'Real name verification system' that can not play games without entering real name started in China from September 2020

From September 2020, it is reported that the operation of a 'real name verification system' that can play the game without logging in with a real name will start in China in order to prevent youth from overplaying the game.

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China's real name verification system for games to launch nationwide by September | South China Morning Post
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On July 31, China's national media and people's network said, 'At the China International Digital Interactive Entertainment Exhibition 2020 , we are introducing a 'real name verification system' to prevent young people from being overly absorbed in games. The system is scheduled to go live by September.'

According to Feng Shixin of the Communist Party Central Public Relations Bureau, who was interviewed by the People's Network, the introduction of the real name verification system will allow Chinese players to play games unless they enter a real name that can be matched with the ID number assigned to the people. It will not be there. In China, Tencent and NetEase, the largest game companies in Japan, have already introduced their own real name system, but it is expected that the implementation of the real name verification system will force other game companies to adopt the real name system. I will.

Feng also said during the event, 'Regulators have already begun to inspect the game and will do more in the future.' In July 2020, it was reported that 'Apple has frozen games that have been distributed without permission over the past few years in the Chinese App Store', and finally in August, 'Unlicensed games or app that nearly 30,000 have been deleted from the Chinese app Store ' in the obvious has become, it is expected to go tightened further monitoring of China over the game in the future.

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Games have been regulated in various ways in China even before the real name verification system came into effect, but Chinese children are circumventing such regulations by hand. According to the Hong Kong daily English newspaper South China Morning Post, Chinese children enjoy playing games by using fake IDs and by going in and out of cafes that lend out smartphones configured to play games. There are even children in the acting school who hold their throat in their hands and make a crying voice, impersonate their grandfather and make a phone call to trick the support center of the game company.

Regarding the new system that will be introduced as the game of adults who wants to regulate the game and children who want to play the game as many times as they like, South China Morning Post said, ``With the real name verification system introduced in September, children will be further We may have to come up with innovative tricks,' he said.