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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[–] TheoryofChange@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

Western software comes with just as much spyware because selling your data is the entire business model. If your threat model is Chinese state actors accessing your data (IDK why they would, maybe it boosts your ego to think they care about you) and your response is to simply use western corporate spyware instead (and id be shocked if there was any level of identity concealment in the way they use corporate spyware) you have accomplished nothing as the Chinese state actors just buy your data from western data brokers. Liberals have consumed the china=bad propaganda so thoroughly that they behave utterly irrationally and incoherently.