TENCENT（腾讯）announced yesterday that it will limit the daily time for youngsters to play its popular King of Glory（王者荣耀）game after parents and schools in Shanghai and other areas thought their kids spent too much time playing it.
From tomorrow, children younger than 12 will only be allowed to play the game for no more than one hour a day, and after 9 p. m. , they can't log into（登入）it, said Tencent. Teenagers older than 12 will be able to play no more than two hours a day. The game system will remind players the time they have been playing and young players will be forced to log out when the time is up. Tencent thought these were the most strict ways in China to stop addiction（上瘾）and the company expected parents didn't need to worry about their kids as before.
There have been several cases reported that children had spent too much money-as well as time-on King of Glory, so did teenagers. Tencent said it will add a new function（功能）to help parents to control children using its games.
Since February, parents can receive messages when children log in and spend money on the game after they connect children's game accounts（账号）with their mobile phone numbers. Now, parents can connect phones or computers that their children use to play games, so that they can always keep an eye on the children even if they have several game accounts, Tencent said. It added the ways covered its 200 games, and about 700,000 accounts have been connected to parents' phone numbers.
Song Zhe, a father of a Shanghai high school student, welcomed the ways but was not sure if they would be useful. "I like the new system, but I'm not sure if it is useful, after all, our kids are clever. " he said.
