The public beta of the Chinese version of Steam, for which the publisher Perfect World is responsible, has become available to local gamers. Now a little more than 40 games are available in the store, including the titles of Vavle itself.Analyst Daniel Ahmad drew attention to this.

Tomorrow Valve will start testing the official version of Steam for China. However, local users expressed their dissatisfaction with what was happening. They fear that they will soon be deprived of the opportunity to play thousands of games due to the unavailability of the international version of the store.What is the dissatisfaction of gamers?

Valve may be preparing to merge the Chinese and global versions of Steam. If this happens, many developers will no longer be able to sell games in China without the approval of the local government (now only dozens of foreign titles are licensed per year).Prerequisites for the merger and possible consequences

China is actively preparing a local version of the Valve store. A line of games for Steam China was announced today.

This Wednesday, November 28, it became known about the conclusion of a deal between Valve and the leadership of Shanghai. The parties agreed to launch the official Chinese version of Steam.