| Zippy6 said: The global version of steam has now been banned in China, with the chinese specific version releasing this was only a matter of time. The Chinese version of steam only had 53 games when it launched in February this year, apparently it has 68 games now. Considering China is the 2nd biggest country for steam with reportedly a quarter of it's active userbase coming from the country this could be very damaging for Steam, if a quarter of their users can now only access 1% of their product. Maybe there are ways to get around the block but I don't know how many of the "more than 30 million" active users will be willing to do that. |
It just means that Valve is going to have to work on keeping the games flowing through on China's end, or the devs to translate faster.
I'm not really phased by it all that much, mostly because I was never fond of seeing Steam forums being crammed full of Russian/Chinese language only threads, with some broken English Chinese threads, demanding for each dev to make a Chinese translation, which got old real fast.
I do wish for Steam to either have a built in translator (like Google does for Chrome), or for the languages to be separated, because boy do I hate looking for guides in Steam forums and finding that one obscure game that I wanna fix, only for the guide topics to all be in Russian.
Also, if Steam global is blocked in China, what about EGS?. Actually, come to think of it, what about all the other clients out there? (I've heard next to nothing about the other PC clients in China, news or forums).
Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.
