This video is going to focus on gaming addiction issues amidst the Chinese youth. Why are they are getting addicted? What’s going on? And what can be done about it?
Chapters
1:39 What’s Gaming Addiction?
3:41 Prevalence
5:45 Causes: People
7:20 Causes: Games
9:25 What The Chinese Government is Doing
11:40 Conclusion
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LOL mobile games ain't even real gaming.
What happens when you combine:
1. Lockdowns
2. Entertainment
3. High competitiveness
Videos that blend social, technology, and china …. grab the popcorn
if not addicted to playing games … addicted to watching videos on internet instead
I have qualified for all of these. This sounds like helicopter parenting.
Ok boomer
Is not this the case in most countries where mobile phones are popular? Why emphasize China alone?
It is not just video games it is social media, YouTube and all the other new forms of entertainment that are simply more pleasure inducing that what came before. It makes sense that more dopamine our media can release in our brains the more problems we are going to have. And the future is scary because, for example right now companies like Valve are seriously researching brain to computer interfaces.
Well, most of these are untrue I have gotten into na argument over me gaming but that's because my mother loves scolding me when I'm working ._.
I think video games provides cheap entertainment compare to other hobbies plays a part in it. It's easy for students to install LOL or free to play games rather than ask for money to go hiking or travel etc. And the society doesn't value hobbies that much (I'm speaking as a Taiwanese)
I remember playing Lineage 2 (a South Korean MMO) 10-15 years ago when I was 15-20 years old. If I played for longer than 2-3 hours it kept spamming "You are playing for too long, take a rest." in the chat. I was quite outraged that now even games want to say to me what to do. 😀 Later I realized that there was some kind of law for this in SK, and they kept it in for the western version too.
To be honest, I think education nowadays is kinda horseshit. Instead of making it gamified (that the youth obviously enjoys) they make it a grind. Also what counts for addiction is very blurry. I used to play Runescape for 4 hours a day after school, didn't even think that I was addicted. Even as a 30 years old grown-up I don't think those hours were wasted at all.
People nowadays can be addicted to so many things, worse are alcohol, drugs, gambling even social media. Better addiction is work I presume but still, it's an addiction for many people. People always find something that gives them that dopamine rush being sex, food, or anything on that matter, and get hooked on it, even watching videos or TV. Driving fast as well I could argue is an addiction and driving in general for some people.
Underrated channel!
And yet Huya and soya stock prices keep going down.
Jokes aside, it's probably being used as escapism in most places
I have some friends and i know some chinese people here in my university in italy and they are always playing with their phone and with their heads down… i think it's a global problem but i notice that they're very extreme
did western young man not addicted to video games ？
did western young man not addicted to video games ？
A great video, it will be interesting to see if the Chinese government will be more effective in curtailing the problem. Growing up today is so different than it was for my generation, I was in the first generation of kids to be raised with television which definitely still is an addiction for a lot of people.
I struggle to comprehend why anyone would want to play these utterly garbage, ad ridden, pay to win, grindy mobile games. Is it about actually playing or just gambling with loot boxes. Personally i quit all mobile games years ago, but PC games have been getting progressively worse as well lately. Atleast there are still the good old games to play occasionally.
I don't think this will get effectively resolved because a lot of the youth use fake identification when registering for games (e.g. using ID card of their parents). Any age-based limitation will be pointless. The real big problem is with China's own video game publishing and censorship laws: all games must be reviewed by the government to make sure there isn't 'undesirable' political content. There is an annual quota to how many games get published each year ('slots'), so for the companies they need to make sure they use their 'slots' smartly. F2P is far better than pay-to-play because they earn more revenue over a longer life cycle, thus making the slot more efficient. Also because there is always a chance they don't get a 'slot', game developers usually work on several projects simultaneously for review, thus increasing the development cost (thus game development in China is actually similar if not more expensive than in developed nations). This system rewards games that maximize monetization rather than quality; it becomes a never-ending cycle of chasing retention rates. And eventually the industry just became too big to fail.
Ironically their censorship doesn't really care about sex and violence. China has produced the most popular shooter/MOBA games and their 'softcore erotic' games have mostly replaced Japanese hentai games around the world. Most things are allowed as long as the game doesn't speak bad about the government.
this made me sleepy
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welp, time for a quick match
the higher levels of game addiction in China might not be caused by culture or society as much as the video suggests.
I believe the problem is with the type of game played in China. Mobile gaming market are huge in China. and they are different from console and pc games. Mobile games can be accessed from anywhere at any time. whereas pc games and console games are not. Mobile games have lower entry requirements, most of them being free. whereas pc and console games can cost up to the price of several Big Mac meals.
So one way for China to solve the problem is to limit the mobile gaming market, and force gaming companies like Tencent move to higher end PC and console games.
This way Chinese gamers gets higher quality games as well as limiting their time spent on the game because most single player PC and console games have a set amount of replayability. and the purchasing price limits how many games a person can have.
Internet winning in disorder is called winning.
I think the CCP is good and I my Psychology is in error
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The symptom is not allowing to people to think
Schill
CCP IS EVIL corrupt
These Chinese kids when they are grown up make excellent recruits for high tech companies as well as for the militaries.
Physical world doesn’t work out, so try the virtual world
I knew a young boy I tried to help with his English. He had so little focus, compared to American children, and when I would see him at his mom's shop (she was divorced from the father in China) he would be playing video games all the time. (I think I was one among a string of those who tried to help him with his schoolwork.) He got sent back to his father and sent on to one of those "video boot camps" to "rehabilitate his video habits" but was killed by one of the guards. I of course didn't ask much but that was the information that was volunteered to me and I think they were suing the boot camp in Chinese courts. China has little understanding of mental health and this is a poorly investigated treatment field even in America. It was so heartbreaking to witness this terrible disease and the poor response China and South Korea have so far implemented.
Mobile game suck. Try switch, PS3, PS 4 and PS 5
Hey can you also cover the rampant cheats amongst chinese gamers especially in FPS genre? I heard that PC cafe’s in China have cheats already downloaded for users to use. Are there any news on that matter?
Addiction to video games is just a symptom. Video games is just a way to get that dopamine hit.
The real problem is that the user is needing to escape from reality. Because real life is too frustrating and isn't rewarding
When a musically obsessed teenager is obsessed with the piano. You won't call the person addicted to the piano. This is absurd.
None of this is a physiological addiction. As in none of this is like a chemical dependancy. Like cigarette smoking is.
Framing video games as an addiction is just shifting the blame to the children instead of parents getting their shit together and actually build healthy habits and rewarding lifestyles.
Asian helicopter tiger parenting. Not letting the kids have their own autonomy.
Or neglecting their kids, how often do we see toddlers given a phone to entertain themselves while the adults are busy on their phone at restaurants. Is it really the kid's fault if adequate parenting is socially acceptable as providing just food, shelter and rigid educational programs?
This channel is remarkably fair, balanced and quirky, which is uncommon these days with China's hardy politics. Even the comments refrain from engaging politics. I can see months from now your videos will shed a light to emerging Asian societies… and dare I say rally a new brand of democracy in the region.
This seems more opinionated than usual, the topic is interesting but I think it requires accurate data.
This is not an addiction, this is a new reality. Get used to it
I remember briefly encountering someone spouting a theory about lootboxes/in-game monetization resistances among gamers.
The theory suggest gamers that have history of actively playing classic non-online video games on older video console
before they have the chance to begin playing pay2win games,
such gamers would have increased resistance of not purchasing lootboxes with real money when they was psychologically tempted to do so within the online game.
I've found that no-fap really helped me with video game addiction. If I fap I just lose all motivation to do "constructive tasks" like homework, learning, clean the house, or even personal hygiene, and just wanted that next dopamine hit asap (video game or junk food)…there's a saying that if a guy can sleep with supermodels/pornstars anytime, he would be happy with living out of a cardboard box…
WHAT ABOUT YOUTUBE ADDICTION?
Think the Saudi price is also addicted to gaming and put a lot of investments in video games. Pls do not stereotype Chinese since you are one, are you addicted. It is a global issue not just China.
Think China should have field trips in the school curriculums so the young people appreciate they beautiful landscape instead of playing on the Internet or video game. Remember nimtados super Mario is equally addictive in the 80s except they are not as violent.
The new opium for the people. This time, it's also grown locally.
most games are shit, i don't even know how they can get addicted.
Except Anno series and paradox games!
Debt vs. Prophet.