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Valve set to launch Steam China next week as standalone service

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Valve will launch a public beta of Steam China on February 9, a standalone service offering games in line with Chinese regulations.Steam China will be run on a separate client from the worldwide Steam services, but will initially allow those with a Steam account to log in to either service.The first pair of games to be launched on the service will be Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and DOTA 2, copying previous data over from Steam’s regular client.

According to a Twitter thread from Daniel Ahmad – senior analyst at Niko Partners – Chinese players will be required to sign up again, but can keep access to their data.Perfect World and Valve will launch a public beta of Steam China on Feb 9.

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