China banned the global version of Steam - the barrier came to Christmas Eve

As users report from China, the global version of Steam from China is no longer able to reach, although the Chinese are crazy about PC gaming. The lock came on the evening of 24.12. Users in English-speaking forums do not respond verily to solidarity: in general, it is said that it is surprised why that took that long.

Where does the message come from? The message appeared on the night from Friday to Saturday. They spread across forums like Reset era, Reddit or the well-known Datamyne Santa Ricky on Twitter.

Approximately at 21:00 on Christmas Eve of German time, on 24.12., Should the website domain Steam in China be blocked. This means that the International Site Steam is no longer simply reaching from China with all its subfunctions.

Further details on the message, but we do not know any clear statements of the Communist Party, but people only speculate what could be behind.

China has its own version of Steam, but with less than 100 games

What could be done? In forums, it is believed that the spell of Global Steam is a logical consequence of that China has since February 2021 his own version of Steam, but hardly who uses, because there are only 98 Games gives, instead of 60,000 as in the international version.

The Chinese government has decided in recent years to a rigid course against online gaming, especially mobile games have been taken into sight. Officially, one fears for the eyesight of children and adolescents, because in China, myopia ranges because children stare like mistakes.

In recent years, there were a spell over months, so no new games were allowed to appear, and strong season restrictions for children and adolescents, which associated with face recognition software.

In general, China has the industry in a strong grip, huge group like Tencent have close connections to the party, but fear every press article in partly newspapers in which online gaming has ever been described as digital opium.

The rushing times when Chinese corporations in gold rush gains seemed to be over for several years now — now balanced on a thin line.

How is that discussed? Crazy solidarity does not exist in English-speaking forums. There are about 3 opinions:

Some say, I wonder why that did not happen earlier — In essence, China is all trusting, which goes towards censorship and restriction. Others say, Oh, that means that it is in CS: Go now less cheaters and I can finally play PUBG again — but Chinese players are often missing as chatters. Third say: They will probably be just using VPN, and we will hardly notice something

So really surprised, no one seems to be anyone.

How do you play in China?

The big difference to the West: In China, consoles like PlayStation 4/5 or Xbox play virtually no role PC gaming usually does not take place at home, but in public internet cafés. There are multiplayer online games to match: some who also know us, such as Lol, Overwatch or CS: Go, but also many own titles like Crossfire, Dungeon Fighter Online or Journey to the West For many years, mobile gaming in China is in trend: a game like Honor of Kings, a kind of mobile lol, has incredibly many players and players, because it is closely associated with huge social media platforms

With the phenomenon why Chinese players are considered a cheater, we are dealing with Mango here:

Why do so many pub cheaters come from China?