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Eldwood6 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

1.Itch.io BAN chinese IP, not China ban Itch.io

From the perspective of game developers here, it doesn’t matter who is blocking who. All that matters is if Chinese people can see the games. Why would you anybody put Chinese-language games on a site that blocks Chinese gamers?

That said, I seriously doubt that Itch bans Chinese IPs, but I doubt even more that China doesn’t ban Itch. Because Itch is full of things that the Chinese government finds offensive. Heck, it’s full of things I find offensive. There may even be some overlap! If China doesn’t ban Itch, that’s probably a matter of oversight, not of policy.

(For the record: I would love to add Chinese translations to my games, but my Chinese isn’t nearly good enough to make the translation myself, and I can’t really afford to hire a good translator, plus an independent editor to verify the translation, at the moment.)

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Maxy6 days ago

1.China only ban the websites with serious potential to affect domestic security, such as overseas mobilization or collective crime, Itch.io didnt in the list cuz it just the people who in it and who manage it hate China and only just scold but not actions

2.You people are always like this. When there are biased or fundamentally incorrect lies, I just expose them, and you add that it's not important at all. But if I don't expose these lies, you will assume that what you're saying is right

3.Yes, Chinese can see Itch.io if people wanna see, Itch.io ban Chinese IP, but people can still access it by vpn, and anyone can just find a vpn to access ezly, so Yes, puting chinese language games are meaningful

4.You can try AI firstly maybe, AI can at least translate some memes, but only recommand AIs trained with many chinese datas, deepseek or kimi or DouBao, and just like wut i said before, u can ezly find a chinese if u want, go to QQ, go to BiliBili, get in a chinese server and promote your games, it is just like how u did it on Itch.io, just diff websites, and there are already some guys made it by this way, if u go to BiliBili, u will find that there are already some people promoting their games even without chinese language yet, but still people play it. you shouldnt think thats 2 diff ways, they are the same way, find chinese in BiliBili just like find eng guys in Itch.io, and use QQ like Discord. Well, if you dont wanna use both of them, u can only try to find them in Discord, and there are also many chinese use Discord, u can actually find one if u want

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