Category: Technology Author : Duncan Riley Posted: August 31, 2008
Tags : china, chinese, Online Games
Millions of young Chinese are addicted to unhealthy online games, a committee of China’s National People’s Congress reported. “Unhealthy” games in Chinese government standard refers to those that feature violence, pornography, and unpatriotic games.
Because of this, the Chinese government is calling for stricter monitoring of “unhealthy” Internet games, recommending that games should automatically log off once a set number of hours of continuous playing is reached. In 2006, Internet game developers were told to install technology that asks, or should we say demand, real name and identification number.
Li Jianguo, vice-chariman of the National People’s Congress said that Internet-addicted teenagers account for about 10 percent of China’s web users. With more than 200 million Internet users in China, that’s millions of “unhealthy” young Chinese and a huge business for “unhealthy” game developers.
But at times, I can’t blame these kids. They need some relaxation after competing at a young age at the Olympics or after a hard-days work manufacturing our cool iPhones or after lip-synching backstage because you’re not cute enough to be shown to the world. Okay, but please, when you relax, no “unhealthy” online games. Go play Halo3, instead.
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Aug 31, 2008
here's a video i grabbed late last year that shows how the chinese deal with kids internet addiction – they stun them!
http://www.centernetworks.com/chinese-internet-…
Aug 31, 2008
Yes it is! Ducan ,there are too many kids I know addicted to it,they make crazy on MMORPG,”unhealthy”? No,it 's very very harmful for them even if they know it.
Nov 18, 2008
I own a flash games site and I must say that when browsing through sometimes the games do become very very addictive, if you've heard of a game called minor then that's very addictive, think i've spent over an hour trying to complete that in the past.
Dec 17, 2008
Online games are getting each day new people playing. Flash games are everywhere…
Dec 28, 2008
Well not really surprising to read this. I also own a flash game portal and get great results on page views average by visitors. This industry is really huge and I read an article saying that the casual game industry remained untouchable by the economic crash.
Jan 1, 2009
Same thing I experienced. But the best thing to do is giving the best surfer experience on your site by giving good tools like a search engine, classify games by genres and sub genres, let people express themselves by enabling comments on games. This is what we call the web 2.0.
Feb 24, 2009
its all about the Games the web 2.0 way. assign genres / sub genres and classify the games, enable comments on games so that the people can express themselves.
Feb 25, 2009
Online games are being popular every day, not only kids also adults like me are addicted to online games..
Mar 4, 2009
I own a flash games site and I must say that when browsing through sometimes the games do become very very addictive, if you've heard of a game called minor next that's very addictive, assume i've spent over an hour trying to complete that in the gone.
Mar 5, 2009
it is dangerous if we addicted on playing game, however, as long as we can contrl ourselve, playing games is a good way to relax yourself from your stressful life.
Mar 6, 2009
any things can bring benefits or disadvatages
if we can control well, flash game is good for relaxing
Mar 13, 2009
i also playing online games sometime, it is really can make us addicted, however, i do not have much free time like child, so i am forced to control myself