Valve's Chinese partner Perfect World will help bring Steam to the
Chinese market. No launch date has yet been announced, and Valve
promises that "no changes are planned for Steam's existing worldwide
operations and services" as a result of the news.
Steam China will provide Chinese gamers and developers with a new way
to access Steam's selection of games and entertainment. The move
represents an extension of the partnership between Valve and Perfect
World that began in 2012, when Perfect World's subsidiaries obtained the
licence to operate Dota 2, and later Counter-Strike: Global Offensive,
in China.
Robert H. Xiao, Perfect World's CEO, says the company will introduce
more games to China through Steam China, "providing quality content and
improving the experience for both gamers and developers."
Source: PCGamesN
Don't see anything wrong with that
hey at least it isnt nexon
Aren't there already plenty of Chinese gamers and devs on Steam?
Anything to combat Tencent's grip is a plus in my book
Doesn't Steam already partially exist in China? IIRC, they have a very stripped down version of Steam for Dota 2 purposes
That's gonna fix the Pubg problem. But what about Russian Dota?
What about it?
'The store is accessible in the country, but access to the Steam Community, including forums, user profiles, and inventories, is completely blocked, meaning that anything requiring interaction with other users isn't going to work.' - PCGamer on the situation before this announcement.
You guys should of watched Valve News Networks reaction too the whole thing. Got hyped for some "leak" and ended up getting the press email, and started reading it too the livestream. You could see the guys face go from possible joy to sinking depression in under a few seconds flat.
My Chinese friend on Steam expects that this is going to forcefully replace the global Steam client, within China, and all outside Valve services'll be blocked, so he'll need to use his VPN just to log into Steam as well as browse unrestricted.
I bet it must be hard being the Valve developer working on this with the Chinese government to block and censor certain parts.
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