Tencent Launches Feature To Limit Minors Play Time
GAMEFINITY.ID, Salatiga – r game developergiant from China, Tencent Games has launched one of the useful features for limit game play time excessive among children and minors.
Tencent’s time limit feature has been released since Tuesday, July 6, 2021 for the territory of China.
This program takes advantage of the features Facial Recognition or verify the face on the Smartphone to recognize the player’s face and age.
The face verification system is linked to data from the central public security system. Then automatically players who are caught as minors or refuse facial verification will be removed from the game.
This feature is expected to help monitor players and detect individuals who spend a lot of time online especially at night.
“We will carry out facial checks for accounts that are registered with real names and that have been playing for a certain period of time in the evening,”
“Anyone who refuses or fails facial verification will be treated as a minor. And as stated in Tencent’s anti-addiction surveillance game health system, the player will exit the game automatically.” Tencent on his post on Weixin QQ.
As a first step, Tencent will launch a face filtering feature for 60 popular games, including “Honor of Kings” and “Game for Peace”. Tencent will continue to add to its list of games in the future.
This program is a form of Tencent’s collaboration with the Chinese Government in overcoming the problem of playing time for children and underage teenagers.
Previously in 2021 the Chinese government had issued a law that limited the freedom of minors to play games.
The law requires game players to register with real names, prohibits children from playing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., and limits in-game purchases.
The Chinese government and authorities were forced to step in after the increase in cases of children related to online games.
Starting from teenagers who steal money to Top Up their game account up to spent a lot of time in internet cafe.
This of course raises concerns for parents and the Chinese Government over the physical and mental well-being of young gamers.
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