When Politics interfere with the virtual world it’s always interesting. The New regime in the United States has already shown signs of aggression towards China. They have placed US missile system on South Korean turf. China sees this event as a controversy and wants to retaliate. We don’t expect a world war between two of the biggest empires, US and China. However, China wants to punish South Korea for assisting the states. In a new warrant, China bans Korean gaming companies from publishing their games in China. Furthermore, Chinese gaming companies can’t publish their games in South Korea.

The bureaucracy behind the procedure is quite easy. Every game has to pass China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT). However, China aren’t giving more licenses for South Korean gaming companies. Hence, Nexon, the Korean Gaming giant has lost already 9% of it’s value. It happened because they rely heavily on the Chinese market with several of their games. Lineage 2 for mobile by NetMarble was a huge success in it’s lunch in Korea, making over 156 million dollars in the first month, but not anymore.

I find this a sad example of regimes that take advantage of their people. In my opinion, a regime should emphasize on improving the lives of the citizens. People don’t care about politics, especially children who just want to have fun and play games. I don’t think that a D&D player really cares about US missile systems. Furthermore, the economy depends on the online gaming industry, Hurting companies profits will damage the workers. The global market isn’t free if governments interfere like that in business.

China has already banned K-Pop from it’s soil and banning Korean gaming companies is another step of deterioration between the countries. I hope that the crisis will be solved and that Chinese players will be able to play Korean Games and vice versa

What do you think? how will this crisis end?

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In a recent report from the economic times it was announced that China bans minors from playing between 00:00 AM to 08:00 AM. This is a precautionary step in the battle against gaming addiction. The ban requires some technological adjustments for the regime and for the players. However, gaming addiction is a serious problem in China. The country operates boot camps for rehabilitation, as mentioned in this CNN report. These boot camps conduct brain scanning and other disciplinary processes to assert the addiction problem. One might think if this is the correct treatment for an acute problem.

China doesn’t let Google or Facebook operate in their territory, 70% of the world wide internet traffic doesn’t reach china. Therefore, their social networks and search networks who are operated by the regime get a huge amount of traffic. Because the virtual reality in china is different than the one we know i would like to share my thoughts on the new recent ban. Therefore, gaming addiction doesn’t sound very serious. I remember that during my childhood i could have played 10 hours straight of football manager, Those were both great and miserable times. However, my problem wasn’t severe enough. In the testimonials of the boot camps refugees it seems like they had a serious problem. Some of them mention 30 hour gaming sprees, where they couldn’t distinguish between real life and virtual life.

One of the claims of the psychologists is that players get a lot of gratification from the virtual reality while in real life they are a bit of outcasts. I think that gaming is great, that is why i’m writing these articles. However, like everything in life it has to come in appropriate proportions. When i had an exam period and all i did was playing Far Cry i wasn’t surprised that my grades went south. Therefore, my message for you is: Gaming is awesome, but don’t overdo gaming. It will mess up your life. Maybe the China Ban will work, maybe not, but the ban certainly sheds some light on a serious problemץ

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