Tencent Launches New Anti-Addiction Feature for Minors

TapTechNews May 29th news, Tencent officially announced today that the Tencent Growth Guardian Platform has launched a new feature called One-Click Blocking Strangers. It is introduced that this function can reject strangers' team formation, private chat, etc. Currently, the Honor of Kings, Peace Elite, Yuanmeng Star, and QQ Speed have completed the deployment of protection functions.

Tencent stated that this function, together with self-account management, green mobile phone reporting, and one-click prohibition of playing and charging, jointly forms Tencent's anti-addiction four-piece set, which will provide parents with a toolbox for personalized anti-addiction management from multiple dimensions such as game duration, consumption, and social interaction.

So, how to use these functions? We first need to find the Tencent Growth Guardian mini-program and then bind the accounts of parents and children, so that we can control various functions.

TapTechNews reminds that the national regulation stipulates that minor accounts can only log in and experience the game between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays. Except for the above time periods, the system will automatically restrict account login.

If parents want to further manage their children's game behavior, they can enter the mini-program and bind their children's accounts. They can not only see the detailed records of the accounts playing the game but also achieve one-click prohibition of playing, charging, and blocking strangers.

Considering the practice of some children playing games through the parents' accounts, we can also manage our own accounts on the anti-addiction mini-program to limit duration, consumption, and prohibition of playing. According to Tencent's official introduction, as of the beginning of 2024, more than 9 million users have actively used the self-management function.

At this time, some parents will ask: There are also elders, relatives, and friends at home, and children will try every means to play games with their accounts, such as a 60-year-old grandma getting a pentakill after passing the facial recognition 17 times. What should we do in this case? This is when the green mobile phone reporting function is needed.

For example: You have relatives and friends ABCDEFG, as long a s you invite them to do the green mobile phone reporting, then their accounts will log in to the game during the non-minor playable time period, and it may trigger facial recognition and other verifications. If the verification is refused or fails, these accounts will be treated as minor accounts and restricted in game duration and consumption.

In response to the practice of children buying or renting other people's accounts for gaming, Tencent has also launched a black industry crackdown facial recognition strategy for specifically renting and selling accounts.

High-risk accounts suspected to be operated by the black and gray industries are identified, and the triggered account must complete the verification within the specified time on the game and device that first triggered the facial recognition, otherwise the account will be restricted.