Translated by Coldtaco
Edited by Aelryinth
Were Chinese card games fun?
The ansswer differed from person to person, as everyone had different tastes.
Many said that card games were crude, monotonous, and repetitive, all of which are true.
But... they were quite profitable!
Being profitable meant the players approved of it.
Why did players approve of it? Because they thought it was fun!
This was a very weird phenomena, as players complained while forking money out of their pockets.
Why were card games so profitable? Which part of the game made it fun?
This was an open-ended question. If Chen Mo were to write a thesis on the core of card games, it would probably be tens of thousands of words long.
In simpler words, the pleasure of playing card games came from three distinct areas.
