The private Chinese tech company ByteDance, worth over $300 billion, is about to launch its own PC storefront for global video game distribution. Will Steam be able to fight off this new rival? https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/chinas-bytedance-reportedly-building-a-steam-competitor-gametop-for-overseas-markets-will-distribute-and-publish-games-like-any-other-store-while-harboring-a-social-space-with-ai-assisted-creator-tools
>No more chinamen on steamPLEASE let this happen
>>724328262UR mR Gaie
>>724328262Your average steam user is already too deep in to go anywhere, I have like 200+ games on there, why the fuck would I move somewhere else? Especially if it's some chink spyware?
>>724328262EGS literally gives games away for free and they can't beat Steam, what hope do the chinks have?
>>724328803Every game playable on Linux?
>>724328262I'll just continue to pirate everything thank you very much. Imagine trusting China with your data
>>724328262Even if they somehow provide services better than Steam why would i use it?
I'm not chinese. This is an American website.
>>724329041To give your data to China, obviously.
>>724328754You want a real answer? A native Chinese Steam competitor could get massive global market share by gobbling up their domestic audience and new adopters outside of China may join it instead of Steam, just like how people joined TikTok instead of Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Steam then dies demographically over time as it fails to attract new users and old users age out. This is what's happening to consoles. >>724328803About 10 times the net worth of Epic Games.
i will be using it after my entire investment fund was wiped by gabe newell aka JEWell... i can only trust china and mao zedong's vision now...
>>724329246>A native Chinese Steam competitor could get massive global market share by gobbling up their domestic audiencePLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET IT HAPPEN PLEASE NO MORE CHINKS ON STEAM
>>724328262Okay good luck
Please. PLEASE remove chinks from Steam.
>>724328262>TikTok owner ByteDance They don't own tiktok anymore. Trump forced China to sell Tiktok to wealthy jews so they can censor anti-israel and anti-judaism content.Anyways this post is vidya related, I do welcome this development, more competition is good and Steam has gotten complacent. GOG is by far the best though, DRM is cancer. But I am curious how a Chinese launcher would work and what pricing thet would have.
If you're a patriot, you'll only ever use the AMERICAN digital distribution service.
Does this mean that zipperheads will stop review bombing every single game that slightly hurts their feelings?
>>724329246>About 10 times the net worth of Epic Games.Doesn't mean shit. Microsoft is like 3 times bigger than Snoy and 30 times bigger than Shittendo and it still fucked up big time with xbox. It's not about how big you are, it's all about how you use it (lol).
>>724328803epic game store is actively repulsive
>>724328262Why would a MAGA propoganda company waste money like this, they already won the gamer culture war
>>724329609True, but Xbox was still a thing for almost a quarter century before it quit. Only Nintendo and Playstation lasted longer.
>>724329246>Chinese competitor gobbles up their domestic audience of F2P gamers and pirates
>while harboring a social space with AI-assisted creator toolsIs that supposed to be their unique selling point? lmao
>>724328262>no more chinksects on SteamI support ByteDance with all my heart.
>>724329851You might think your side is better than the bugmen. It's not.
>>724329932>more than half of the games on top 10 for PC aren't even on Steam>even then Steam dominates PC marketYeah it'll be fine.
>>724329932>not a single Chinese gameYeah, nobody has anything to worry about.
>>724328262Oh thank god, please let the Chinks fuck off from steam.
>>724328262>journo piss article>Hassan NasirDO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEM SAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
>>724328262Don't they have epic already?
>>724328262It'll be somewhere between Steam and EGS in terms of functionality, but asks for a 50% cut from (non-Chinese) developers.
TikTok quickly became a juggernaut, so I'm not gonna be quick to dismiss whatever this is going to be.
>>724328262>Steam >Steam, China (with AI slop)
Steam will do the same thing they did every other time a competitor tried muscling them out: nothing
>>724328262>Will Steam be able to fight off this new rival?>fightCome on now. Maybe the better question would be if EGS can maintain a sliver of relevance.
