noveltyhero Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Several articles: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-34592186 http://qz.com/519737/all-chinese-citizens-now-have-a-score-based-on-how-well-we-live-and-mine-sucks/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28314-inside-chinas-plan-to-give-every-citizen-a-character-score/ You can just google it. Summary China is adding a point system for being a good or bad citizen, right now it is optional but around 2020 it is mandatory. i.e Working an "actual" job=good rating Playing games all day=bad rating Buying things from local market=good rating Buying things from Japan=bad rating Being friends with person with bad rating=bad rating Posting online about real problems with chinese economy=bad rating Posting online about the greatness of chinese government=good rating Benefits include better loan approval, travel arrangements etc. No penalties yet but they will likely be implemented, such as some jobs are unavailable to you if you have bad rating. Opinions? IMO this is the kind of fudged up stuff you see in movies. The principle of this was in the japanese movie Battle Royale, seriously, this stuff is messed up. Especially if it leaks to other countries, I am not worried about the west, but other countries can become isolated really fast with this kind of system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valiant Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 (edited) Wait... so what if your job is actually making/developing/playing games? But yeah, this is the sort of stuff you see in 'dark' futuristic films. Edited December 16, 2015 by Naith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RainbowCandyCat Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Down with the commies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noveltyhero Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Wait... so what if your job is actually making/developing/playing games? But yeah, this is the sort of stuff you see in 'dark' futuristic films. I assume it would depend on the content you put out. But tbh seeing as how censored games are there (they need government approval) I doubt you'd be in trouble. Not many games there about rebellions if you know what I mean :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverlordMcGeek Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 (edited) Finally a government I can get behind. Also, Battle Royale? Really? Edited December 16, 2015 by OverlordMcGeek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prime Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 (edited) Wait... so what if your job is actually making/developing games? as long as you don't play these games ;) Edited December 16, 2015 by -.A.-Prime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)MakoPriest Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 rip chinas video game market Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero.No.Hikari Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Welp there went the Chinese gold seller market of all games that they do it on. Unless that's a job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(XBOX)MK Ultra K11 Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Finally a government I can get behind. Also, Battle Royale? Really? *facepalm* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bejuizb Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 This is horrifying to me... A gamified scoring system for people and their behaviours is the sort of stuff you read in really dark and dystopian sci-fi stories. The system "positively" reinforces you to get in line and be patriotic, while cutting ties with anything that the authorities don't like. I sincerely hope that such a terrible and cruel system doesn't spread to anywhere else in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsher Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Finally a government I can get behind. Xi Jinping would be proud of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverlordMcGeek Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Xi Jinping would be proud of you. Don't make me blush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Don't make me blush. McGeek please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsher Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Don't make me blush. Look, glorious leader waves at you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OverlordMcGeek Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Look, glorious leader waves at you. That face is so adorable and you just can't resist following it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsher Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 That face is so adorable and you just can't resist following it. I heard glorious leader is big follower of McGeekxNoamuth ship. Go, make glorious leader proud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.ToastForPresident Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 See, this is why Warframe was mostly bought out by some seemingly random Chinese company, because if the company isn't Chinese, they would be considered a bad person. This is sort of messed up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eftycchia Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 See, this is why Warframe was mostly bought out by some seemingly random Chinese company, because if the company isn't Chinese, they would be considered a bad person. This is sort of messed up This is true. But again, government power will always topple everything else when it comes to rules. There's nearly no option for Chinese people if they want to play warframe other than letting a company buy a fair share of DE's company and their income. Thinking this through at first, we actually found the real answer as to why some random Chinese food provider bought a part of DE. And it's pretty sad considering the fact that it's the government themselves that made the score system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero.No.Hikari Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 One big question is what's gonna happen with most of the underground things in China are those gonna big bad ratings or just ignored. I know most of the online interactions per person are tied to their info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freelancer27 Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Organically, I find China making a game on itself by having a system of "doing work tasks gets good ratings, while those who don't will be put behind" literally the Mindset of video games set on Real Life. While I find discouragement of idling around is a good thing, it would also put those who did lost their proper jobs recently to a punishing state where they usually learning/adapting to get another job only to get themselves deducted for "doing nothing". In addition, Xenophobia appears to subtly around this module and this is really something other countries should be concerned especially when this is growing already on the US. Personal food for thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artekkor Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 The idea definetly has potential, but the examples you shown are terrible. What if video games are reason i want to live in the first place? What if my criticism of the goverment is a constructive one with hope to make country better? And i will have bad rating for that? This is just stupid. I would say "F*** you" to those who thought of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAYABU5A Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 why are you guys surprised by this ? its a communist country, that just how that governmental system operates specifically a right-wing leninist state which is worst than just communist, meaning the political theory that a single party rules the government and governs all affairs as opposed to individual politicians you have to remember there is a huge population in china the point system of bad or good citizen is completely normal, classic even for leninist states, just another attempt to access and control the masses within that system the irony is the economic needs of trying to become a first world superpower forced them to relax and allow private ownership of property or capital which goes against the fundamentals of communism which are suppose to be higher social order with all goods equally shared by the people to create a classless society (instead it just made the disparity between rich and poor worse, increased corruption, number 1 polluter of the planet) fear not, it cant spread because all experts agree its completely unsustainable socially (let alone economically) and will collapse from the inside as it already is you can expect great changes from the asia region in the future, there will be a huge shift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavenousPartyLibrarian Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 This... sounds like the first step to a totalitarian system. why are you guys surprised by this ? its a communist country, that just how that governmental system operates It's not how it's supposed to operate... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noveltyhero Posted December 17, 2015 Author Share Posted December 17, 2015 One big question is what's gonna happen with most of the underground things in China are those gonna big bad ratings or just ignored. I know most of the online interactions per person are tied to their info. Actually people already predict that a system like this will simply be exploited by the smarter people (where it is government officials or underground hacker), however the masses will succumb to something like this unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artekkor Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Remember: it's not the ideology that screws everything up. It's people and their actions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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