About shut-down policy

The bad news for gamers is coming. Shut-down policy has accepted in our country. According to this policy, teenagers couldn’t play the game from AM 12 to AM 6. It has objects that prevent and reduce the addicted rate. There are very many addicted gamers in Korea. Most of people has addicted by online games such as MMORPG, FPS, Arcade, and so on. Government announced the assign of shut-down for MMORPG part because of its special figure to growth their own character. Many people expect to addicted rate will decrease by this policy.

But there are two limits for their goal. First, it’s easy to avoid the shut-down program. Teenagers could use their parent’s social security number. There is only checking system whether is it right or not between the name and social security number. Couldn’t figure out who is playing with the social security number.

Second, the policy has risen from civic groups and government, not game companies. The companies don’t like this policy for their profit. Without morals, they may don’t care whether teenagers addicted by game or not. Actually NC soft, the biggest online game company in Korea, changed their join policy. They announced to eliminate a type place to social security number, so could log-in without the resident registration number.

Nevertheless, the shut-down program is good choice. Although it couldn’t prevent from the root, I could see many people recognize that addicted computer game is bad.