically changing as little as possible, basically defeating the purpose of it.

The only one I'm aware of is China's cultural distaste for showing bones, so Blizzard had to hide the skeletal structure in the Undead player class. In other words, it wasn't about the undead, it was only about showing bones.

What else did they do?