{"id":263,"date":"2005-06-25T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-25T16:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=263"},"modified":"2024-06-12T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T23:12:10","slug":"ministries-of-videochina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Ministries of VideoChina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News online has an informative <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4124530.stm\">article<\/a> on the amazing growth of online gaming in China. Interesting to note the government&#8217;s involvement: three separate ministries oversee the videogame industry. Of course there was no mention of virtual worlds. So maybe they could see fit to add another &#8220;ministry&#8221; &#8211; if just to help this poor virtual world resident posting on one official forum: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I Always Play Slingo, I Seen 10k Pot In Xxlodge Club, And Last Night Always From 3k-10k Changing The Pot, I Think The Players Are Mad, But To A Pity , I Was So Bad Luck Played All Night Didn&#8217;t Win Any , When I Near Ly Win I Met Devils,<br \/>\nSo I Think, We Need Make A Script To Keep Us From Devils<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I&#8217;ll update this when a &#8220;Soul-Saving Script&#8221; turns up in the virtual marketplace. Any day now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News online has an informative article on the amazing growth of online gaming in China. Interesting to note the government&#8217;s involvement: three separate ministries oversee the videogame industry. Of course there was no mention of virtual worlds. So maybe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=263\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[121,116],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retransmit","tag-videogames","tag-virtualworlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}