How Chinese Game Developers Get People Hooked on Online Games

How Chinese Game Developers Get People Hooked on Online Games
A young player practices outside a shopping mall, where a battle match of mobile game Honor of Kings is held in Tianjin, China on Oct. 1, 2017. Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images
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Online games are known as “electronic drugs” in China. Many Chinese, including young children, have become addicted, spending large sums of money on playing games and, in extreme cases, becoming seriously injured as a result of game-binging for long periods.

Chinese gaming companies are using deceitful methods, such as hiring fake players, to manipulate users into spending more and more money to purchase more and more expensive items within the games.