Oh no.
The nightmare of game publishers, game corporations and gamers in Vietnam is finally coming!
Decree 147/2024/NĐ-CP of the Vietnamese government is about to take effect!
Now you will not be able to play games for hours like before, now, any player under 18 years old will only be able to play one game for no more than 60 minutes a day / cannot play more than 3 different games in a day, meaning you only have a maximum of 180 minutes for 3 games / day. Now the exchange and sale of virtual items in games is completely prohibited, games that are gambling in nature, no matter how small, will be BANNED, online game stores / games of foreign publishers / if they want to do business, they must set up servers in Vietnam and comply with Vietnamese law, public Internet centers are only allowed to open from 9am to 10pm instead of freely as before.
etc.
Typical cases of game stores / electronic games / game publishers / ... will be quite heavily affected after this decree takes effect on Christmas Day this year (December 25):
Game corporations:
Nintendo.
Sony.
etc.
Game stores:
Nintendo eShop.
PlayStation Store.
Steam (has been put on the scoreboard by the Vietnamese government since June).
etc...
Game developer:
111 Dots Studio/Garena: with the extremely popular video games Free Fire and Free Fire MAX.
VNG Game: the publisher of PUBG Mobile in Vietnam.
The Pokemon Company / Niantic, Inc / DeNA Co., Ltd: you can see clearly by looking at the three games Pokemon TCG Pocket, Pokemon Go and Pokemon Masters EX. Pokemon Masters EX will terminate its service in Vietnam on December 25, 2024, the day Decree 147/2024/NĐ-CP officially takes effect. Pokemon TCG Pocket cannot be released in Vietnam because it contains several elements that will violate Decree 147/2024/NĐ-CP:
1/ Cards, an element related to gambling.
2/ Virtual item exchange.
Pokemon GO:
not paying taxes + no server in Vietnam.
etc.
Can I quit being a Streamer at this point, everyone?
Edit 2: GameFAQs and GameSpot forums have been blocked from the Vietnamese Internet system since January this year.
The nightmare of game publishers, game corporations and gamers in Vietnam is finally coming!
Decree 147/2024/NĐ-CP of the Vietnamese government is about to take effect!
Now you will not be able to play games for hours like before, now, any player under 18 years old will only be able to play one game for no more than 60 minutes a day / cannot play more than 3 different games in a day, meaning you only have a maximum of 180 minutes for 3 games / day. Now the exchange and sale of virtual items in games is completely prohibited, games that are gambling in nature, no matter how small, will be BANNED, online game stores / games of foreign publishers / if they want to do business, they must set up servers in Vietnam and comply with Vietnamese law, public Internet centers are only allowed to open from 9am to 10pm instead of freely as before.
etc.
Typical cases of game stores / electronic games / game publishers / ... will be quite heavily affected after this decree takes effect on Christmas Day this year (December 25):
Game corporations:
Nintendo.
Sony.
etc.
Game stores:
Nintendo eShop.
PlayStation Store.
Steam (has been put on the scoreboard by the Vietnamese government since June).
etc...
Game developer:
111 Dots Studio/Garena: with the extremely popular video games Free Fire and Free Fire MAX.
VNG Game: the publisher of PUBG Mobile in Vietnam.
The Pokemon Company / Niantic, Inc / DeNA Co., Ltd: you can see clearly by looking at the three games Pokemon TCG Pocket, Pokemon Go and Pokemon Masters EX. Pokemon Masters EX will terminate its service in Vietnam on December 25, 2024, the day Decree 147/2024/NĐ-CP officially takes effect. Pokemon TCG Pocket cannot be released in Vietnam because it contains several elements that will violate Decree 147/2024/NĐ-CP:
1/ Cards, an element related to gambling.
2/ Virtual item exchange.
Pokemon GO:
not paying taxes + no server in Vietnam.
etc.
Can I quit being a Streamer at this point, everyone?
Edit 2: GameFAQs and GameSpot forums have been blocked from the Vietnamese Internet system since January this year.
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