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If you lived in China that wouldn't be as big of a problem as among other crackdowns the Chinese government has decided kids under 18 should only play 2 hours of video games a day, or 1 hour if under 12 and use a facial recognition system against a database of all children to identify them and track the amount of time they have been playing.

Kids however are trying to outsmart the system through using sleeping relatives to prove they are above 18.

Business insider

After officially implementing the facial recognition software for its most popular game, "Honour of Kings," the company reported that about half of the accounts linked to underage players have successfully completed the process.

Of the accounts that didn't complete the process, 98% failed or declined the facial recognition test. Those who fail to complete the facial recognition are automatically limited to just one hour of play.

Tencent reported that young players have been using a number of methods to try to get around the verification process. Some attempted to use photos of sleeping relatives, while others tried to impersonate their grandparents while talking to Tencent's customer service. The company said that some kids had even convinced their parents or other adults they know into calling customer service to try to remove the age-based time limit.

Kids in China are trying every trick in the book to beat the facial recognition software that puts a mandatory time limit on popular video games | Business Insider India

I should add for those that don't know who Tencent is, this isn't some tiny trial thing, Tencent is currently the largest video game producer in the world, not only producing some of China's top mobile games but owning a portion of many game studios so if they don't make it, they probably still profited off it. This led to an amusing bit where PUBG corp (Tencent is a minority owner of) sued Epic Games (which Tencent is a minority owner of) over assorted rights issues because it doesn't matter if you like Fortnite or Pubg better, Tencent gets a cut of both. So that they are implementing this facial recognition means there's going to be little push back by chinese corporations to scanning you into the system before allowing use.