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
Um no, any propreitary game with an internet connection and privileged access to your computer can and will spy on you, your goal should be sandboxing, limiting permissions and information access and using a zero trust policy.
What country a proprietary application is from doesn’t matter, any private company can and will spy on you for profits, be it Chinese or American, even better if the courts are corrupt and run on cash.
The US can just as easily launch a centralized surveillance campaign, and likely does through the NSA, do not trust any proprietary application just because it’s from a “civilized” or “developed” country, they are but the same as long as they are chasing profits.