On January 14, it was reported that Steam's official website published its 2020 annual review today. In the "Vision 2021" part of the report, it was mentioned that Steam's team has cooperated with Perfect World to create a "steam platform" - a special version of Steam's landing in the Chinese mainland market, which is expected to be launched at the beginning of 2021.

In fact, the steam platform project was announced two years ago, but the online time has not been determined. Perfect World once said that the launch of the project would not affect other existing operations and services of Steam worldwide.

According to Twitter blogger Daniel Ahmad, the steam platform will be launched for testing on January 16, mainly to provide Chinese users with licensed games, and the project will not affect the use of the international version. However, most domestic players are concerned about whether the area will be locked in the future. Neither the official nor the leaked news mentioned it.

Steam mentioned in the 2020 annual review that many data of Steam platform in 2020 have reached a new high. At present, the number of monthly active users has reached 120 million, and the number of daily active users is 62.6 million. The maximum number of simultaneous online users is 24.8 million. The total game time of players is 31.3 billion hours. The game purchase volume has increased by 21.4% compared with 2019, and the game time has increased by 50.7%.

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