Steam Officially launches in China (Gabe after the Chinese Wallet)

Prepare to see a ton of Chinese user on steam

http://store.steampowered.com/cny

Steam supports Chinese currency those who love in China

oh boy. I'm sure piracy rates will go down now.

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Uh, it says China, not Russia.

hmmm? Piracy is huge in china on apps and games. Street vendors sell pirated software right out in the open.

I'm just saying, they lanched in Russia and the piracy rate hasn't changed at all.

Not going into details, but i think the rate might increase.

That's what I was kind of getting at. I dont think it will be embraced there, guess we'll see.

Russia is one of steam biggest markets as Gabe said is to provide a better service not combat piracy

service for what? Steam is a form of drm. You dont need it to play pirated games.

That doesn't make sense if your talking about Russia Gabe Newell said Russia was second to Germany in the European Market for Steam. Steam will have much greater success than MS and Sony that's for sure.

@blueeyedcasva: China might have their own service. Are there any more countries that don't have offical Steam in them?

And? Not getting your point Steam also sells games and it own social networking so obviously its also a service. Just saying what Gabe said by providing better service than the pirates.

The hell are you on about?

Your talking about how the piracy rate might increase if your referring to Russia that wouldn't be possible if its one of steam largest market after it was release there.

Not from Russia, but from China.

And i said "might".

China doesn't have services that offer what steam does and other countries are irrelevant in this topic.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1809623

Apparently Chinese user have said there were many in China who do use Steam

Damn man, i'm just asking.

How would that be possible Chinese user have been using steam before it was considered official I don't see anything that would factor in for a increase in piracy. Steam didn't originally support Chinese currency until recently which would make more accessible to people in China buying games .

Chinese have been using steam even before their currency was official on steam. Blueyeed even link a thread where a chinese user said there were actually a lot of people who do use steam in China.

So, expect a ton of F2P shit? Or is that more Korean?

Still, pretty huge market, but I wonder how it'll do due to piracy being so rampant. Gabe has said that piracy is more an issue with supply rather than wanting free shit.

F2P shit? But look at this chinese game.

Yes, too bad this is a F2P game. I think they should change this game into P2P and release it on consoles and steam, this game have potential if have decent offline and online mode.

PC gaming just became even bigger.

In B4 hat farmers.

not even Humble Bundle would make a dent in that market

You can expect dota 2 player numbers going "slightly" up in steam, so far the chinese have been playing on "perfect world" servers.

You know an average Chinese makes 120 USD a month. So good luck with that.

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