Tuesday 6 November 2018

Tencent to limit some mobile gamers to an hour of play time per day


Tencent is set to roll out sweeping changes to how it deals with younger gamers. According to The Wall Street Journal, Tencent will soon restrict online play time for youth in China, effectively limiting those children to under one hour of play time per day. First implemented in September, the verification scheme flagged gamers younger than 12 on a popular mobile game, “Honor of Kings.” The game had become so popular among China‘s youth, it led to many students skipping homework, or sometimes sleep, to play more often — Fortnite, anyone? Now, those same students will be limited to an…

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https://ift.tt/2JIalwY Bryan Clark November 05, 2018 at 09:00PM

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