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Posted: Jul 10th 2010 8:12PM Fishdinner said

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So basically they're safe from Evony ads? When's the next flight leave?

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 11:48PM Themoreyouknow said

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@Fishdinner
I'll come too.
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Posted: Jul 10th 2010 8:15PM mko said

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You mean like this http://comixed.com/2010/07/08/4-koma-comic-strip-come-play-my-lord/ ?

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 8:28PM Rob Liv said

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpdCJKPHzh8

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 10:14PM Esposch said

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@Rob Liv
Cool song, but why WoW characters rather than the original Avenue Q cast?
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Posted: Jul 10th 2010 8:33PM RKN said

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Ever heard of "sex sells"?

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 8:53PM Shadowbender said

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@RKN Sex cells?
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Posted: Jul 11th 2010 7:49PM mko said

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@Shadowbender Six cells?
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Posted: Jul 10th 2010 8:47PM KingBroly said

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So every game in China is banned now. Super.

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 8:52PM Undying said

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And the red cancer strikes again.

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 8:58PM Mach2 said

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I misunderstood the headline. So it's not just banning S&M in advertising?

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 8:59PM Shadowbender said

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So they'll allow violent and sexually inappropriate movies but not those kinds of games. There's so much bias against this industry. Online games aren't teaching children how to kill. It's the same as watching a movie, but one has a controller in hand to add a layer of player involvment.

Why can't the world just let us have what we crave for: Fun. When Chinese adults, in 15 years, look back at their chilhoods, they're going to remember the control and fear and restrictions. That's not cool.

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 10:08PM Esposch said

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@Shadowbender

Because if you have fun as a kid, you end up as a labourer.
And if you end up as a labourer, look forward to abysmal pay and 80 hour weeks.

China just doesn't have the money to afford to have fun and keep up growth.
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Posted: Jul 10th 2010 11:04PM EngadgetSoFunny said

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@Shadowbender
"Online games aren't teaching children how to "

Yes. Pretty much. You could have stopped there and summed up the valuable contribution most online games provides to kids. Some like Eve Online at least simulate an economic environment, diplomacy, etc.

I haz like all da t10 in wow. Im awesome-o-oooo-o! What.... the derivative of x^2? Geez, like lets run icc agn. Its tuesday!! Rise over run? Hmm are you talking about hte part in hor were Arthas is chasing you and you gotta run to Lady Sylvannas. God she's so hot and then kill the mobs before arthas comes and his aura does like massive dmg and you die really fast? omg I h8 that. OMG, its so gay!
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Posted: Jul 10th 2010 9:10PM einhanderkiller said

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But then the price of everything would go up 10x.

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 9:28PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

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They aren't banning violent or sexy games... they're just banning the use of violent and sexual ads for games.

If they did the former, it'd probably ban almost every Korean MMO the world plays.

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 9:42PM Faenix said

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@einhanderkiller

How so? pretty much everything I've seen has been a knock off of another product, and not a good one either. :/

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 10:05PM CaptainProtonX said

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THANK YOU!

I'm tired of the Evony ads when I hit my round of hentai sites.

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 10:20PM GuardianLegend said

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Boo China! Yay my nation of residence!

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 10:48PM EngadgetSoFunny said

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@Faenix
Prices would go up due to supply and demand. China combined with Taiwan, literately creates easily 95% of all goods you can buy in retail store excluding food. In the case of food, they are responsible for more around 40%. For example, High Lander's frozen fish is fished in China.

If you remove 95% of the products from retail shelves, those remaining would have huge demand and stores could literately charge 10x the amount and still sellout. They would just be selling to the top 3-4% of the population that holds 85% of the world's weath.

Posted: Jul 10th 2010 11:11PM Faenix said

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@EngadgetSoFunny

Never thought of that, though I wasnt aware that much stuff was China produced. o.O

Posted: Jul 11th 2010 9:28AM Brendan H said

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So in a story about China using porn stars to sell games, we get an ironic picture of a cutesy looking MMO? I'm disappointed, Griffin McElroy.

Posted: Jul 11th 2010 11:41AM Diogenes said

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This is just doublespeak for, "Bribe our officials or we will call your game sexual or violent even if it is just Pete Sampras tennis for seniors."

Posted: Jul 11th 2010 12:30PM PlasticRat said

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@Diogenes

Pretty much. Plus local publishers get a discount on the bribes.
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