China bugs online games

http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=4913

The new system, developed under the
guidance of the GAPP, stops individuals from playing online games for
more than three hours by cutting the abilities of game characters. The
new system cuts the ability level of a player's online game character
by half after he or she has played for more than three consecutive
hours. Once a player has played for more than five consecutive hours,
the system cuts the ability level of that player's character to the
lowest level allowed by the game.

The system also lowers the ability of
players to find treasures or prizes available in an online game after
they have played for more than three consecutive hours.

Furthermore, the system keeps track of
hours of play. Individuals who immediately log back onto a game after
three hours of consecutive play will continue to have the ability of
their game character lowered by the system. Players must be logged off
for a minimum of five hours before the system resets.

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This is ridiculous !

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

Hey Forceflow;

I'm relieved not to play any online games. (considered this, and some similar issues)

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Cheers to communism ! ! !

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What the Snarkpitters listen to!

And what's the sense of that GAPP thing?

I mean why not let people play their crap as long as they want to?

Because they keep dying after playing for 48 hours straight, or
forgetting they have kids/jobs/etc... I'm not saying the new system is
right, but asian countries (Korea in particular, though China seems to
be picking up too) do seem to have an increasing fanaticism
with MMO's, and they obviously felt something had to be done to keep it
under control. 3 hours is perhaps a bit stingy - 5 hours on for every 5
hours off might have been more reasonably - but its better than some
sort of outright ban.

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Yeah,but they have a population crisis over there, so I say let 'em play as much as they want :smile:

Because they keep dying after playing for 48 hours straight, or
forgetting they have kids/jobs/etc... I'm not saying the new system is
right, but asian countries (Korea in particular, though China seems to
be picking up too) do seem to have an increasing fanaticism
with MMO's, and they obviously felt something had to be done to keep it
under control. 3 hours is perhaps a bit stingy - 5 hours on for every 5
hours off might have been more reasonably - but its better than some
sort of outright ban.

I agree with this. Sure 3 hours might be harsh but theres a need for new habits. Eventually they might ease it off.

Cheers to communism ! ! !

Cheers to school studies for you.

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It'll never be popular, that's for sure.

Why would anyone want to play something that's so restrictive?
Someone will find a way to play the other "normal" unrestricted online
games so they don't have to deal with this crap.

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Cheers to communism ! ! !

Cheers to school studies for you.

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Why's that?

Must be amazing when you aren't allowed to decide for how long you want to play a computer game.

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ding said:
I mean why not let people play their crap as long as they want to?

Why not let HL2 owners play single-player without having to connect to steam?

ding said:
I mean why not let people play their crap as long as they want to?

Why not let HL2 owners play single-player without having to connect to steam?

That's totally different. The Steam connection is a defense against piracy ... This is protecting people ... from theirselves ?

And Blizzard can't do nothing about the Chinese government publishing
the patch. They need the authorization anyway to distribute WoW in
China.

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

I think Valve are a bunch of facist commie nazis... hate them with a vengeance.


Thats what I say to you Gabe "Dohnut" Newell!

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Oh cmon myrk...

...if you are gonna call him that, at least spell it one of the two correct ways (Doughnut/Donut) :razz:

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3 hours on 5 hours off? It's just one more piece of
software/hardware waiting to be cracked....you apply a 2kb patch, it
won't matter :wink:

Unlikely mate - MMO's require a user account that you login to, this
could easily be implemented through an entirely server side system,
that would make it near enough impossible to work around.

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it doesn't stop you from playing after 3 hours, it restricts abilities instead. stuff is harder to find, you fight like a noob etc. it's more of an attempt to make the game less attractive for extended play. 5 hours after logging off, the system resets and full play can resume. i make that 9 hours of possible 'full' play per day. i don't think it's such a terrible idea, tbh.

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Funniest thing I've ever seen crack wise was enabling HL2 online play on cracked HL2- funny as f**k! You have to unplug net cables certain seconds into updating and stuff, very amusing and very disturbing how someone found this out...

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

It's like one of those child safety modes you are able to enable in some games.

Please I want to see a game that has "Governmental Control" instead of "Parental Control" feature now!!!

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Cheers to communism ! ! !

Cheers to school studies for you.

Why's that?

Must be amazing when you aren't allowed to decide for how long you want to play a computer game.

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Must be amazing to actually know what communism is. OH WAIT!

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"Azelito, stop being a f**king bitch. All I see you do is complain and insult people in your recent posts. We don't care, go find a razor you emo pansy..." -Windows98

So why can't you just skip installing this GAPP thingy?!

HATE CHINA! DICTATORSHIP!

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God got tired waiting all sunday for the world to compile and finaly had it.
On the Eight day, god created func_details, and he saw that it was fast.

So why can't you just skip installing this GAPP thingy?!

Because it will be necessary to play on the WoW-servers, perhaps ?

Or maybe Blizzard has to - forced by the Chinese government - refuse
people with a Chinese connection ID that don't have the patch installed.

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer