IndiaTech Urges MeitY To Come Up With Code For Online Gaming

It has suggested AI-based interventions to monitor and reduce potential addictions and cut offs for money spends and wins

The industry body has classified online games in eight different categories

IndiaTech said that mere involvement of money does not make any game into an addictive or gambling genre

IndiaTech has written to the Ministry of Electronics and IT suggesting framing of a ‘Code for Responsible Online Gaming’.

In the last week, the industry body representing India’s consumer internet startups, unicorns and investors wrote two letters to the ministry.

It has suggested that the code for online gaming should comprise policies that govern age or genre based classifications, AI based interventions to monitor and reduce potential addictions and cut offs for money spends and wins. It has also suggested that the guidelines should include no bots policy to be fair to players, cultural sensitivities among others.

Noting that banning is not a solution, IndiaTech said it is important for the government and industry to engage more along with stakeholders from civil society and mental health experts and work towards developing and adhering to a ‘Code for Responsible Online Gaming (CROG)’. While most online gaming companies already have some form of practice in place, it is important to standardise the same, it said.

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