How Tencent’s WeGame is changing to compete with Steam in China

The world’s largest gaming company is taking on the world’s largest gaming platform.

The number of Chinese Steam users has reached 17 million, based on SteamSpy. With its current growth rate, it’s just a matter of time before it surpasses the US and become the biggest national community on the world’s largest gaming platform. Meanwhile, on April 20, the world’s biggest gaming company, Tencent, officially announced that its Tencent Games Platform will be renamed Tencent WeGame, and will no longer host web or mobile games but instead only focus on PC client and standalone games.