“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.”

  • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
    59·
    7 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·
      7 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·
      7 months ago

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

    • kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social
      9·
      7 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.”