Counting the seven crimes of "national game", "Glory of the King" has been complained about tens of thousands of articles in 6 years, there are inducing addiction settings, primary school addiction social problems two, teenagers overcharge, anti-addiction mechanism is useless three, many times complained that the female character image is too exposed Dubbing edge soft pornography four, there is a large number of pornographic and vulgar content in the public chat channel Five, the wrong board has been repeatedly questioned six, tampering with the image of historical figures seven, frequently caught in the plagiarism controversy

■ Press: What kind of attitude should we take to look at the game?

On the morning of August 3, the Economic Information Daily pointed out in the article "'Spiritual Opium' Has Grown into Hundreds of Billions of Industries" (later deleted and changed the title to "Online Games Grow into Hundreds of Billions of Industries" Re-launched), pointed out that minors' Internet addiction is widespread, and the impact of online games on the healthy growth of minors cannot be underestimated, and named Tencent's "Glory of the King" as saying that "the punishment should be synchronized", the report quickly caused an uproar in the market.

Since its release in 2015, Glory of Kings has taken over young people's mobile phone screens at an unstoppable pace. From the data point of view, according to the list of the top ten games with the highest downloads and revenues in China in 2010-2019 released by App Annie, "Glory of the King" is firmly at the top of the list. At the end of 2020, Tencent announced that the number of daily active users of "Glory of Kings" exceeded 100 million.

However, when the user scale of a game is unprecedentedly large, and the economic value it creates is unprecedented, the problems it causes can easily become huge social problems. In recent years, under the fame, "Glory of Kings" has been controversial and negative.

On the black cat complaint platform, as of August 7, the number of complaints of "Glory of kings" has reached 12,920.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="125" >, there is an induced addiction setting, and the primary school addiction becomes a social problem</h1>

The controversy over "poisoning minors" has a long history.

In October 2015, the "Glory of Kings" mobile game was launched on the day, that is, it landed on the first place in the free list of the Apple app market. At the end of February 2016, the DAU (daily active users) of Honor of Kings reached 10 million, and 7 months later, the mobile game DAU rose to 40 million, and by the end of 2016, the DAU of Honor of Kings exceeded 50 million.

Tencent has taken advantage of its own advantages to limit the login method to two ways, "WeChat login" and "QQ login", and bind the game and social network to achieve viral spread.

In 2017, Yao Xiaoguang, vice president of Tencent and president of Tencent Interactive Entertainment Tianmei Studio Group, said in a keynote speech that as a social phenomenon game, king glory has become a new way of socializing. Young people anytime and anywhere about three or five friends to group to fight, at the same time, different from the general end game competitive game to play a round generally takes 45 minutes to 1 hour, "Glory of the King" will shorten a game time to the shortest only take about 15 minutes, adapt to the characteristics of modern people fragment time, but also greatly accelerate the pace of the game, with simplified operation, young people are very easy to quickly satisfy and pleasure.

Glory of Kings continues to attract a large number of new players, including elementary school students.

There has always been a saying on the Internet that "Glory of Kings" is a game "occupied by elementary school students". Xiao Jin, who is in the fifth grade in Shenzhen, told reporters, "There are quite a few people in our class, and the boys are a little more and prefer." The highest ranking member of her classmates is Xingyao, while the younger brother of her classmates is already the strongest king. In terms of the frequency of playing games, you usually need to go to school, you may not play for a day, or play for an hour or two, but now during the winter and summer vacations, sometimes a play is five or six hours. "I think it's addictive."

Tencent released about the proportion of people in each segment of the S22 season Data source: Tencent

Although Tencent denies that primary school students are the main force of "Glory of Kings", data released by its data platform "Tencent Browsing Index" shows that from 2016-12-25 to 2017-06-25, 4.8% of the more than 200 million players of "Glory of Kings" are under the age of 12 (there are nearly 10 million people), and 18.5% of 13-17 years old, which means that players under the age of 18 account for about 23.3% of the total. In other words, according to the most common 5V5 battle mode in the game, on average, every game has a teammate who is after 00, and every four games have a teammate who is a young user under the age of 12.

The highly addictive game setting makes King of Glory the world's most downloaded game, with a revenue of 6 billion yuan in the first quarter, the highest revenue game in the world. The number of registered users of the game has also exceeded 200 million, and a skin has sold 150 million in a day.

On the other hand, at the end of April 2017, a 17-year-old teenager in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, played the mobile game "Glory of the King" for 40 hours, inducing a cerebral infarction and almost dying; primary school students spent more than 40,000 yuan playing with the king with their mother's mobile phone; 11-year-old boys took advantage of their parents' absence to steal their parents' bank cards and mobile phones to play the glory of the king and spent 30,000 yuan in their family's savings; the top students jumped from the 4th floor because of the confiscation of their mobile phones, and the first thing after waking up was to ask for the king; the highly lethal "toothpick crossbow" was also popular because of the king. ...... The child confessed that "I can't control myself" and "I feel isolated when I don't play".

