This is interesting to me: Steam shifted how they handle their downloads to make room for remote work and school at the request of both internet companies and governments.
This is interesting to me: Steam shifted how they handle their downloads to make room for remote work and school at the request of both internet companies and governments.
An interesting note: various countries' government bodies approached us and other large Internet companies to see how we could help mitigate the rise in global traffic that ISPs were seeing, because it was getting to a point where it was affecting people's ability to work from home and their children's remote schooling. In response, we made some changes to help manage the bandwidth during work and school hours, and to defer updates to the evenings.
It's certainly possible, but I am sceptical. Apple, for example, provides a markedly different service in china than they do throughout the rest of the world (data for chinese icloud accounts is...
Steam won't be the same after they do that
It's certainly possible, but I am sceptical.
Apple, for example, provides a markedly different service in china than they do throughout the rest of the world (data for chinese icloud accounts is stored on chinese soil by a chinese company). This doesn't seem to affect the rest of their operations.
I’m also a little confused by this since I have already played Steam games in China. It required me to put an ID card in to create my steam account, and I used WeChat to pay for it. All players...
I’m also a little confused by this since I have already played Steam games in China. It required me to put an ID card in to create my steam account, and I used WeChat to pay for it. All players were mainland Chinese on presumably mainland servers, given then latency. I wonder what the “bringing steam onshore” means - more Chinese exclusive games?
This is interesting to me: Steam shifted how they handle their downloads to make room for remote work and school at the request of both internet companies and governments.
Steam is going to the China market. Steam won't be the same after they do that. I can only imagine what will change.
It's certainly possible, but I am sceptical.
Apple, for example, provides a markedly different service in china than they do throughout the rest of the world (data for chinese icloud accounts is stored on chinese soil by a chinese company). This doesn't seem to affect the rest of their operations.
I’m also a little confused by this since I have already played Steam games in China. It required me to put an ID card in to create my steam account, and I used WeChat to pay for it. All players were mainland Chinese on presumably mainland servers, given then latency. I wonder what the “bringing steam onshore” means - more Chinese exclusive games?