The facial recognition is in order to make sure the user of the game corresponds to the ID they logged in with. It still only applies to online videogames.
Mobile games, actually. No specific word of whether they have to be online games (whose definition is pretty vague these days - singleplayer games like Diablo III require a login and internet connection to play singleplayer).
> The new functions will initially be used on around 60 mobile games, including the massively popular "Honor of Kings" multiplayer battle game, which boasts over 100 million daily users.
If you read the article, you will see that the ID is specifically to link users to the already existing player ID verification system. That system applies only to online games. Purely single player games are exempted from the ID system, so the facial recognition system is not useful.
Diablo III is a bad example in that it's actually an online multiplayer game now. It didn't use to be, but I think it was planned all along.
Beyond that if it means kids won't play online-only single player games with all of the economic impacts that has on these games I think that's a very different thing. But that's not actually the case rn.
> Diablo III is a bad example in that it's actually an online multiplayer game now. It didn't use to be, but I think it was planned all along.
Multiplayer has always been included with D3. And singleplayer mode still exists. But, let me add a different examples.
Doom Eternal's campaign can be played offline, but only after you've signed into your account.
Genshin Impact is online only, even though you can play it alone.
AFK Arena, a mobile singleplayer-only game, requires you to be online.
Crash Bandicoot 4, a singleplayer-only game, requires you to be online.
> That system applies only to online games.
I don't know a lot about the system, so you are likely right. But I have to ask, is there anything that restricts it to multiplayer online games only - aside from the current policy?
