From in-game control to out-of-game diversion

On September 1, Tencent’s 99 Charity Day was officially launched, and the protection of minors was placed at the opening of the theme day to protect the healthy growth of minors in all aspects. Under the wave of mobile Internet, how to guide minors to use the Internet correctly has always been a social problem. Since 2017, Tencent Games has continuously explored measures to protect minors and is committed to creating a good online environment for minors.

Over the years, Tencent Games has always attached great importance to the protection of minors and proposed many measures to better supervise minors’ surfing the Internet.

On the one hand, Tencent Games continues to raise the technical threshold in the game to limit the gaming activities of minors. Take the lead in launching a "face recognition" system in the industry to solve the problem of minors fraudulently using parental identity information to play games. Thanks to this, according to the latest data, in July 2021, an average of 8.25 million accounts and 49,000 accounts trigger facial recognition verification during the login process and 49,000 accounts during the payment process every day in July 2021. 92.4% of the accounts were included in the anti-addiction supervision, and 85.3% of the accounts in the payment link were blocked from recharging, effectively preventing minors from indulging in online behavior.

What’s more worth mentioning is that just in the past August, Tencent Games has further upgraded its in-game control measures, upgrading the “zero cruise” that restricts suspected minors from staying up late games to “all-day cruise”, which is suspicious All accounts have been re-authenticated, and strict control measures have been introduced to prohibit minors aged 12 and below from recharging, and reasonably regulate the length of time that minors spend online.

On the other hand, Tencent Games is also trying to provide more services and support outside of the game to "groom" children's gaming behavior. It is understood that Tencent Games has launched a service platform for parents of minors. In addition to providing parents with special treatment of irrational consumption of minors, the platform also provides 1V1 free in-depth education and guidance to promote parent-child relationship guidance; through the cooperation with Beijing Normal University jointly established the Internet Literacy Research Center for minors to improve the Internet literacy of minors and help children make good use of the Internet, experience more high-quality digital content, and better survive in the digital world.Let minors learn to surf the Internet and use the Internet reasonably.

In the future, Tencent Games will continue to pay attention to the growth of minors and introduce more measures to help minors get online correctly and play games reasonably.

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