Steam goes to China with the help of Perfect World

Chinese publisher Perfect World is helping Valve to create Steam China, which will bring Steam officially into the Chinese market. This is a huge move that will make this a legit platform in the biggest gaming market on the planet. China spends more money on games than the United States, and the PC is the biggest platform in that country in terms of revenues.

Valve has already worked with Perfect World to run games like Counter-Strike and Dota 2 in China, but this expansion of their partnership means that more games will have an easier path to entering this lucrative market. That’s potentially disruptive, but Valve and Perfect World are not promising that every game from Steam proper will show up on Steam China.