Korea Bans Late Night Gaming Amidst “MMORPG Epidemic”

What took them so long!

Sucks to be a kid in Korea, then doesn't it.
At the same time, though, there really isn't a need for a bunch of little kids to be up playing MMO's past midnight anyways. Whatever happened to sleeping?

Hahahahha, how does the government think it's going to impose this ban? by blocking ports for those titles at those times? Kids are intuitive these days, not to mention it should be up to the parents not the government.. then again this IS Korea we're talking about, albeit South Korea..

Fuck that, if the "parents actually doing parenting" line really worked in the practical world, it wouldn't have to be repeated all the time. Too easy to say, not so easy to do and enforce.

What, you think you guys are geniuses for figuring that out? I think you're all idiots for saying it all the time and yet failing to ever see it work.

Nexon games ban underage kid good =)

Anon 2035

Parent should tell the kids to use computer at age of 11.

The reason for that is they dont even know how to protect the computer and search the web carefully.

Parenting is not easy as you think. it takes a lot of responsibility and hardship.

Besides if you decide as a single, that's fine. however, it gets boring and lonely.

Not to sound stupid but North or South???

*makes account*
"what year were you born?"
*1967*

While I think a fatigue system is a good idea, I think it's a bit of bullshit to have it legally mandated. And banning late night gaming is just a terrible idea.

Usually it's the parents who are doing all the mmorpging and starving their children

Wait, is this North Korean or Sou--

Oh, yeah. Only one has electricity. Nevermind.

well atleast MMORPG players are not on the streets shooting at them selves...

What's the point? This only limits the elementary school tards.

Middle school grade 3, i can use my parent's Social number to make an adult account, which does not carry the inconveniences of a minor's acc.

And it's 19 in korea, though the actual age is pretty much the same. This ban won't do shit.

test...

Needs lesser "parents let tv do the rearing" and more "child beating"

No fatigue meter. HATE fatigue meter just a time-waster and makes game annoying.

This ban is fail btw.

The solution is easy: no internet for kids up to 11 or 12 years.

I mean all you need is to not give the kids an ethernet cable or a wlan-antenna and they won't be able to access the i-net at all. Seriously, kids don't need the internet (at least we didn't need it in our grade school/early high school days, so there's no excuse to let your children go online) since the school doesn't force you to reports until you're at an age where you can gather reliable information(and even then,books are still better references <_<).

The internet is far worse than plating MMORPGs though, because while you're in another world, at least you're save from the perverts that lurk out there like child abusers,porn distributors, sects and cults, drug sellers and specific political organizations that are lurking everywhere out there (not to mention the hackers and other criminal identities...).

So the best solution would be to force the parents to ban their kids from using the internet via law. That way,nobody's gonna get harmed in any way (I seriously doubt that just banning MMORPGS would help, maybe they will just roam the net instead at night and get on suspicious sites like facebook/twitter/etc.).

Didn't do a thing but make companies loose money. They just got back on using parent info and a gaming they went.

FAIL.

Good now that prevents the Koreans from playing on Starcraft 2.

OMG!! whats going to happen to the korean servers on wow?!

how will the ever finish ICC25 hardmode now! its the end of the world

*sarcasim thoughout

hey i remember playing stronghold crusaders and sometimes it said have a snack sire,take a nap sire and don't know what all it said.No such messages in these games?

Reducing drop rates...

That will force the insomniacs to invest even more time into the game.

ie. Bad Gamblers will keep gambling even if losing, similar argument.

Surely lowering the drop rates means people will play for even longer.

B-b-b-but i need to get my hunter to lv 99..:(

TRUST. YOUR. GOVERNMENT. THEY. KNOW. BETTER. THAN. YOU.

Government have millions of "ADVISORS" and "TACTICIANS" and "COMMITTEES" and "SENATE PANEL HEARINGS"

Government have Unlimited resources and can do everything for you like;

Providing Food, Shelter, and Jobs
Health Care
Low Mortgage rates
A Bright Shiny Future without pain or suffering

And most importantly - The Government has;

Change
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Do you need anything else/ I think Not =D

I'm Barack Obama and i approved this message.

No need to ban.:S

Did they mention how they're going to ENFORCE this shit?

What about people who keep their characters online because they're selling stuff in shops and too cheap to afford proxy vending features?

Parents doing PARENTING!?
Now that's just crazy talk, Artefact. No, Clearly this is the only solution.

And to think that all that time you waste on a game is vanishing into thin air. Just imagine, that if you invest that time to make some advancements in your life, how much more enjoyable it could be? Wouldnt you want to have fit body, a cute girl, a car, a nice job? So having a non-existent 80 lvl character, who exist purely in your brain, and in some bits on HDD, is better, right?

The “fatigue” system should be standard. Otherwise playing the game without sacrificing your life (if you have one) is kind of difficult. In fact, it should be sufficient to get 2h playtime per day, but then again the whole concept is to get the players spending their life/money on it.

btw I propose to BAN CHILDREN from the interwebz. Solves all problems in one ban.

Let MMORPG companies implement the time tracker on a separate server, giving players a welcome invite to ddos it.
Government: "Mhhm...."
MMO Devs: "We tried..." *shifty eyes*

So now they'll need to play even more thanks to the reduction of drop rates, and they'll need to play twice as many accounts/characters because they can still play the second character while the first one is tired and suffers from those reduced rates safely.
Way to make the games even harder and more time consuming.
Raising the drop/exp rates so people actually need to spend less time in the game didn't even occur to them as a possibility?