In its latest attempt to stop online gambling on its mainland, China will no longer allow poker and mahjong video games to be sold in its country. with a huge backlog caused the government to stop accepting new submissions.
As the government approval process resumed, they announced that those video games that were centered around gambling activities would no longer be granted licenses. The agency cited concerns that these video games could help facilitate illegal gambling rings.
The new law will “wipe out hundreds of small developers focused on this genre,”. The larger developers, who already have developed and been approved for this type of game in the past will still be able to sell their games, however.
“It won’t affect us much because we are early to the market and have accumulated a big collection of licenses,” a marketing manager at one of China’s biggest poker and mahjong games publishers.
This development will eliminate a huge chunk of China’s video game market.
