On the evening of August 30th, National Press and Publication Administration issued a notice, requiring all online game companies to only provide it to minors on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and statutory holidays from 20 to 21:00 every day 1 hour service. This means that under normal circumstances, underage players can play up to 3 hours a week, which is also known as the most stringent game ban in history.
September 4th is the first operation of the new anti-addiction regulations. All walks of life hope that the new anti-addiction regulations can curb the cancer of games, which is called "mental opium", and don't harm minors. . However, what is unexpected is that the teenagers who had been holding back for a week swarmed into the glory of the king under the call of "old Arthur", directly smashed the server of the glory of the king, and let the glory of the king board the Weibo Hot search.
What’s more surprising is that on September 6, Tencent was once again on the hot search, and the content was the topic of "Spending 33 yuan to rent for 2 hours for the glory of the king". What is even more contemplative is that the news that a 60-year-old lady in sixties uses Zhao Yun to take five kills at three o'clock in the morning has caused a large number of netizens to watch.
In response, Tencent Games responded that account renting and selling severely undermined the real-name system of games and the protection mechanism for minors. So far, Tencent has provided more than 20 account trading platforms and multiple email accounts. The business platform filed a lawsuit or sent a letter requesting the suspension of related services.
In view of the game ban, a series of social problems have been caused. In the middle of the night on September 8, the relevant officials of the Central Propaganda Department and the National Press and Publication Administration, together with the Central Cyberspace Administration, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and other departments,Interviews were held with key online game companies such as Tencent, NetEase , game account rental and sales platforms, and game live broadcast platforms.
The interview emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen the control of "krypton gold", to prevent unauthorized changes to game content, illegal operation of games and other behaviors, resolutely curb the wrong tendency of "only money" and "only traffic", and implement it to minors without compromise. People provide online game time limit. shall not provide minors with online game account rental and sales transaction services in any form.
As for the "My Milk Changshan Zhao Zilong" incident, at noon on September 9th, the Weibo Weibo of @Tencent growth guard responded that from the technical means and actual verification conclusions, the system believed that It is the "myself" who is playing the game. As for whether the account belongs to "other person's face" in reality, we can't judge, and we don't have the relevant authority to make further confirmation outside of the company's back-end data.
It can be seen that what happened in this series is actually all caused by "anti-addiction"! And this source is actually what we call the new era of Internet "drugs", spiritual opium-online games!
A set of heart-wrenching data
According to the “Research Report on the Internet Usage of Minors in China in 2020” released by the China Internet Network Information Center, among the minors currently using the Internet , 62.5% will often play games online, of which 56.4% play mobile games.
According to Tencent’s 2021 first half financial report,Minors under the age of 16 accounted for 2.6% of China's online game turnover, of which minors under the age of 12 accounted for only 0.3% (equivalent to a daily contribution of 2.4 million). In the first half of the year, Tencent's revenue was 273.562 billion yuan, and the company's net profit was 90.354 billion yuan, which is equivalent to a net profit of 500 million yuan per day.
Although, in the entire game kingdom, the proportion of online game turnover of minors under 12 seems to be small, but the impact is not small compared to minors without any source of income. , This includes children stealing parents’ money to recharge and contribute. It is worth noting that as early as 2017, the number of underage game players in the glory of Kings exceeded 6 million!
One game can poison minors like this! Seeing this, as the regulator, the platform, the family, and the society, should it be a comprehensive reflection? will collapse when the glory of the king collapses. Our focus should be more on how to protect minors and how to make the anti-addiction system more effective.
In the future, there will be a long-term tug of war between underage users and their parents and game companies. As for the game companies that push and walk, there are also some illegal personnel who use software to crack the face recognition in the anti-addiction system of online games for minors, and defraud them of money under the pretense of cracking the anti-addiction system of online games, hope the law Constrain them as soon as possible!
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