Chinese Minors can't PK anymore :(

[DeeBye]

http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=4211

China bans minors under 18 from playing online games that allow players to kill other players

Shanghai.  August 3.  INTERFAX-CHINA - Chinese authorities unveiled new regulations on Tuesday that will prohibit minors under the age of 18 from playing more violent online games, which currently dominate the Chinese online gaming market.

Effective immediately, all minors are banned from playing online games in which players are allowed to kill other players, an activity that has been termed Player Kills (PK). China's Ministry of Culture (MOC) and Ministry of Information Industry (MII) have also ordered the country's online game operators to develop identity authentication systems that prevent minors from playing games. These authentication systems would require all players to first enter their Citizen ID Card numbers before being allowed to play games that allow Player Kills. No timetable was given for when these authentication systems must be implemented.

"Minors should not be allowed to play online games that have PK content, that allow players to increase the power of their own online game characters by killing other players," Liu Shifa, head of the MOC's Internet Culture Division, which drafts policies governing the online gaming market, told Interfax. "Online games that have PK content usually also contain acts of violence and leads to players spending too much time trying to increase the power of their characters. They are harmful to young people."

There's more in that article about enforcing time restrictions for playing online games at internet cafes, forcing players to log off after a set amount of time.

Man, people take computer games way too seriously.

So now if you're ever PKed by some punk kid from China, you can report him and get his ass sent to juvie B)