>Valve has quietly rolled out an alpha version of its popular Steam client for use by Chinese citizens. The client comes with several censorious features common for software used by those residing in China.
>As tested and explained by WIN.gg, the Steam China client already features such control methods as warning players about excessive gaming times, preventively censoring profiles of Steam Friends, and limiting the hours when games can be played
Valve won.
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ah yes the old L4D2 program I use every couple months
fuck china
you mean vulva bent over to totalitarian chink regime
just imagine a nanny state regulating how much you can play
good
maybe the chinkoids will leave white mans steam alone now
Spoken like a true addict.
Xi Jinping is an enemy of gaming.
this is why tencent is bankrolling EGS btw
thank god, now we don't have to deal with chinks anymore
rise up gamers
Ban Chinks from first world servers
I hope they do the same for shithole countries, also remove every single shithole posts from the community hub.
Valve should use an AI to sort post languages, its not that hard to do
Finally. I hope they keep adding the superior chinese system to the other client as well.
DERETE THIS!
Does that mean that China is regionlocked now?
absolutely fucking based, China is healing western civilization little by little
That's interesting, but how does that concern me?
>not spending all day in house spamming praises to the goverment on social media and watching your social score go up
easy life
You're supposed to do that by default
After all, you live in the greatest country in the world
No, most of them use vpn to use normal Steam because normal Steam doesnt function behind the Great Firewall
Go a step farther and give the government control of it, so they can lock out people from their account after they put so much time into it during a day and punish people who have low social credit score and are locked out of videogames, at least on steam.
Other than the propagada parts this seems like a good idea
social security numbers on the right
aren't vpns illegal?
Remember you cannot launch a service like this without cooperating with the Chinese government directly. This isn't just a chinese company owning some Valve shares, this is Gabe having a direct relationship with CCP. And the more users chinkSteam has, the stronger that relationship will be until one day Steam is all pro-China.
I don't think Valve runs Steam China, or at least they didn't historically. I think it's another company.
Based Xi getting my life back on track hail China
Steam has a China market and a USA market. I don't think it means Valve necessarily has a relationship with the CCP, they're just following their law. However we all know when the ccp asks for something specific usually it's granted, there is history of companies giving CCP what they want such as specific information.
It's pretty ironic that a couple decades ago people thought if you just gave China economic freedom and a free market that social freedom would come with it eventually, that the CCP wouldn't be able to keep it up. But it's actually had the exact opposite effect. China has been able to give some free markets, open shit up and let people make money, have access to whatever it can buy. But the cost is you cannot criticize the government at all. This was true 4D chess by china.
Perfect World is the company that is in change of Steam China.
That's the whole reason Steam China even exists. Gabe noticed that there was a massive influx of Chinese users. It got to the point where Chinese overtook English as the dominant language.
So Gabe immediately took care of the issue with the whole 'steam china' initiative. Basically gives them their own separate version of steam they can use and lets them have most of the control over it.
Give it a few years
Good fuck chinks
That's how it works, to do business in China you need a CCP approved partner company that resides in China. So anyone doing business with chinks is basically in their pockets overseas
>Cheating in online games can lead to public shaming
kek what kind of dysotpian hellhole is this?
China isn't the only country doing that. Would not be surprised If it spread to the west too
>dystopian hellhole
That's the whole world before too long, I wager.
>pic
HOW??
The east and west will have different versions of it but yeah probably
Pafekuto warudo good
Tensento bad
Amairaito?
That's fucked up. It would be better if they just remind you to take a break every hour or so.
Valve drones will unironically defend this
chinkoid tranny mad lmao
Tencent is good though, just invests money and doesn't interfere..savior of video games really
From the pic I think the building literally had no foundation.
all chinks should be culled
anons, you do realise valve is a business, and profits are the key point of business yes?
if you have no problem with capitalism, you should have no problem with this, it's just gabe getting the chinese market for valve
>doesn't interfere
holy based
this shit will happen to us as well when western governments decide to go full 1984
you faggots can still help mitigate this by supporting development of free and open source video games
that way you will be able to play some good games after 10pm instead of being limited to just SuperTuxKart
China is the enemy of humanity. These inhuman, cruel, filthy, dishonorable parasites will corrupt and destroy anything they touch.