New Game Rules on July 1

Recently, the General Office of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television issued the Notice on the Management of Mobile Game Publishing Services, which further planned the review of mobile game content, publishing declaration and application for game publication number.

The Notice mainly states the following points. First of all, all games are divided into domestic leisure and puzzle mobile games involving political, military, ethnic, religious and other themes, and no story or simple plot, such as elimination games, parkour games, flight games, chess and card games, puzzle solving games, sports games, music and dance games, and other types not mentioned above.

For the whole process, if it is the first one, the game company shall fill in the Application Form for Publishing Domestic Mobile Game Works 20 working days in advance, and submit this form and the copies of relevant licenses (in duplicate) to the local provincial publishing administrative department for review, and first submit it to the provincial administrative publishing administrative unit, After the preliminary review, it shall be submitted to the State Press, Optoelectronics and Publication Administration for review.

The SARFT shall make a decision on whether to approve within 10 working days, and then return it to the provincial department - game company. If it passes the review, the game company shall report the online publishing operation time, downloadable address Number of operating institutions, names of major operating institutions and whether they are open to recharge and other publishing operations.

In case of the latter, the corresponding application materials shall be handled and submitted in accordance with the Notice on Further Regulating the Application Materials for Publishing Internet Game Works and Electronic Game Publications Authorized by Overseas Copyright Owners.

In addition, upgrade works and new expansion films of mobile games that have been approved for publication, such as Journey 2 and My Name is MT3, still need to be resubmitted for review.

In fact, game operation has existed for a long time, mainly divided into two categories. One is the record of game operation, and the other is the record of game version number.

Game operation filing means that the Ministry of Culture requires to go to the Ministry of Culture for game operation filing within 30 days after the game goes online for operation. In addition to such filing, the General Administration of Press and Publication also requires companies operating online games to go to the Press and Publication Administration to make an Internet publishing filing for each product (online game electronic publication pre approval), which is often referred to as the game version number.

Before handling the game operation record and the game version number, the enterprise needs to have the ICP license, the qualification of the game copyright, and the qualification of the game copyright. Without the copyright of the game, the enterprise cannot handle the operation record and the game version number.

According to several game developers, with the implementation of the new rules for mobile games on July 1, when they submitted their products for approval according to the requirements of the regulations, they found that the reason why the game could not be approved was that the game used English. It is understood that according to the regulations, the standardized simplified Chinese characters will be used in the future games.

It is understood that the approval opinions do not allow "mission start", "missing complete", "GO", "Lucky", etc. to appear in their games. In addition, they are required not to use "new" as a prompt when the game is updated. In addition, traditional characters and violent words such as "kill" are also prohibited. Data shows that this is not the first time a similar situation has occurred. In April 2010, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) issued a notice to CCTV, requiring that foreign languages and abbreviations such as NBA, GDP, WTO, CPI should no longer be used in the host's oral broadcast, reporters' interviews and subtitles, which once triggered heated complaints from netizens. Today, however, this provision seems to exist in name only, and various English abbreviations still appear in our daily life.