While the government is rooting for professional gaming, it's tightening control over leisure ones, condemning game publishers like Tencent for "poisoning" juveniles with blockbuster titles.
He goes on to quote Schopenhauer who condemns games of all kinds and calls playing cards, "in the truest sense an expression of the wretched side of humanity".
That broke a third-wicket stand of 265 which may well have condemned this game to a desultory last day.
Not surprisingly, the article didn't sit well with Twitter's masses, who condemned the game maker's behavior as "despicable," "foolish" and according to some, simply "evil".
Politicians, military groups and the defense ministers in Britain, Canada and Australia had condemned the game for planning to allow consumers to compete as Taliban soldiers in online multiplayer matches against other human players portrayed as American soldiers.
What's funny, too, is that for years many fans, nonfans, cynics, bored observers have condemned the game for being too slow or the players for being too rapacious.
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, who will be attending the London protest at Downing Street on Wednesday evening, condemned "cowardly" Games sponsors, such as McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Visa, for not speaking out.
Just get politicians riled up so that they condemn the game, and fans would flock to the game in response.
With 13 wickets already down and a much better outlook for the next couple of days that should not condemn the game to a draw.
Michael Arrington, founder of the Techcrunch blog, has led the charge of the critics, condemning the game's developer, Zynga, for supposedly underhanded attempts to extract real money from users.
