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ABOUT Owned By China

A list of games owned by companies with confirmed Chinese investment or ownership.

You can submit a company for review here: https://forms.gle/3X2QHfkM3FUb7dyC9

Join the follow up curator here:
Made by China 2: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45185160/

Request to join the giveaway group: https://aqua.hsduabhb-nmzhi.cf/groups/ObCgiveaways

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

A Giveaway for Stray is now open!

May 21 - Sm:(e | 1 Comments

In order to join, you will first need to be accepted into the giveaway group here:
https://aqua.hsduabhb-nmzhi.cf/groups/ObCgiveaways

After being accepted into the group, you'll be able to join the giveaway here: https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/HWNlr/stray

If there are any much-wanted games that ya'll would like to see a potential giveaway for, couldn't harm to comment. Good luck everyone :)

Owned By China v2?

May 21 - Sm:(e | 4 Comments

Hey gang,

It's been some time. Hope everyone has been fortunate. I'm just doing a little announcement, kind of looking for some input on some changes I wanna make.

So, I'm not sure if anyone has noticed this with Steam, but sometimes informational curations don't appear on the store page. This can make it difficult for myself to update the curator in certain aspects. Ultimately I'd prefer it if every curation I do shows up on their respective store pages, but I wonder how everyone would feel about the two options I've considered:

Transition all Informational reviews to Negative. Informational reviews prior to this outcome would tag games from minority owned companies.
Remove all Informational reviews. Make it so that the curator only reviews majority, or wholly owned companies.

That's it for the main issue, now some open ended questions to answer in the comments if you'd like to:

Would you benefit from Owned By China being on other platforms for discussion or updates? (Twitter, Reddit, etc.)
Are there any suggestions you have or changes you'd like to see?
Do you feel like the curator is still necessary? Does it actively shape your purchases? Is China still worth avoiding monetarily?

Thank you for any answers to these.

Finally, does anyone have any questions for us? Feel free to put these in the comments also.

Thank you for reading,
OBC Esper

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Owned By China reviews

"I am going to attempt to create a definitive list of games that are partially or entirely owned by China."

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Gray Matter Guerrilla

5 hours ago

@SlowMoJoe - "I couldn't tell Stuxnet from a broadcast tag"

Legitimately made me chuckle.

SlowMoJoe

20 hours ago

@Gray Matter Guerilla: I tried monitoring using Wireshark, but failed miserably. My hacker days never came, I couldn't tell Stuxnet from a broadcast tag. Still, thanks for your reply.

Gray Matter Guerrilla

Jun 10 @ 10:14pm

@SlowMoJoe - I've wondered the same (and not just for CCP titles either). If they haven't done that already, then it's surely in the works.
Only way to know for sure is to look at the actual programming and monitor your connections w/ something like WireShark, BitShark, etc. My 'hacker' days are long over unfortunately....

SlowMoJoe

Jun 10 @ 6:28am

@White Wolf: Has anyone found evidence for code with potentially malicious capabilities remaining on computers after uninstalling software provided by CCP-owned developers? Or for such software phoning home, e.g. transmitting data on computer use and/or personal communication to servers in China, even when the software itself is not actually used?

White ⁧⁧Wolf

Mar 4 @ 10:59am

You can try monitoring installations using third-party software that track any modified/created files. You could also install games in a VM first or exclusively but that can get more technical and requires proper set-up. The simplest way is to just use a properly-configured firewall(simplewall is a good third-party solution for many people). Ultimately the most effective way is to just unplug the internet(and of course disable any wireless transmissions like wifi).

WeirdestList3

Mar 4 @ 10:55am

I ask this because of White Wolf's note about kernel-level rootkit for Highguard. I had installed it, played it, and deleted it. But is there a way to know it's all off my machine and nothing is left lingering?

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