Weird 2010's gamer nationalism meets china bad.
"Oh no, kids won't be able to use games to escape reality now" — Good, have them play outside or read a book or something.
"Horrible, I couldn't live without games" — Yes, this law is attempting to help people before they become like you.
"New generations won't grow up to be gamers now" — How will society survive!
"It's about controlling freedom of thought" — Ah, yes, this will stop the great dialogue had by fourteen-year-olds in LoL game chats.
Yeah, everyone thinks they're being banned from Planescape Torment: the MMO. But it's really just some lootbox infested hellscape that uses marketing techniques that literally hack minds.
This, everyone is projecting themselves into believing chinese children won't be able to live their beatiful child fantasy of playing final fantasy X while their mom makes kool aid or whatever when online gaming currently is one step removed from actual fucking casinos which is indescribably evil, and I still think China is being too tepid here.