• Capt. Wolf
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    1067 months ago

    Citing it as “an injustice to domestic publishers”, Vietnamese studios reportedly say that local game development “will die” if Steam is able to keep releasing games without the same government scrutiny as domestic games…

    Yeah! It’s so unfair that one person can put their heart and soul into making a game on their own, self publish, and be successful! No way anyone else could possibly do that!

  • @pycorax
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    597 months ago

    This all just sounds like the publisher or MBAs speaking. Did they ask the actual developers on their opinions?

    • @[email protected]
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      497 months ago

      Also, it seems like the ISPs were the ones that blocked access. No word from the government yet. Kinda weird to call this a “ban”.

    • MrScottyTay
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      287 months ago

      If you faked your death you’d likely never want to tie yourself to any platform that requires you to make an account that could in time be used to identify you

  • @ABCDE
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    307 months ago

    This was about a week ago, since then it was unblocked, then reblocked. Note, this is only the store itself (and the store within Steam), you can still play your existing games, so it seems they have blocked the store front to hamstring or reduce sales so that Valve will then pay whatever tax amount is going to be asked for.