VideoGamer.com's Emily Gera writes: "Korea's gaming industry is a monster. It has enough life to fuel both its multi-billion dollar business and an e-sports community that churns out professional video game players who become celebrities in their own right. The country is a hotbed for gaming cafes, which have swept across the nation with a Starbucks-like intensity. This is a nation hosting an industry that's grown so big, and so socially-acceptable, that it makes the West seem like it's stuck in a rural Stone Age.
But now there's something going on in Seoul. Back in April, Korea introduced legislation that put a curfew on online games. Thanks to this new Cinderella Law, between midnight and 6am all users under the age of 16 are locked out of online titles.
The Cinderella Law is the brainchild policy of Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, along with the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MGEF). The curfew is part of a government-led legislation built to curb video game addiction in the country."
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EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
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I wonder how they would react if they were "addicted" to Nascar, Football, fishing, or golfing?
Nop because I couldn't live in a country that doesn't respect individual freedom.
No, i play when i want, not when someone tells me too.
As we have learned from Assassin's Creed, controlling people is never the answer. You have to let people do what they want, whether it is bad for themselves or not.
hmm... midnight to 6am is quite reasonable for a pointless law, I can remember rarely staying up later than about 1 or 2am when I was under 16 anyway.
My question is, how do they know that the player is under 16? There isn't a reliable way to enforce that stupid law.
And what is this video game "addiction" that idiots keep mentioning, there is no such thing. Simply an entertainment addiction, which makes total sense and should be fully allowed. Anybody can spend too much time with anything that entertains them, and that would cause the same exact problems that being "addicted" to video games would.