Tell us about gaming in your country

[wangjingwanjia]

Yeah I think I commented about this before, perhaps in your old thread.

China

Pirated games for PC, PSP, PS3, and Wii. Korean/Chinese F2P games are the most popular for PC alongside with pirated western games. We have services like Steam that you can simply browse, download and play your (pirated)-games directly on, just like on Steam. It's so easy to play pirated games that the majority no doubt does it. And when it comes to console games only the X1 officially has a Chinese version and is sold in all the major stores and online webstores, but is very overpriced compared to the imported US-version you can find elsewhere. For the rest you have to visit the local markets or you could also buy them online, imported of course, and they always have one "hacked" version and one "original" to sell of each system. If you buy a "hacked" console in the local market you can get any games you want for free, and you can come back and change your games whevever you want, for free. So if I were to buy a hacked PS3 they could fill up my HDD with 10 games for example, and when I am bored of them I just go back and they put in XX number of new games. And they pretty much always have every game available for you to get, and in all versions, JP, HK, US and EU. But they also sell original games as well, and the libraries are pretty decent, and prices are matched with HK/US prices, so the price are fair in my opinion.

PC games are more difficult to buy original, I guess one reason is that Steam has grown so big but has no influence/market in China. It's pretty much impossible to buy PC games on discs if they are not pirated, and as I mentioned above, there are Chinese services that are better than Steam with a larger library of and all is free.