Since the official announcement of Steam's Weibo account in mid-2019 that Perfect World is preparing to produce the Steam localization platform "Steam Platform", countless Chinese players have never stopped discussing and speculating about the platform. It is true that this is undoubtedly a major event in the game industry for tens of millions of Steam players in China. For better or worse, the launch of the Steam platform is a matter that may determine the game experience of Chinese players in the next few years-this of course includes all players with mild, moderate and hardcore.
It’s about June 2020, and many careful Steam users began to find a lot of clues about the upcoming launch of the Steam platform in the client's backend files, including platform icons, client parameters, and new Chinese customer service announcements Wait. For a time, major game-related forums, including Tieba, NGA, etc., were flooded with news. Some people were skeptical that the environment of Chinese players was threatened, while others were positive that establishing a local server that does not affect international services is not bad thing.
After a period of discussion, coupled with the "Super Mario Maker 2 Delisting Incident" and "Animal Crossing Delisting Incident" that were raging in mid-2020, many players began to panic, and moved around. After buying and downloading the game to the mobile hard drive, many players also chose to take a calm look at the changes. It wasn't until the same year that Steam founder Gabe Newel (G fat in the player's mouth) issued a statement: "After the Steam platform is launched, it will exist independently and will not have any impact on Steam players." This made many players' hearts fall to the ground.
On January 16-18, 2021, the beta version of the Steam platform will take part in the Perfect E-sports Carnival with many popular games, including the "Dyson Ball Project" and "Ghost "Gu Bahuang" and so on, this means that there may be only a short time left before the official launch of the steam platform. However, the entire Steam, including major domestic games, is still a prosperous scene of singing, dancing, dancing, and dancing. This also confirms the previous promise of G Fat: it will not have any impact on the service of international servers.
In fact, from a rational point of view,The launch of the steam platform is by no means a bad thing. Compared with the previous blockbuster games of DOTA2 and CS:GO, which were represented by the perfect agency, the launch of the national service area has increased the popularity of the community, the number of players, and made the national service ecological environment more formal. Apart from transformation, it has almost nothing to do with the players of the world server. It just gives players more choices: whether to choose a Chinese service and a better online experience, or choose to play with friends from various countries and require various accelerators. Blessed world service.
In addition, after the two games of DOTA2 and CS:GO were released on the national server at that time, Perfect brought Steam’s native CDN download acceleration service into the country, and this event may only be very core Players can detect it.
is not only the growth of the community, the broader display platform for Chinese producers is also the significance of the steam platform. Now many nationally created games released on Steam are almost equivalent to overseas releases, even if there are still many Players support, experience, and purchase, but they cannot be displayed to all players to the maximum. The "Steam International Service Parallel World" created by the Steam platform in China can make outstanding national creative works have more room for display.
More stable server, more localized customer service, the steam platform may not be the "doomsday" that some rumors say, but a high-quality choice compared to the parallel existence of international services. Whether the platform is a "bullet armor" or a "protective umbrella", as a game of the ninth art, the vitality will never be as fragile as people think.
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