Being A Chinese Elf In WoW Sucks : World of Warcraft General Discussions

From www.spong.com

You might not be aware of this, but the ever-autocratic Chinese government has had a system in place since last August preventing individuals from playing online games for more than three consecutive hours.

The system, by law, is installed in every online game in the country. It works by cutting the ability level of a player's online game character by half after he or she has played for more than three consecutive hours. After five consecutive hours of play, the system cuts the ability level of that player's character to the lowest level allowed by the game. Players have to log off for a minimum of five hours before the system resets.

Accoring to the latest iResearch 2005 China Online Game Research Report, over 90% of Chinese MMORPG'ers were aware of this ‘anti-obsession’ system, and nearly half of those polled support the seemingly rather stringent measures in place. However, there is still a small minority (around 14% of players) who have registered multiple accounts to get around the restrictions.

The Chinese government, not happy with destroying it’s citizen’s chances in World of Warcraft, is also planning a campaign over the upcoming summer to keep minors out of Internet cafes.

The Beijing Morning Post reports that Beijing Daxing District's Public Security Bureau has appointed 107 security guards to work in 71 Internet cafes recently, while the Beijing Yanqing Culture Commission has been training Internet cafe staff.

XinhuaNet also reports that the Hefei Department of Education and Hefei Ministry of Culture have begun hiring middle school teachers to serve as Internet cafe supervisors.

i loled at that. damn they are controlling the people so much and people say that our govt is bad xD

Yeah I really feel bad for countries whose governments control their lives that much.

USA! This kind of crap makes me more proud of our country

maybe it was better for me to live in China.........

china is a pretty bad place to live and they have done some really terrible stuff, but I can name so many different things that make the US look much worse than china.

Sorta sounds like some countries REALLLLlLLLY need to migrate to the USA!!!

Well sure it does! The only races who fits chinese farmers are gnomes, dwarfs 'n taurens [/quote]

Yeah, I bet it is really smelly down there, but i do enjoy chinese food