Steam is now available in China, and if you think this would give Chinese gamers instant access to the weird, wonderful, and sometimes deeply offensive depths of the service catalog, well, haha, of course not.
At the time of publishing this custom version, the localized version of the Valve showcase only had 53 games available, with the main ones Counter-Strike i DOTA 2. This is. If you visit the store and click “all games,” you can see it all in one screenshot.
Why the discrepancy? How PC player report, is because, to get a release in an official Chinese showcase, it must have been the games certified by the government, and from the international majority games would fail in this process (both for cultural and content reasons, like anything else)), which explains the deployment (for reference, there are more 20,000 items available on Steam for us).
Oh, and there are no forums or other community functions either, meaning there is no central place to claim mistakes and mistakes. although for some reason Steam user reviews are excluded from this:
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If you want to go there and check it out, marveling at the scarcity of it all or just wanting to see what our own Steam was like in 2008, it’s accessible to international users here.