The global version of Steam has been blocked in China - A Christmas gift from Xi

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Non-chink language threads

https://reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/ro345o/the_global_version_of_steam_has_been_banned_in/ (https://archive.ph/7rcAw)

https://reddit.com/r/Games/comments/ro96mq/theres_a_dns_cache_poisoning_attack_causing_some/ (https://archive.ph/TzSm9)

I'm a chink but my chinese is wank so I don't know any of the technical stuff they might have commented but many users in the chink thread are celebrating this and calling it a joyous occasion lol

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Steam has been banned in China | Hacker News

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Steam Has Been Banned In China

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Good, Valve can make an isolated Steam ecosystem for China where most of the shit is censored to high hells so that game developers have more freedom in making games for the global market without having to bastardize them for chinks and Steam won't have issues by hosting games that Xi doesn't like on the global market. It's a win-win, except Chinese customers are gonna get hit by it, but who cares fuck them lmao
 
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Slav Power said:
Good, Valve can make an isolated Steam ecosystem for China where most of the shit is censored to high hells so that game developers have more freedom in making games for the global market without having to bastardize them for chinks and Steam won't have issues by hosting games that Xi doesn't like on the global market. It's a win-win, except Chinese customers are gonna get hit by it, but who cares fuck them lmao
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They already have a Chinese version of Steam, but supposedly its super unpopular to them because it basically carries very few good games.

I honestly don't mind them banning steam, and hoping for other companies to get banned from coming out of the great firewall. Less cheaters in our games.
 
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If it is only DNS cache poisoning, you should be able to manually add entries for what you need in the hosts or /etc/resolv.conf file.

Unless they actually blocking traffic to and from that host, in that case its a bit more work but should be able to set up a tunnel or proxy to get around that.

If it actually uses packet inspection/analysis then yeah chink-free market. Maybe can make some money from MMO gold inflation
 
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Chinese customers are gonna get hit by it, but who cares fuck them lmao
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They can go back playing social credits simulator which unironically actually exists since 2019, called "Xuexi Qiangguo (literally 'Study and strengthen the nation'). Looks like daddy xi winnie doesn't want his little slaves slacking off with vidyas, time to grind social credits.
 
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I love when giant corporations get kicked in the balls like that.
All these Western companies that have been pandering to China for so long and abandoning the West, are now being banned from China one by one and losing billions.
It's only a matter of time before Disney and NBA get banned as well and I can't wait.
 
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Idiotron said:
I love when giant corporations get kicked in the balls like that.
All these Western companies that have been pandering to China for so long and abandoning the West, are now being banned from China one by one and losing billions.
It's only a matter of time before Disney and NBA get banned as well and I can't wait.
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Is that what Valve was doing? I wasn't aware of any pandering from them.

Also, the more Chinese people removed from the internet, the better. That culture is a train wreck.
 
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RussianParasite said:
So there will be about 100x less cheating in the online games I play?
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Ruin said:
Sweet. Like 85% of aim bots and gold farmers just got banned.

Ching Chong motherfuckers
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PUBG might finally be playable
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They're seemingly not banning games where the Chinese make money from, so farms for CS-Go and the like will still exist it seems and those people will still be able ruin things. Places like that make money for the government. This is for normal civilians who can only buy electronics that have massive backdoors in them so the government can check up on them. So this is the worst of both worlds, gold farmers will still exist and the Chinese population can't access normal games legally.

Chinese version of Steam also seems to be banned so now Valve is drawing $0 from China officially.

But I think this also means that all the digital games they bought are now non-working if China went through with this to such a large extent. Their firewall bullshit can really fuck with shit.
 
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