{"id":98859,"date":"2019-08-21T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/349206"},"modified":"2019-08-21T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:37:00","slug":"steam-is-heading-to-china-as-a-separate-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/21\/steam-is-heading-to-china-as-a-separate-marketplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam is heading to China as a separate marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steam is heading to China as a separate&nbsp;marketplace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/319797\/Valve_partners_with_Perfect_World_to_bring_Steam_to_China.php\">co-created by Valve and Chinese developer-publisher Perfect World<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/technode.com\/2019\/08\/21\/steam-china-will-be-separate-from-the-international-version-of-steam\/\">As reported by Technode<\/a>, the marketplace is officially called &#8220;Zhengqi Pingtai,&#8221; which means &#8220;Steam Platform,&#8221; and will operate almost entirely independently of Steam.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By making Steam China a self-contained platform, Valve will be able to ensure it meets the increasingly strict game regulations currently being implemented in China without having to make changes to the broader Steam marketplace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to Perfect World, Steam China will be &#8220;tailored for Chinese users,&#8221; and will feature high-speed servers along with a top-notch quality operations team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first round of games to launch on the platform will be comprised of around 40 titles currently available on the international marketplace, and includes some of Valve&#8217;s own heavy-hitters like <em>Dota 2<\/em> and <em>Dota Underlords<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still no word on when Steam China will open for business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam is heading to China as a separate&nbsp;marketplace co-created by Valve and Chinese developer-publisher Perfect World.&nbsp; As reported by Technode, the marketplace is officially called &#8220;Zhengqi Pingtai,&#8221; which means &#8220;Steam Platform,&#8221; and will operate almost entirely independently of Steam.&nbsp; By making Steam China a self-contained platform, Valve will be able to ensure it meets the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}