It kept my friends who work in the JVM/java ecosystem to pull in some extra hours to mitigate damage.
Good thing i'm not in that ecosystem so i had a nice long weekend
Chinese OS and software ecosystem
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Good thing i'm not in that ecosystem so i had a nice long weekend
well there brother, majority of these mmos are free to play, same as the mobile ones, they are good at manipulate the general mass into spending on cosmetic items or just down right op p2w, it is true that sp games are cheaper in actual spending, but the need for hardware, and the heavy up front cost made it seems more expensive, also online gaming has a social presence too, for example if majority of your demography play lol, you better play it too
Yes but its single player games with engaging story lines that actually do cultural exports and promote Chinese culture
That's the soft power thing that people here want China to have. However, instead of having that, all we have now is garbage mutliplayer free-to-play gacha/casino games which their only purpose is to drain your wallet
Could something like Tencent game pass work in China? Seems to be working great for Microsoft gamepass ultimate.
You are saying that like tecent has any decent triple A or indie titles, I believe they do have a rip off steam for mainland markets but dear god please let's avoid talking about that thing, there are people willing to drain their kid's college fund or house mortgage to just gamble for a anime girl from a gacha game, the puny profits from gamepass is not in the eyes of the tencent higher ups, but the good thing is they don't middle with their invested oversea studios, still better than EA
Well to have a gamepass you need a huge diversity of games with AAA/AA/ indie games, then different categories such as strategy/action/racing/adventure/RPG etc
Basically you need a lot of games in order to grab as much of the gaming market share as possible
Then there is another issue which not many people like to talk about. Chinese authorities are painfully slow to approve games to be sold in China. This leads to long delays, and so some gaming (mostly small indie) companies do not even bothering to expand in China (although it has a huge market)
To conclude, the whole gaming ecosystem in China is rotten, top to bottom. The old dinosaurs in the propaganda department are taking their sweet time and constantly require changes and censorship which increases companies' cost. Then most of the games are free-to-play garbage casino games which people like to play
Its helpless. I don't expect any significant change to happen until after 2030.
That i did not know, heard it was bad but yeah this bad i never knew. You see the same shit here in the West with Cosmetics people acting as if they force you to buy everything, like i saw in the Halo community. I hardly ever care to spend money on cosmetics so its really foreign for me so i was like why are people spending hundreds of dollar on a free game.
Is that mostly for foreign games because that i did know, but for domestic games is it equally painful?
The game industry is growing in China and more and more bangers are coming out each year, where you have people go like "what thats a chinese game!!11!!"
Yes the trend has gone up indeed recently, with many great indie games and a few major title coming up, so I do have more hopes for a growing industry in mainland, and I also believe the progress of gaming industry is based on the average income and over all development of the nation, although I don't really play many triples As now, what I actually wished to see is games made in China like dwarf fortress, or bioshock, and I am very please with the recent new indie trends like the cultivation simulator and the black myth
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Reviews are only an issue if your game contains mature imagery or subject matter. It's been hugely exaggerated in the Western media. Most of those seemingly ludicrous changes done to Western games for the Chinese market were not at the behest of the Chinese review board, but by the game development companies themselves in the hope of pre-empting any potential issues with the review. This is because those companies are simply not aware of what's acceptable and what's not for the Chinese public. I don't think domestic games have any such issue unless they really push the boundaries.
You can still access the regular version of Steam from China, so it's a non-issue.