Orkhepaj: like here?

AK18200186533: I just inquired about China’s national IPC/IP domain name information record management system, STEAM, did not enter the blacklist at all. Suspected that the fake PS pictures transmitted online is because the V social server is too bad and can’t be uploaded.

ChuckBeaver: Like, literally the most pirated crap on the planet is because of china lol

laser_eyes: I don't know what this so-called "ban" is about. I bought a game on Steam last night and downloaded it - Terminator Resistance. I just got tired of waitng for this game to be discounted on GOG. There were several sales for this game on Steam this year and not one for GOG. Right now it's 50% off on Steam. Sorry GOG, I just couldn't wait.

I accessed Steam from within China two minutes ago and it's working fine.

I know pretty well how China censors it's internet. I've had to live with it for the past eight years. I can tell you with almost certainty that Steam would not be outright banned in China. They don't do things that way. Steam is very popular in China. And I mean extrememly popular. It would cause too much of an outrage to have a total sudden ban on Steam. When they want to ban a website that is popular in China or when a ban might disrupt business they do it in stages.

Some years ago when Google announced that it would no longer censor search results it wasn't blocked immediately. First gmail became unavailable for short periods, then longer periods to force people in China to use another email service. Then the Google website was blocked for short periods and then after a while it was completely blocked and remains so to this day.

If there was a short period of time when Steam was in fact "banned" my guess is that it was done to send Steam a message. Maybe the government asked Steam to remove a game from their website and it wasn't done fast enough. Or maybe they had some other gripe. The government likes to remind people who is boss. A year ago there was a foreign-owned hotel in China that had its website taken down for a week to teach it a lesson about toeing the government line.

In any case there is no Steam ban. It's open for business right now.

blutok: How it is to live in a country with camera st each corner with peoples ranking system for they behaviour? It smells like georges orwell 1984 book.

Breja: Do people now only get news from overlong shitty youtube videos? You could link any of a number of written articles that tell the whole thing in a couple of paragraphs.
https://gamerant.com/steam-china-ban/
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/25/22853520/steam-global-china-banned

but no, instead it's this 15 minute snore fest with some asshat.

InSaintMonoxide: I don't quite understand why one would bother creating an extra version of Steam for the People's Republic of China which has limited features and only a handful of games when the international version is accessible meanwhile in the first place. What is the point in Steam even having that version then? Why would someone want to use an inferior version of the same service?

GamezRanker: It's akin to the likely reason why Gog chose to not sell Devotion: they likely wanted to placate said country to be able to keep making them china bux.

Crosmando: Most people no one longer trust the media

Leevi: And just today here on this now locked thread https://www.gog.com/forum/general/many_gamers_ask_that_lithuanian_games_be_removed_from_gog I was trying to tell GOG to repent proactively and remove games from a country that has offended China and Chinese people. Only for the thread to be rudely locked unjustly. Don't come saying that you were not warned when China blocks GOG too.