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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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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[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The S$20000 ($15000) Genshin Impact buying spree incident in Singapore had indirectly contributed to proposed legislation.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The what?

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Which part of china is Singapore in?

[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

A lot of games are starting to display warnings to spend wisely when purchasing premium currency.