I've never been to Vietnam, but it's now in the running for Worst Country Ever. Why? Gaming at night has been banned!
The country's Ministry of Information and Communication is now working to stop nighttime online gaming. They are doing this with the hopes that it will "mitigate the side effects of online games." Right.
The lockdown is coming soon: Internet service providers have been asked to block all online gaming daily from 10 p.m. to 8 a.m by March 3rd. Those ISPs and gaming locations that do not comply will have their services shut off by the government. Serious business.
This is going to suck for a lot of people. Gamespot says that 23 million people of Vietnam use the internet. My guess? People are just going to game more during the day.
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6:00 AM on 02.23.2011 | 
If i was Obama right now i would consider this a serious breach of human rights and invade/liberate that shit immediately!
Fuck "peace in the middle east" or "the whole Korea problem" or "Whatever the beef is with Iran" - THIS shit must be stopped FOR HUMANITY!
for Humanity AND for america to get their rematch for 'Nam in Black Ops.
/tasteless :3
America, I think it's time to invade them again to free them from such an oppressive regime.
That would make me either a sad, or a possibly suicidal panda.
@Epic - that Rematch needs to happen, for realz.
Way to go out of touch selective prohibitions!
Imagine the effects!
Well thats just bullshit, you COULD stop playing you chose not to.
Graham norton's pubes.
It's just... I don't even know what to say. This is fucking bullshit. If people can't take care of their health by themselves, nor will government. Also, if they pay for something, they should be able to use it fully.
If this will somehow spread, we'll be in deep trouble. The fuck is this.
Previously on 24..
I live in Vietnam.
And for more information , one of the the head of IT in Ho Chi Minh city ( one of the biggest city in Vietnam ) can't even pronounce a word "Cyber" in "World Cyber Games" ( it was 3 years ago )
But what exactly is blocked? Only online gaming? It's not that there are no proxies out there. And I wonder what that means for starcraft.
I think since home user can still use their internet , so it won't effect much to Starcraft 2 player ( Starcraft:BW is almost dead or dead already in Vietnam )
You know, blocking every form of connection to the internet unless it's 1am. Because they're shite.
Whatever. Both of those will do.
Especially considering I'm usually up at night anyway -_- so this would just be horrible
but, they can still play offline games at night, right? just not online?
*Tongue pushes through cheek tissue*
i game mostly at night(playing Xenosaga Episode III :P)
...I mean MMO dens then thats fine. But restricting people in the privacy of their homes? Them's be fightin' words motherfucker! That would be IT in the US, I don't get home from work til 1AM! No one takes my gaming from me, I use that to decompress before bed!
greaaaaaaat.
to be fair, its only online gaming, so I can just rape at melee til 8 am :D