It’s about giving permission to play, not streaming. If the game is officially licensed in the country – it can be released. Of course, only products that satisfy the Chinese Communist Party are licensed for sale.

What is known about the ban

At the moment, one of the most famous novelties of recent times – the hit “Elden Ring”, which cannot be officially purchased on the Chinese market, will suffer the most. The game has already built up a significant local player base and still shows great interest in the project. Now it will be very difficult for them to access it. However, Elden Ring will not be the only one, nor will it be the last.

China has openly used “brutal” methods to regulate its gaming industry before, so experts were not surprised by the innovation. In fact, it’s been “in the air” for a long time, as the banning of unlicensed games, provided the authorities want to completely block access to them. Broadcasts of the game were previously unofficially off limits, but now they’re under the knife.

It is difficult to get a license for video games in China. Beijing does not hide that it is ready to resort to restrictions, considering games to be useless and even frankly harmful for young people to spend time. And the less contact with them, the better. In order to understand how bad computer games are in China, it is enough to know that only one game has been allowed to enter the strict censorship country in the last 9 months. It was Party Star from XD Inc.