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China to Curb Excessive Online Games Spending in New Tightening
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My impression of this line is "we would like you to also follow these laws when publishing your games abroad and not to use 2 different monetisation models, one in china vs one in the west, in order to milk the anglos pockets because they have very poor regulators."
My guess here is that they're trying to rein in the gaming industry to extend Chinese soft-power. They want the monetisation models to be more popular and they want these models to be used by their companies globally. They want Chinese games to have less awful models than western games as a means of affecting gamer opinions of China.
It's a good idea. West will either ignore it and their soft power will grow, or the west will do something about the models in their own industries.
Gaming is the new hollywood imo. It should be the focus of soft power growth.
I agree. It would be really funny though if unequal exchange could be overturned solely through exporting gacha games though.
Century of Humiliation but it's just chinese people pointing and laughing at gullible westerners spending thousands for pngs of waifus.
To effectively weaponise the medium they need to move off of gacha games and into single player games that have a significantly larger cultural impact.
The gacha games have no cultural impact. The GaaS multiplayer pvp games like cod, overwatch and so on also have no cultural impact. They aren't influencing people's minds or opinions much if at all.
The games that do are the singleplayer immersive experiences, because the IMMERSION is the part that sucks people into being influenced by the story, environment, world, etc.
The biggest cultural impact of call of duty is in 12 year olds telling you they fucked your mom, and the biggest cultural impact of Overwatch is pornography.
The single player titles have all of the cultural influence, they are where minds get shaped.