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I am not a game dev, that's true. Are you?
If you just want to discriminate against China, then maybe. Still miss plenty of actual cases.
That's just how business operates today.
By the way, Chinese holding/investment companies like Tencent have stake in a whole lot of game developers/publishers' companies and their stock, so good luck. Even if the game was developed outside of China, doesn't mean your money isn't going to China.
Let me give you a practical example why this doesn't work:
Escape from Tarkov
Officially the Battlestate Games Headquarter is located in London and payments go there. A small indie developer with a studio in the heart of London, which is really expensive, seems kinda strange doesn't it?
When you look up the address you'll notice it's just an open office space where you can rent single desks per month as work space.
Meanwhile when you look up the founders and people working at Battlestate Games on social media you'll notice one thing:
They all currently live and work in Russia, either St. Petersburg or Moscow in most cases.
Quite convenient for them to have people believe they are a company from the UK, especially when Russia invaded Ukraine and people would call for boykott of russian companies and business with them would be sanctioned.
Secondly studios consist of multiple nationalities so are you going to stop playing a game or games because 5% or more of the developers are from China or have Chinese origin and are working in Western Studios.
And finally all information on the store page is provided by the developer, publisher, not Valve.
My OP was a means of addressing something that has come to the fore in recent months.
China has a bad rep in terms of their IP theft history, dodgy manufacturing and labour practices (Foxcon, Shein, Temu, Huawei et al), and more closely related to Steam, data theft via games and social media platforms. I think my post could be a way of giving the vulnerable consumers on Steam a bit more of a forewarning of where they are sending their money and personal details.
It was a suggestion to get some action going for those vulnerable gamers here that are lured by flashy presentation and themes, like digital bait.
Even as I would appear to be unworldly and naive in terms of the tax-dodging and false-fronting for digital distribution purposes, I'm raising this issue from a position of advocacy, not xenophobia or anti-Chinese (read race, not business practice) sentiment. I would've hoped that this more passive attempt at raising awareness would be received more positively...
I mean technically every sold copy of a game generates money for them. I mean we have
- Ubisoft
- Epic Games
- Quantic Dreams
- FromSoftware
- Grasshopper
- Activision
- Bungie
(and the list goes on and on)I think these two posts are the most pertinent to your suggestion and illustrate just how little showing the game's country of origin would mean. Chinese companies like Tencent and NetEase do indeed have large stakes/shares in non-Chinese publishers and development studios. If you really wanted to avoid giving money to China you'd need to also show every single shareholder investing in the game's developer and publisher. And as someone else pointed out you might as well also pull your PC apart and double check where your parts are made.
would medical history be relevant? i guess it could be, in case some games have epilepsies / seizure provoking content.