The Verge:

Tencent’s hit mobile strategy game Honor of Kings is proving to be a little too popular in China. This weekend, the company announced plans to introduce new contracts in the game that would let kids and parents negotiate terms for playtime. “With the proposed feature, children can exchange their playing time by doing housework or reaching certain [academic] scores," Tencent chief executive Ma Huateng said at a press conference, as reported by The Wall Street Journal.

The original, paywalled WSJ link is here.

I know this sounds almost nightmarish to some, at the least Big Brother-ish, but honestly, this doesn’t sound that bad?

If grades are available in a digital database, making them accessible, and then allowing developers APIs to read them and allow mobile playtime based on the grades (maybe even incentivizing grades going up?) could be a really cool incentive for kids to do better.