TENCENT announced yesterday that it will limit the daily time for youngsters to play (it)popular King of Glory game after parents and schools in Shanghai and other areas complained their children had become addicted to playing it.
From tomorrow, children younger than 12 (allow) only to play the game for a maximum of one hour a day, and after 9 pm, they will be banned logging(登录) into it, said Tencent. Teenagers older than 12 will be able to play a maximum two hours a day.
The game system will remind players the time they have been playing and young players will be forced to log out
the time is up.
Tencent claimed these were the (strict) measures in China's game industry to prevent (addict) and the company expected they would ease parents' anxiety.
There have been several cases (report) that children had spent too much money as well as time on King of Glory, Tencent said it will add new function to limit spending of teenage players. The company also said it had updated system for parents to monitor children (use)its games.
Now, parents can connect phones, tablets or computers their children use (play )games, so that they can always keep an eye on the children even if they have several game accounts, Tencent said.
