China to bankroll domestic gaming industry.

[Strazos]

The games put out by government-sponsored studios may make EA look like creative geniuses.

[Pococurante]

This thread will eventually make its way to Politics... ;-)  "It's counter to our national security for China to buy EA!!"

[Triforcer]

Its part of a plot to turn the Internet into a Communist stronghold (well, even moreso)!  We'll live to see the day when ".com" is replaced by ".communist"...

[Yegolev]

[HaemishM]

The games put out by government-sponsored studios may make EA look like creative geniuses.

What's the over-under on the time it takes the next Tianemen Square protest to happen in an MMOG square instead of a real one?

[Merusk]

In a related story it's not illegal for minors in China to play games that involve killing other players.  "Effective immedately," August 3.  Good-bye PvP servers in WoW, or hello insane authentication scheme.  You decide!

It's brilliant. You fund the companies then kill their competition the span of a few days.  

In addition, Chinese authorities have also ordered online game operators to install timing mechanisms that would automatically log players off of online games once they had exceeded a set number of hours of continuous play. Chinese gamers on average spend 10.9 hours a week playing online games.

"A lot of operators are not willing to install these timing mechanisms," the senior company official said. "Some have already installed them, such as Shanda, but we are not going to install it. Even if it is compulsory, many companies will not install it because it is contrary to their interests."

Government-enforced Anti-catassing.  I wonder if Hillary's paying attention.

[Trippy]

In a related story it's not illegal for minors in China to play games that involve killing other players.  "Effective immedately," August 3.  Good-bye PvP servers in WoW, or hello insane authentication scheme.  You decide!

Your link above doesn't refer to what you quoted later on. Here's a link to the new laws regarding minors playing violent online games in China:

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/business/int/news/20050803p2g00m0bu032000c.html

For your first link, WoW is authorized in China so that's not a problem for them. As for the PvP stuff that affects all online games not just "foreign" ones so Legend of Mir is affected as well as the article above states as well as any other Shanda games that have PvP.
 

[ahoythematey]

Its part of a plot to turn the Internet into a Communist stronghold (well, even moreso)!  We'll live to see the day when ".com" is replaced by ".communist"...

That's why Linux has Redhat.

[Merusk]

In a related story it's not illegal for minors in China to play games that involve killing other players.  "Effective immedately," August 3.  Good-bye PvP servers in WoW, or hello insane authentication scheme.  You decide!

Your link above doesn't refer to what you quoted later on. Here's a link to the new laws regarding minors playing violent online games in China:

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/business/int/news/20050803p2g00m0bu032000c.html

For your first link, WoW is authorized in China so that's not a problem for them. As for the PvP stuff that affects all online games not just "foreign" ones so Legend of Mir is affected as well as the article above states as well as any other Shanda games that have PvP.
 

I stole the wrong link. Whoops.  This one is the story where I got the quote from.  I wasn't implying that it didn't affect the newly-bankrolled games, just that it's going to prove a problem for the exsisting ones.