Well look at China back paddle again, where is that "evidence" some troll mentioned about and psychology class 101 blah blah. This is so predictable just like the western "think for the kids" policy changes without any long term thinking or any science backing that decision. (like some US states pushing for abstinent for sex ed instead of safe sex and then cost a lot more social or politically cause unwanted baby or black market abortion.)
For any one that tries to hail that and ban mtx, gacha, season pass, but do not put more energy on pushing legislation to ban lottery, casino, mall gacha eggs, trading cards, kinder eggs or McDonald kid's meal collectables, you are a hypocrite.
We need more education on math(probability and game theory), sales strategy and involved psychology tricks( FOMO, door in the face, etc), financial/budgeting literacy and planning like you teach how to eat healthy and exercise, as they affect your everyday life. We can push for things that collect data for strange spending behavior(enforced if they play those gacha/mtx/online casino) and catch vulnerable people that are prone to become gambling addicts and direct them to therapy and bar them from more spending if cross a threshold(say $500/month) defined by law or regulation to protect their finance(play.com in Canada has something similar if I remember). Well, until the psychologist and bank says okay as we can't stop retirees to burn their fun allowance for whatever they like, like we can't stop you from buying collector edition and then they sit somewhere collecting dust. Or, you know, go to arcade burn like 100 dollars and then your ticket only trades for toys you can buy at dollar store for maybe 10 bucks total. Some people burn that money for the experience knowing fully well they won't make a return, and are not addicts.
And for the trolls, I don't care about the up/down votes anywhere, feel free to waste your time do that.
I firmly think that the proposed regulation on games were a great idea. What they wanted to curb were patterns that are inherently toxic and that hits young people and kids disproportionately. Hell I'm not young and have more than enough money and education and still fall for those tactics from time to time. I don't necessarily blame anyone but myself for that but at the same time believe it is the governments purpose to set rules to protect its citizens from corporate interest. The repeal of the proposed regulation here only shows that money is more important to China than some people want to believe, in my opinion at least.
nah, I don't buy this. Maybe I am more cynical and critical but putting too much trust in government or good will of corporation is just asking for trouble. People are responsible for the government decision they elected, and guess who the reps think their "boss" are? There are plenty of sell out examples around the world where good intention legislation ended up just have a couple terms that really cushion up their corp buddies.
This might sound like a "universally" good propose, but does the "ban violence game" sound familiar? Does "yep, this life style does not sound healthy, just ban everything that's not healthy or not productive, like just make all the decision for me." actually better? Are we as society just lose the ability to tell your own children that "this is stupid, why would anyone wants to spend money on that other than consider it a donation to support the devs"?