STEAM regulations in China are expanded or access to the store

The Grand Firewall of China, named by analogy with the Great Wall Surface of China, is the usual name of the Golden Guard Project (Chinese: 金盾 工程), a surveillance and censorship job managed by the Ministry of Public Safety. The People's Republic of China. The job began in 1998 as well as began operations in November 2003. It acts specifically by IP address lock, DNS as well as link filter.

The expanded the subject of Chinese Great Firewalls to the world's largest PC game platform Steam operated by US Valve company was transmitted in overseas bulletin boards REDDIT.

China's Great Firewall is a national censor, communication restriction that China is set to mainland in its mainland, and the target site can not access in a common way. Some widely known target sites also exist Google and YouTube. Of the original Steam, the community part of the bulletin board was subject to a Great Firewall in 2017, but it is an expanded shape for the store etc.

Note that the client itself is available if the user who is living in China is reported, and at least GS: GO play is now possible. For STEAM, a formal Chinese service Steam China has also begun, but the lineup of the game is largely limited.

Although the impact of this restriction is unknown, the search results by the GAME SPARK editorial department using the Game Spark editorial department using the Glade service China Firewall Test that can be checked for the Great Firewall. It is considered to have a major impact on maintenance and new registration of Titles for STEAM, by Chinese developers.

Of course, China's general user (for adult titles, Valve itself regulates sales for Chinese accounts, and the impact may stay minimally) There is a major impact on purchasing power in Steam High, 2022 Steam's state may also have a big change.