{"id":93544,"date":"2019-05-15T22:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/342727"},"modified":"2019-05-15T22:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T22:07:00","slug":"pubg-mobile-now-reminds-minors-to-take-breaks-from-playing-in-some-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/15\/pubg-mobile-now-reminds-minors-to-take-breaks-from-playing-in-some-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBG Mobile now reminds minors to take breaks from playing in some countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em>PUBG Mobile<\/em> update rolled out to select countries includes a \u201cgameplay management\u201d system that periodically reminds players under the age of 18 to step away from the game.<\/p>\n<p><em>PUBG Mobile<\/em> developer Tencent notes that the feature aims to encourage players to \u201cmake informed choices\u201d about how much time they spend in-game.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a move that comes after a handful of countries and cities made the call to ban <em>PUBG<\/em> entirely over addiction concerns in children, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/341359\/Nepal_lifts_shortlived_ban_on_PlayerUnknowns_Battlegrounds.php\">not all of those bans have stuck<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following the update, players under the age of 18 are prompted to \u201cacknowledge a gaming advisory\u201d upon booting the game, which then periodically reminds them to take regular breaks while playing.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/pubg-mobile-update-adds-new-feature-to-help-promot\/1100-6466904\/\">GameSpot<\/a>, the feature itself is only live in Indonesia, India, Nepal, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, but other yet-unannounced markets will eventually receive the feature as well. Both Nepal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/341063\/Iraq_parliament_votes_to_ban_Fortnite_and_Battlegrounds.php\">Iraq<\/a>&nbsp;have&nbsp;previously banned&nbsp;<em>PUBG<\/em> over the game&#8217;s pull with minors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs <em>PUBG Mobile<\/em> grows into one of the world&#8217;s most trending mobile games, it is devoted to providing a better gaming environment and being proactive in building a balanced and sustainable online gaming ecosystem,&#8221;&nbsp;reads a statement from Tencent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PUBG Mobile update rolled out to select countries includes a \u201cgameplay management\u201d system that periodically reminds players under the age of 18 to step away from the game. PUBG Mobile developer Tencent notes that the feature aims to encourage players to \u201cmake informed choices\u201d about how much time they spend in-game. It\u2019s a move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}