“But that simplicity, I guess, goes against the Tip Project’s business model, which is to selling those tip tickets to restaurants.”

Market research is something companies do on their own dime, on their own time. This is them pocketing that cash and hoisting the work onto the consumer. They can afford to do the legwork and cost needed but choose not to.

Ignorant outrage? Not seeing the forest from the trees? A lack of business common sense (or education)? All of the above? Pick one.

What’s this article’s point?

I don’t really understand what’s wrong with this. Part of any business planning is “how many units of this can we expect to sell?”

I’d be much more likely to “kickstart” something from a company like CDPR than random nobodies because they’re much less likely to run off with my money.  

It is fascinating to see everyone just collectively agree that this Article Is a Bad Take, Period.

So Kotaku’s just posting CCP apologia now?

My take? Don’t limit it. There’s better ways to approach gaming addicting. Limiting it just gives players another reason to circumvent the rules.

Wish we would ban video games here actually. Good for China. Someone needs to have a generation that is capable of functioning in society and doesn’t resort to hiding in video games for their entire lives. 

You just compared dumping nuclear waste to video gaming. There is no saving you. The CCP propaganda programming is too deep in you. 

I get the feeling you wrote this because your Chinese and you feel like everyone is attacking your country. Newsflash. Your country is flawed. Please we have enough nationalistic crap already. 

Accusing people for making blanket generalization for China because “there are all types of people in the country” while supporting China government for making blanket generalization of gaming, their people is hypocritical.

“The restrictions imposed on players don’t come from a law; it’s an industry regulation recently passed by the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA). As a parallel example: Imagine that you’re an American company that wants to dump radioactive waste into a lake, and the Environmental Protection Agency…

I am going to say it: This article IS a different type of bad take on the situation.

The history of china and still to this day is about contribution, culture and control. This is not an oversimplification, its a succinct way to describe a governmental system that believes in conformity for the betterment of all, at all costs. Yet here you are talking about “industry regulation” like it is not tied to…

If the console ban led to the rise of F2P in the first place, it sounds like maybe regulation just made things worse, yeah?

So basically the good take about this gaming restriction is the bad take but with extra steps. Got it.

Because the bad take is that the chinese government acts in mostly bad, regularly even scary ways, which is what this restriction is the result of. They made so many horrible decisions, which some parts from seeped…

What can you do?  Authoritarian governments are going to flex that authority.

So a combination of the usual regulatory trifecta: