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Tencent value slides $15bn in video game backlash
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Omega Kirby
Member
Well it's a crappy rip off league of legends which is also owned by tencent.
Biggest game in the world.
kiunchbb
www.dictionary.com
First thing I thought off...
Compsiox
Banned
It's quite literally a reskinned League of Legends. The company owns the studio behind league of legends.
What's the point of it then?
Causing severe addiction is the kind of "good" you shouldn't aim for.
Lets say you are 18, so you grew up on PS360Wii and DSPSP. Those plattforms lacked always online money sinks.
What
The point is making 876 million dollars within one quarter
Mobile
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
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When you star ripping off your own games to make even more money
mobile I think.
As mentioned in the article, it's on mobile, has 50 million daily users in China and made almost $1 billion in revenue in one quarter.
I followed the news about this recently and it is basically a symptom of Chinese govt exerting even more control on gaming and culture. Trust me you dont want this. This is after all a country where games like Horizon Zero Dawn is still in censor limbo after a few months.
batman2million
Member
This. It's always the companies fault, never the consumers.
nephilimdj
Member
Shares a down for tencent
shares are up for those army camps for troubled kids
shares are up for those army camps for troubled kids
These camps use ex-gay electric shock therapy on addicts and had local govt protection. Fcuk them.
DiscoJer
Member
Back then games weren't designed to be deliberately addicting though. The whole F2P industry (particularly mobile gaming) is about constantly designing a new and better skinner box.
The reality is that people are not always in control of their actions and F2P game designers try to take advantage of this, just like gambling machine designers or drug dealers. Games are being designed to manipulate someone's brain chemistry, particularly those prone to addiction.
hanspampel
Banned
Fuck you get a stroke just for playing 40 hours non-stop?
Already had one and you don't survive the third
MisterHero
Super Member
Good. They need to figure out how to make more satisfying games for less time and money, and don't figuratively introduce gambling to children.
I misread it as seizure. Now I'm surprised that it said he suffered a stroke.
killatopak
Member
People are stupid and no matter what restrictions you put on them they'll still do stupid things.
You don't know what you're talking about. This is a MOBA not a Gacha game.
You don't know what you're talking about. This is a MOBA not a Gacha game.
It is not possible in todays Chinese gaming climate. We will pay for 20 yuan for pirated discs instead of 48 yuan for a legit copy. Piracy is the reason Chinese single player games industry collapsed and then we semi-invented F2P.
Huh what's the difference 😗
MikeE21286
Member
50mm people daily?!?!?
A kid stupid enough to play a game for 40hrs straight or a kid stupid enough to jump out of a window because he couldn't play would have killed themselves in some other way.
They damn well should be. Games don't hijack the minds of these kids. They don't cause physical dependency.
If anyone's to blame, I would point to the parents for not teaching their kids how to live a balanced and healthy life.
phantasmic_glaive
Member
Holy shit at some of the responses in here.
I guess some don't have a fucking clue what REAL addiction is. Especially in a young person who doesn't even have full control over himself yet.
I guess some don't have a fucking clue what REAL addiction is. Especially in a young person who doesn't even have full control over himself yet.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
It's not so different from the coin-op era. Though I can appreciate that the methods of designing addictive games have gotten more sophisticated.
Maintenance
Member
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LelouchZero
Member
Damn, the stories in the OP are crazy. It's really sad to hear about those things happening.
Starbuck2907
Member
They had daily time limits on World of Warcraft years ago. Lots of censorship too.
WaterAstro
Member
Literally taking Chinese Copycat to the next level... copying their own games.
Cow Mengde
Banned
I've seen house wives play this on the bus here in Guangzhou.
Also, cool that my city is making headlin--Oh... damn.
I have always wondered if my race is genetically more susceptible to gambling and gaming addictions.
SmartWaffles
Member
For us this is beyond a simple "video game limitation", for many it reads into the Chinese government's current social control issues, recent social media unrest, and cultural policy changes. The government simply wants to have control on anything that has widespread cultural impact, if a business juggernaut like Tencent becomes a target, it is pretty much from higher ups.
Serious question...has anyone ever heard of a story like these (stroke after 40 hours of playing...jumping from third floor because games taken away) for any country but China? I think perhaps i have heard of one from Korea...but otherwise every single story is from China. Perhaps it has happened but i haven't heard it.
I would say they have the lionshare of these types of stories but I dont have any hard numbers.
Id guess that cultural differences and other factors play a large role but in a way where its not obvious what the result of factors x y and z would be by themselves.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Is that how awful things have become? Random reward loot crates and the like are still gambling and always have been. Your litteraly saying it'snot the worse from of gambling this not gambling!
It'a fyckedup how perverse it has gotten.