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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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[–] Aielman15@lemmy.world 78 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Very rare China W.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Seriously seeing this come from China is

Mildly confusing, very unexpected but very much a cool move.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago

China doing a better job regulating corporations than the west is nothing new.

Even this current one happened while Tencent was barely recovering from another regulation set last year. Kicking megacorps while they're down lol as they should.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml -4 points 11 months ago

Very common W