>The second apparent change that all profile information is being sanitized by the Steam client. Profile pictures are replaced with the default Steam question mark, and all profile names are instead translated into Steam's proprietary Steam ID numbering system.
>It is likely that these Steam Community features must be approved individually by a Chinese entity, likely a government agency, before they are cleared to be displayed. That means that Steam China might be a sea of question marks for some time after release as the Chinese government sorts through and approves profile pictures and display names.
>Chinese guidelines prevent gaming between certain hours for individuals below a certain age. When attempting to start CS:GO, however, the current version of the Steam China client only performed one check. Steam ran a command-line argument when the "Play Now" button was clicked, calling for a check of Steam's Duration Control system, Valve's implementation of China's November guidelines on gaming. The argument returned the answer "Night" to the client, preventing Steam from opening Counter-Strike. A similar issue was observed with Dota 2.
Epic has never sold its soul to China like Valve just did, yikes.
>chinks get their own client >we don't have to suffer them anymore How is this a bad thing?
Oliver Wilson
Fuck China. >Epic has never sold its soul to China Shit bait.
Kevin Ramirez
This
Thats the best outcome really. Chinks get their own client and everyone else can enjoy videogames again
Logan Ross
Anti shill post:
[separating China from the West] is 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.
If most of the western world weren't such a goddamn spineless pussies we could have started boycotting any company that works with China, forcing them to choose between China or whole of Europe and USA. and no, they wouldn't pick China because there's more money in the west.
Nathaniel Wilson
>Epic has never sold its soul to China like Valve just did, yikes. Are you stupid? Preventing Chinese people from using the main client and playing with other players isn't benefit to China at all.
Jeremiah Rivera
B-BUT EPIC!
Ayden Howard
All of our video games and movies will continue to pander to them
Joseph Richardson
oh noo now we don't have to play games with cheaters anymore oh nooooo
Now they just need to make it so that the Chinese can't use regular Steam and we'll be all set. The Chinese are cancer and I would gladly pay to not have to be on the same servers as them.
Lucas Brooks
Giant fucking meme, go back to your containment already.
Jose Wright
And two out of 5 board members, enough to veto nearly anything. Also tencent can nominate their own board members and all it takes is a small bribe (or threat) on one of the other 3, and they have a majority.
Ryan Sanders
it reads like there will just be an update that changes their client to the china client and they get firewalled inside bug country.
Charles Nguyen
Base gaben putting bugmen in containment clients.
Caleb Allen
>we don't have to suffer them anymore It's my understanding that right now they're using VPNs to access Steam (no idea how it bypasses DPI aka Great Chinese Firewall, I'm not tech savvy enough), what stops them from continuing to use VPNs if the new client sucks?
> hey, citizen #37992749595719 how about a game in a party
Chase Nelson
Even worse in Sweden where they sacrifice people.
Juan Campbell
>Yellow Menace Floods Steam >Gabe makes a Bugman Only Steam >Gets Winnie The Pooh on board >Yellow Menace is gone from Na and EU servers of Steam >Only got to deal with HUEHUE and Vodkas now Based Gabe.
Justin Lee
Sweeney stated that he is the owner of the company and does what he wants. He basically is the board.
John Miller
Cmon man. It's only 40% shares. They clearly have no influence or control over the company. Them crawling your harddrive is just fine and I'm sure they didn't take any other data when they decided they needed to have a cover story to help you bring your steam friends over to the epic client.
Nicholas Peterson
My guess is that now that the cancer communist party have their own client to control their bugmen, they will fix whatever beach allowed chinks to connect to valve to begin with.
Adam Myers
How is separating people from chinks is a bad thing?
Henry Gray
chink gaymer uprising when
Michael Scott
>Sweeney stated that he is the owner of the company and does what he wants. He basically is the board. Imagine being retarded to actually believe what tim says. This sentence, word by word, was written for him by the Chinese pr team.
Easton Reed
>valve has quietly released
Why are there 3 fucking threads with the exact same wording in the OP? Are the shills forbidden from deviating from their script?
Andrew Rivera
>chinks get their own client
Did that frown ever turn upside down fast
Bentley Peterson
Lmao I should have read past your first sentence before replying.