Controversy over the glory of kings set off a concentrated outburst.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="229" > second, teenagers overcharge, anti-addiction mechanism is useless</h1>

In the face of every social controversy over "minors addicted to games", "Glory of the King" has given a nearly "standard answer" solution every time, and claimed to be "the strictest", but so far has not really solved people's concerns about "underage protection" and anti-addiction.

In July 2017, the controversial Tencent ace game "Glory of the King" launched the most stringent anti-addiction system "three axes": first, limit the daily login time for minors, 1 hour for minors aged 12 and under 12 years old, and minors over 12 years old for 2 hours; second, upgrade the growth guard platform, parents can prohibit playing with one click; third, strengthen the real-name authentication system, and accounts without real-name authentication will not be able to enter the game.

All real-name certified "Glory of Kings" minor players will receive a notice when logging in: according to your account information, you have been identified as a minor, and your daily game time will be limited to 1 hour (or 1 to 2 hours) from now on.

But "the little ones don't have cell phones." XiaoWen, who is in the fourth grade of primary school in Shenzhen, told reporters that today's classmates are using their parents' mobile phones to play "Glory of the King", "there will be no restrictions." Xiao Jin told reporters that she was not clear about whether the limit was limited, but she heard her classmates say that when the system asked if it was a child, they would click the option that was not, because if they knew that the point was "yes", the time would be limited.

The real-name system can only ensure that the account owner is an adult, but it does not know whether the person who actually operates these accounts is not necessarily the person. Huge vulnerabilities make the anti-addiction mechanism useless. The above-mentioned news of teenagers overcharging Glory of Kings with their parents' money has been repeated to this day.

With the rise of doubts, in November 2019, the State Press and Publication Administration issued the Notice on Preventing Minors from Addicting to Online Games, requiring online game companies to explore and make tips suitable for users of different ages; relevant industry organizations should explore the implementation of specific standards and norms for age-appropriate prompts, and urge online game enterprises to implement the age-appropriate prompt system; online game enterprises should pay attention to analyzing the causes of minors' addiction and promptly modify the game content, functions or rules that cause addiction.

On June 17, 2020, Tencent once again claimed to release the strictest anti-addiction system in history, clarifying that it will increase face recognition verification on the basis of "limited play, limited charging, and curfew" for minor players who already have real names.

However, according to the China News Network, a user of "Glory of the King" said, "Only face recognition is needed once, and it will not be prompted again." ”

On the black cat complaint, after the release of the face recognition function, the complaints are still frequent. It is also common for minors to recharge Glory of Kings without their parents' knowledge. These recharge amounts range from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars.

In addition, many consumers have raised questions, saying that their children use their own WeChat id or ID card to register an account, but still recharge successfully.

In March this year, Tencent disclosed its 2020 annual results on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and for the first time disclosed the proportion of underage users in the game. According to the financial report, in the fourth quarter of 2020, online game revenue increased by 36% year-on-year, of which minors under the age of 18 accounted for 6.0% of the online game flow in China, of which the flow of minors under the age of 16 accounted for 3.2%.

However, some netizens questioned the above data, proposing that "how many game mobile phones are adult numbers" and "I don't believe it." If you don't publish the time ratio" "Krypton gold with your parents' account, how can you count it?" "How do you identify if you're a minor?"

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="230" > three, repeated complaints that the female character image is too exposed, and the voice is soft pornography</h1>

At the beginning of the game's inception, "Glory of Kings" targeted adults, and in 2016, the age-appropriate prompt of the game was "suitable for entertainment for players aged 18 or above".

In order to further expand the user base, over the past few years, Tencent has lowered the age-appropriate standard of the game again and again, and the current age-appropriate prompt is 12+, that is, players who are over 12 years old are suitable.

However, as early as 2018, "Glory of the King" was boycotted by parents because the image of the female characters in the tights and plump breasts was too exposed, even Lori was no exception. In addition to these character images, there are also suggestive words in the voice of various female characters in the game, such as: Wang Zhaojun: People are very material! To put out the fire for you!" Mi Yue's line is "Obey me, satisfy me, and finally become a part of me!" "Ah~ was played badly." ”

Subsequently, "Glory of Kings" made many modifications to the character images of many heroines, including "Ah Ke", "Angela" and "Unknown Fire Dance".

Recently, however, Glory of kings has once again been blamed for these issues. On June 1, adhering to the concept that "poor handling will destroy the next generation", the Beijing Juvenile Legal Aid and Research Center proposed the country's first civil public interest lawsuit for the protection of minors initiated by a social organization for "Glory of the King", and the complaint listed five acts of the game that "seriously infringed on the legitimate rights and interests of minors". One of the quality controls points to the female characters in the "Glory of Kings" game, most of whom are wearing low-cut costumes and miniskirts, deliberately exposing the female characters' breasts, buttocks and sexually suggestive sounds.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="231" >4. There is a lot of pornographic and vulgar content in public chat channels</h1>

In addition to the character design being too exposed, the reporter found that a large number of netizens on Weibo complained about being harassed by pornographic discourse in the game's public chat channel. In order to maintain the game environment, "Glory of the King" set up a reporting mechanism, but many netizens said that once it was involved in this aspect, there was no way to complain.

