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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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 Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:40 am Post subject: SK Gaming Curfew |
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Just saw this checking out the news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8617372.stm
This seems to be an okay idea:
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| barring online gaming access to young people of school age between 12pm and 8am. |
This does not seem so good:
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| The other policy suggests slowing down people's internet connections after they have been logged on to certain games for a long period of time. |
I am an adult, and I pay for my own 'net access. What makes it okay for the govt to slow down my internet because I "might play too much" or "use too much"? If there is downloading going on all night that is my business- so long as I pay my bills there shouldn't be an issue. That's what unlimited high speed internet is all about! |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:52 am Post subject: |
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It is unlikely this will ever affect you.
The games are Korean MMORPGs, which are basically inaccessible to foreigners who don't possess a very good command of Korean. The list of games is only 19 out of hundreds, and you'd have to be playing them in access of something like 8 hours straight before you'd have an issue. Some games already have this kind of feature built in. If you play too much in a given day your character becomes a little less effective.
In Korea AION doesn't even have a monthly subscription, only 300 hours/month subscription. |
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jugbandjames
Joined: 15 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:02 am Post subject: |
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| This is a tad off topic, but does anyone play Aion on one of the North American servers from Korea? What's the latency like? |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| jugbandjames wrote: |
| This is a tad off topic, but does anyone play Aion on one of the North American servers from Korea? What's the latency like? |
I think some have. The Korean version is pretty playable even without knowing much Korean as it is pretty pull you by the nose.
I remember reading something about some people ordering the NA version here. I expect the latency is like other games. Usually in the 200-250ish range. If you wanted to get a general ID you could fire up any free to play game from NA and see how it runs. I ran Perfect World European Multilanguage for a couple weeks to try it out but it was a bit high around 380ms. |
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Goon-Yang
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:57 am Post subject: |
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This is to all the Korean parents out there. Take responsibility for your kids actions. If they play games all night...it's not the games fault. Don't blame the internet, the government and don't blame foreigners (we invented the internet and games after all. Be real parents.
If your kid has a problem, then do something. Put a pass word on his computer. Take the computer...take the disk.
The Korean governement should start forcing Koreans to be better parents, not doing parent's jobs for them. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Goon-Yang wrote: |
This is to all the Korean parents out there. Take responsibility for your kids actions. If they play games all night...it's not the games fault. Don't blame the internet, the government and don't blame foreigners (we invented the internet and games after all. Be real parents.
If your kid has a problem, then do something. Put a pass word on his computer. Take the computer...take the disk.
The Korean governement should start forcing Koreans to be better parents, not doing parent's jobs for them. |
I'm sure those Korean parents are hearing loud and clear here on Dave's. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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its funny that the article mentions the parents that let their kid starve while they played games.
And this curfew discussion was nowhere to be found in Korean English news
PC Bang owners club must be hurtin- im sure they don't want this bill to get passed  |
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crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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| ThingsComeAround wrote: |
its funny that the article mentions the parents that let their kid starve while they played games.
And this curfew discussion was nowhere to be found in Korean English news
PC Bang owners club must be hurtin- im sure they don't want this bill to get passed |
Do you even pay attention to what anyone has said?
Why would it be in the English news? The chances of it affecting anyone in Korea who isn't fluent in Korean is next to 0. It will have little effect on PC Bang owners because it is not system wide. It only affects a select few games and doesn't include all the popular games, only some.
Students can pick which 6 hour block they want to be unable to access games during, which means most of them will pick the time when they are in school. |
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ticktocktocktick
Joined: 31 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:54 pm Post subject: |
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If you read the Korea Herald article linked to by the BBC, you'll see it's not 8 hours as reported by the beeb, but 6 hours between 12-8am. I suspect most will choose the 2-8am shutdown, which won't make much difference. Teenagers really need to be in bed long before 2am!
Apply it to all Korean online games, from 11pm-8am and it might make a difference to these kids. |
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