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China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent. (gamerant.com)
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These laws will ban rewards for spending money within a game for the first time, ban rewards for buying consecutive microtransactions, and ban rewards for daily log-ins.

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[–] Ilflish@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well China doesn't like companies having power so this is a way to neuter them, especially in response to trying to limit online game consumption already.

Edit: Tencent is apparently the most profitable company in china right now so this is a direct attack at their profits most likely, not just China doing good

Edit2: This video goes into it a bit https://youtu.be/uieLEIVlQgc?si=mNiOlXPn9k7V6XX-