In addition, many netizens said that in the process of game matching, some gamers will encounter, hang up the whole process, and constantly send pornographic advertisements in the chat frame, but the report is unsuccessful.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="232" > five, the wrong board has been repeatedly questioned</h1>

On January 19, "Glory of Kings" released the hero Wu Zetian's classic skin "Nix Oracle", which was subsequently questioned by a large number of netizens for its false propaganda. According to the "January Red and Black List" released by the consumer complaint platform 315 Consumer Insurance on February 18, "Glory of the King" has caused collective complaints due to repeated hot spots.

The reporter learned that the collection of skins can be regarded as the most expensive and the most useful of all skins. If you want to redeem this type of skin, you need to spend money to draw the "Glory Crystal". According to the official lottery probability announced by "Glory of Kings", when the number of glory crystal draws reaches 361 times, the crystal will be out, but the probability of the first 360 draws of crystals is only 0.8%.

Players need to spend 6 yuan to get a lottery opportunity, spend 27 yuan can be drawn 5 times in a row, according to which many netizens have calculated that it takes 1300-2000 yuan to draw the glory crystal.

Specific to this incident, the hero Wu Zetian is almost the most expensive hero in "Glory of the King", and must use the lottery form to get it, and the lottery costs 800-2000 yuan.

The probability of the draw published on the official website of "Glory of Kings"

Many players are very moved by the skin promotional video released by the official, and after buying at a high price, they find that the goods are not right. The focus of the controversy is that the player believes that the details of the modeled head 'god ring' emphasized in the promotion are not presented in the end, and the sound effects matched by the skin are similar to the original skin sounds.

In the face of controversy, the official Weibo of "Glory of Kings" quickly responded that it would repair the actual effect of skins such as the Wu Zetian Classic Nix Oracle, but many players said that the response avoided the core problem of the "God Ring" special effect and failed to satisfy the players.

However, this is not the first time that "Glory of Kings" has been complained by players, in February 2019, the Valentine's Day skin released by "Glory of Kings" caused complaints from players due to the purchase method that did not distinguish between skins and special effects when advertising, and finally Tencent launched a separate refund policy for this skin.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="233" >6</h1>

King Glory has always claimed to "inherit Chinese culture", most of the "heroes" in the game are ancients, and the lines and skills of the "heroes" and the weapons equipped are based on the prototypes of well-known characters in traditional Chinese culture.

For example, Li Bai in the glory of the king carried a wine gourd and a long sword, shouting "The sword of the great river is coming from heaven", while the hero Zhuang Zhou rode the soul transformed into a butterfly and whispered,"The butterfly is me, I am the butterfly.".

Tencent also defines it as a "national cultural and creative product", but can it really carry this banner?

The reporter found that outside of Li Bai, Zhuang Zhou, Xiang Yu, and Guan Yu, it is almost difficult to see what the hero's design, lines and historical personality have anything to do with him, like Dianwei's shape and lines can only be seen as a steel warrior, while Bai Qi is a masked monster, and Liu Chan has become the image of a driving robot.

As early as 2017, because of the "People's Network Four Days three comments "Glory of the King"" questioning the role setting of the glory of the king distorted history has caused heated discussion, in the same year, "Guangming Daily" also published an article criticizing "Jing Ke is a woman, Li Baicheng assassin" in "Glory of the King", affecting the perception of history among teenagers.

In the face of mainstream public opinion, Tencent has had to make a series of rectifications, such as changing the name of "Jingke" in the game to "Ah Ke".

Today, the Beijing Juvenile Legal Aid and Research Center, in its lawsuit against Glory of kings, points out that in the game, Liu Bei, the founding emperor of the Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, was designed as a New York gangster godfather who relied on pornographic girls, Liu Bang became the blood-sucking Count Dracula, and Hua Mulan became a rabbit girl in revealing clothes, which are serious distortions of historical figures.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="235" >7, frequently involved in plagiarism controversy</h1>

Returning to the game itself, Glory of Kings has frequently been mired in plagiarism controversy since its birth.

In 2020, "Glory of the King" Yao- Meet the exclusive personality action of the divine deer skin "Deer Spirit Dance" was pointed out by users to copy the Yin and Yang Division "Goldfish Ji" dance. It is reported that On July 28, 2017, Foot Tai-hime created the dance for "Yin and Yang Division" "The Dream of Goldfish Hime".

In this regard, the operation team of King Glory issued a statement to apologize. According to the statement, after a serious investigation of the "Deer Spirit Dance" action design company, Animo Animation Design Studio, it was confirmed that its employees had borrowed from the original dance of @Foot Taiji in the process of producing the "Deer Spirit Dance" action.

However, this is not the first time that this national game has been accused of plagiarism, in the past, some netizens have pointed out that the elf king of the houyi in the game has been accused of copying the shape of the hobbit Lithrandil, the white shape is suspected of copying the Dark Soul's Aertrius, and Miyamoto Musashi is suspected of plagiarizing Hanzo.

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