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China announces rules to reduce spending on video games (www.reuters.com)
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"Online games will now be banned from giving players rewards if they log in every day, if they spend on the game for the first time or if they spend several times on the game consecutively. All are common incentive mechanisms in online games."

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[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 59 points 11 months ago

Man do I hate daily log in rewards. I wonder if this will affect tencents games that are released in the west?

[-] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 23 points 11 months ago

China wants to remove the adverse affects of gambling/addiction from it's populace, not the world. This is just another facet like their social media restrictions.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 points 11 months ago

Yea they will have more shit to compensate for the losses in the Chinese market.

[-] kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

a word for such things is 'dark patterns'
it's not designed to be liked but to keep the player returning habitually and upping so called "retention."

this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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