Afraid of young buffalo impersonating parents, the “father” of Arena of Valor asks for a new face to enter the game

As you know, China is a market that has quite strict requirements for fighting game addiction Teen gamer, this is clearly shown in the principle of “limit playing, limit loading, ban playing games all night”. However, there are policies above, there are countermeasures below, many “sneer” teenage gamers also use their parents’ identification numbers to register an account to bypass the game publisher’s monitoring system.​

Tencent Announcement of new facial recognition policy

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And to limit this phenomenon, Tencent recently decided to tighten the policy, requiring gamers to recognize faces when logging in to the game, and compare it with police data to verify the age of the player. gamer. Accounts that refuse to recognize faces will be placed on the anti-gaming list for minors, only allowed to play the game for 1.5 hours a day, on days off from playing for no more than 3 hours, and from about From 10pm to 8am the next day, you can’t enter the game. This program will start testing right away in Tencent’s 2 hottest games King of Glory (Arena of valor) and Game For Peace (PUBG Mobile).​

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Not only that, for accounts that are suspected of being created by minors impersonating adults, if each month loads more than 400 yuan (1.3 million dong) or shows signs of unusual game loading, immediately Tencent’s system will send a face recognition request. If the request is denied, the player will not be able to continue loading the game.​

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In the past, there have been many cases where children used their parents’ accounts to play games, then due to lack of knowledge, they spent tens or even hundreds of millions of dong on virtual items that came to themselves. don’t even know what. It can be said that this new policy of Tencent is a good way to prevent this phenomenon.

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