>>724328803Epic is chink owned. This is attempt 2.
>>724329759this but unironically
>>724328262Is this what they plan to do? Implode Steam?
>>724328262TEAR DOWN GAYBENS MONOPOLY
>duckov 2 will be yellow mist exclusiveNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>724328262Very impressive. Let's see their pro-consumer stances.
>>724328262wish xbox had one of these. Would be nice to have all the characters unlocked in jsrf, some games would be fun for glitch hunting etc
>>724333078Wouldn't it be Fog?
>>724329246Amazon tried to muscle out Steam, and failed so badly that you don't even know to shitpost about it. It turns out you need to make a good product to compete with a good product, and Steam for all it's warts is pretty damn good.https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ethanevansvp_as-vp-of-prime-gaming-at-amazon-we-failed-activity-7295834479036702720-cDmX/
>>724329246>You want a real answer? A native Chinese Steam competitor could get massive global market share by gobbling up their domestic audience and new adopters outside of China may join it instead of Steam, just like how people joined TikTok instead of Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Steam then dies demographically over time as it fails to attract new users and old users age out. This is what's happening to consoles.Won't happen worldwide though. It might find its market in China and other asian countries though.
Dont the Chinese ALREADY have their own PC storefront?
i am also predicting china will start making a console now that xbox is buried
>>724336250They already have consoles, they're called phones.
>>724329040>muh data is very important despite not being able to afford >$100 dollar gamesKEK
>>724336108>Won't happen worldwide thoughTikTok
>>724336250>homeconsoles in big 2025lol right after the dedicated music player
>>724336250The time is ripe now when everyone saw Microsoft lose with infinite money they lost who knows how many billions, their most successful console still ended up in third place
>>724328262If they won't invest into translation of chinese cultivation games to english (at the very least), then it is completely pointless endeavor.
>>724328262As far as I'm concerned, all they have to do to beat Steam is not discriminate against Japanese bishoujo games.I'm not holding my breath, though, they're chinks.
>>724328262This is good. China likes anime games and doesn't censor games due to sexuality or transphobia or custom swastika textures or whatever.Steam will remain the place for Russians and BRs to cheat in CS and Dota, and for white trannies to play TF2.I'll see the rest of you on the ByteDance launcher!
>>724336535Tiktok is NOTHING similar to steam, you retarded chink. One is free videos and the other is a store where people already have hundred if not thousand of dollars in games. These people won't move.
>>724328262chinese nortubel when?
>>724328262>chinks making an international quality productat best it's just going to pull all the bugs to their platform, too bad we're still getting pajeets
>>724328262Yeah, Valve has beaten the chinks before and it wont be the last.
>>724337372Valve bent the knee to the payment processors. They already lost.
>>724330754SEXO
>>724329040>>724329235>duuude China will have your dataOk and? What exactly can China do to harm me with that data?
>>724336191They also have their own internet yet still keep infesting ours
And how will they convince people to use their service when chinks on Steam have been there for years and built up their account from ground up?
>>724338273Uh, they don't get a choice. They're Chinese.
>>724338117>what can the countries that steal billions from other countries do with your data?!?!Use your imagination
>>724338273Using the chink platform will get you social credit and will eventually be required by the government because it gives them access to your system.
>>724329561Only the part that operates in US. Not worldwide.
>>724328262Nobody would use this, not even the chineseThe chinese HATE anything that tries to replace steam, the only complaint they have about steam is sometimes needing VPN to log in since connection is unstable sometimes.
>>724328262I already have all my games on Steam why would I use their platform exactly? people need to realize Steam succeeds because of customer loyalty, only Valve can kill Steam.
>>724340226That happens when successful companies get complacent.
>>724328262nobody is using this outside of china, even within china its going to be full of the lowest grade AI shit within a year or two.
>>724340472I agree but so far the last time Valve fucked up was during the Paid Mods fiasco and they never tried it again.
