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.
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.