It's amazing how much of an issue it even is opening up contact to the west but gamers know better than anyone if you give ideologues an inch they take a mile, the gatekeeping needs to happen sadly and I don't blame them in the slightest.
VPN's will get around that. The only effective way to gatekeep is to implement a national Intranet disconnected from the Internet (or at the very least, having private companies as intermediates like international phone calling with surveillance at the digital border) with zero ability for foreigners to get in. But it would also herald the end of a free and open Internet.
I mean, Korean games got to a point of tying accounts to the equivalent of SSNs, so there are options besides isolated networks that work pretty damn well.
On the one hand, good. They NEED to protect themselves from the west.
On the other hand, I used to love playing Millennium War Aigis. Great tower defense gacha game, way better than Arkknights. A shame.
It's amazing how much of an issue it even is opening up contact to the west but gamers know better than anyone if you give ideologues an inch they take a mile, the gatekeeping needs to happen sadly and I don't blame them in the slightest.
VPN's will get around that. The only effective way to gatekeep is to implement a national Intranet disconnected from the Internet (or at the very least, having private companies as intermediates like international phone calling with surveillance at the digital border) with zero ability for foreigners to get in. But it would also herald the end of a free and open Internet.
I mean, Korean games got to a point of tying accounts to the equivalent of SSNs, so there are options besides isolated networks that work pretty damn well.