China's Online Game Restriction Rules Make Developers Miserable!

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GridGames.ID – Recently, the Chinese government has made restrictions on online games aimed at children and teenagers under 18 years old.

The rules regulate their online game play time, which is only allowed to play online games for a maximum of 3 hours in 1 week.

Not only that, children and teenagers are only allowed to play games every weekend, namely Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and national holidays.

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In addition, the regulation also prohibits them from playing at a predetermined time, which is from 20.00 to 21.00.

Meanwhile, the restrictions are said to have had an unfavorable impact on many parties.

One of those affected by the regulation is game developers from the Bamboo Curtain country.

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According to a recent report, many game developers have suffered losses due to the restrictions.

In fact, big game developers such as Tencent and NetEase are also affected by this rule.

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