Re: It didn't help my studies much either
"I'm sure that all those teenagers glued to their smartphones will suffer no consequences at all."
The pervasiveness of loot boxes, gambling and spending money in current games is an area where I beg to differ
Gambling addictions are already a recognised problem and many of these things exploit our natural tendency to go for rewards, etc
Translating this as "spiritual opium" doesn't even come close to describing how the Chinese government is portraying this
'Opium' is more-or-less synonomous with "deadly poison" in Chinese society thanks to the opium wars and the Century of Humiliation. This kind of tag is tantamount to a western government calling games publishers crack or meth-pushers (and gamers, crackheads/tweakers)
(Even comparing the kneejerk reaction to "opium" to our reaction to "crackheads" or "methheads" isn't close to how bad the connotations are for chinese, but it may give some idea)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
