Half of me is like “ugh, this is horrible”.
The other half of me is like “This is horrible, but given that they keep having people falling over dead from playing video games, there is something about Chinese culture that is having problems interfacing with computer games. This is not a good solution, the limits are way too low, needs to be more of an average thing, but there is an actual problem here that does kind of need addressed.”
I play “Puzzles and Dragons”, which started in Japan and is exceptionally popular across Asia. It has a lot of warnings about only playing for an hour a day, and it features a cool-down feature that won’t let you play more than a certain amount at a time. My wife plays a lot of games that were originally launched in the Asian markets and later translated to English and most of them incorporate a small-bursts kind of game mechanic that places emphasis on short play periods spread across the day.
