Am I crazy not to trust Chinese developed games ?

There is no question over the last 10 years the quality and production level of Chinese developed games has seem to sky rocket. Many of these games even being free to play. But honestly I haven’t played a single one. For the same reasons I refused to download TikTok.

China is a well known surveillance state. I worry downloading and playing these games especially on a PC or mobile phone would just be a huge privacy risk.

Am I being to paranoid ? Are there some regulations I’m not aware of that might protect me anyway ?

I feel like I’m missing out on some really high quality visually striking games because of it

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[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have a close friend with severe OCD who spends a lot of their time worrying about very vague hypothetical scenarios that they can't really logically elaborate on, and it just clicked that that's what liberal discourse on China feels like. No, this person who has been out of your life for 10 years is not going to suddenly come back and spread a rumor that you're a terrible person. No, the Communist Party of China is not going to reach through your video games and Do Something to you.