Steam inaccessible from China
On December 25, 2021, users reported that they could no longer access all Steam store and community pages from China.
Steam Has Been Banned In China
China has reportedly banned Steam's global version --Gamepur
In China, in addition to the same Steam that is open to the world , 'Steam China ' exclusively for China, which was jointly developed by Valve, which operates Steam, and Perfect World, a Chinese media company, is being deployed. Steam China, which sells only games approved by the Chinese government, is the same as the original Steam, but at the time of writing the article, only 103 titles are sold, which is more than 100,000 of the original. It is considerably smaller than that.
It was the original Steam that was reported to be inaccessible this time. Steam (store.steampowered.com) actually blocks when using the 'Great Firewall of China ' that can check whether the censorship system 'Great Firewall' deployed by the Chinese government is in operation You can see that it has been done.
In addition, the game media The Gamer reports that 'it may be due to a DNS attack, not an intentional block by the Chinese government.' Valve hasn't issued a statement at the time of writing, but The Gamer notes that if it was a deliberate block by the government, the huge market would have disappeared overnight.
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