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China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent. (gamerant.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by cyd@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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These laws will ban rewards for spending money within a game for the first time, ban rewards for buying consecutive microtransactions, and ban rewards for daily log-ins.

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[-] Nephalis@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 11 months ago

Do you all expect localization is tied to laws for china? I realy don't think so. Most games are split into global and asia/chinese versions anyway. Why should they remove these mechanics when it isn't necessary for the market they operate in?

[-] echo64@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

The thought process is that for many games, the majority of their revenue comes from these mechanics and from China. The games themselves will need to change to get revenue flowing. And new games won't be made with this revenue source in general.

This is similar to how eu regulations can lead to global changes sometimes, China is a big enough market to affect things globally.

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Yep, I'm not in the EU but thanks to the GDPR I still see the cookies thing on almost every website I go, sometimes these things have a good ripple effect.