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Mobile gaming in Japan
日本的手機游戲業
Gacha? Gotcha!
嘎查？彈無虛發！
Bureaucrats clamp down on a tech billionaire
手機游戲技術巨頭遭到政府打壓
NOT again.
不要再重復了。
Just when another tousle-haired Japanese entrepreneur hoped it was safe to make a billion or two,
當另一個頭發散亂的日本企業家希望能安全地創造出十億，二十億的價值，
along come the forces of law and order threatening to throw the rule book at him:
伴隨而來的是法律與秩序的勢力，威脅著要把規則手冊扔給他：
in this case, the Act Against Unjustified Premiums and Misleading Representations.
在這件事上，他違反了不合理的額外費用和誤導人的陳述。
That, at least, is how some people viewed news this week that the Consumer Affairs Agency was investigating a feature,
至少，一些人把這件事視為了這周的新聞，日本消費者廳正在調查一類以稱為完整的嘎查為特色的游戲至少，一
popular on Japan’s ubiquitous mobile-phone games, called a complete gacha, in which players collect sets of randomly generated tokens to swap for in-game rewards.
即一類玩家收集隨機產生的一套套游戲幣，去交換虛擬世界里面的獎品，在日本的手機游戲中普遍存在的游戲。
Such games have made fortunes for several internet start-ups.
這樣的游戲使幾個新興的網絡公司積累了大量財富。
Agency officials, however, have expressed worries that complete gacha may be a form of gambling,which can cause children and adults to splurge beyond their means.
然而，機構官員，都對此表示擔憂，因為完整的嘎查，可能是一種賭博的形式，這會導致兒童和成年人變揮霍，最終無力支付高昂的游戲費用。
They questioned its legality.
他們質疑這游戲模式的合法性。
The retribution was swift.
市場對此的回應迅速。
In three days the value of GREE, whose 35-year-old owner, Yoshikazu Tanaka, has been called the youngest self-made billionaire after Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, plunged by a third.
在三天內社交網站Gree的市值驟減了三分之一，公司創始人35歲的田中良和，曾被稱為除了臉譜的馬克扎克伯格之外，最年輕的白手起家的億萬富翁。
DeNA, another social-games site, lost 22%.
DeNA，另一家社交游戲網站，損失也達到了22%。
To Yoshito Hori, a venture capitalist and former GREE backer, the news recalled a pattern of crackdowns on alleged abuses by start-ups in recent years that have discouraged the Japanese from setting up new businesses.
崛義人，一名風險投資家和前GREE的投資者，這條新聞讓他回想起最近幾年政府打壓新晉企業的種種措施，已經使日本人喪失了開創新商業的勇氣。
He urged the government to seek a harmonious solution that protected both consumers and entrepreneurs:
他敦促政府尋找一個協調的解決方案，保護消費者以及企業家。
Killing GREE or DeNA is like killing Sony or Matsushita when they were coming up after the war, he said.
他說，毀掉GREE或者DeNA，就像毀掉二戰后崛起的索尼和松下電器那樣嚴重。
On May 9th GREE and DeNA gave ground.
5月9號，GREE和DeNA都作出了讓步。
GREE said it would stop the release of all new complete gacha games and phase out existing ones.
GREE說他們將會停止發布全部新版完整的gacha游戲，并且逐步取消目前還存在的嘎查游戲。
DeNA said it would also stop the practice.
DeNA也說，他們將停止這類游戲上市。
Mr Hori said he expected they might be prepared to pay back anyone who had overspent.
崛義人說，他希望兩間公司能準備資金還給那些曾經超支了的人。
It was not clear, though, whether the authorities would let the matter rest there.
可是，當權者是否將聽任這事情自由發展下去，目前還不清楚。
