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[h=1]Father Hires In-Game “Hitmen” To Deter Son From Playing[/h] Kotaku
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Sick and tired of his son playing video games and not listening to him, a father in China decided to take matters into his own hands... well, sort of. Instead of sending his son off to addiction camp or stripping him of internet and gaming rights, Mr. Feng (冯先生) chose to hire an online "hitman" to school his son.
Feng's 23 year-old son, "Xiao Feng" (小冯) started playing video games in high school. Through his years of playing various online games, he supposedly thought himself a master of Chinese online role playing games. According to his father, Xiao Feng had terrible grades in school because of his gaming habit; he couldn't even land a job. He, however, says he simply couldn't find any work that he liked. Feng was annoyed that his son couldn't even tough it out for three months at a software development company.
Unhappy with his son not finding a job, Feng decided to hire players in his son's favorite online games to hunt down Xiao Feng. It is unknown where or how Feng found the in-game assassins—every one of the players he hired were stronger and higher leveled than Xiao Feng. Feng's idea was that his son would get bored of playing games if he was killed every time he logged on, and that he would start putting more effort into getting a job.

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I would do that if I knew anyone who played them, just for amusement value...
 

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You do know people who play such games, Don :D. I play LOTRO and Gran plays WoW :). I don't know how they compare to whatever the Chinese copyright-free-zone play mind you.

By the way, in the comments below the linked article, there is a suggestion that it has been badly translated, either by accident or design - not reading Chinese I can't really say ... maybe Xue can help us?
 

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