I feel like lack of foreign competition and its relationship to the quality of Chinese games is over-simplified. Competition is definitely there, and probably f

I feel like lack of foreign competition and its relationship to the quality of Chinese games is over-simplified. Competition is definitely there, and probably fierce: pirated copies of popular western games everywhere on the internet. If I search Minecraft on Baidu I will instantly get tons of usable pirated links. It is probably because Chinese companies cannot compete against high-quality pirated foreign games that they have to move their focus to those "Four Great Classical Novel" games where the companies naturally excel. Thus when competition is fierce enough within the traditional Chinese game genre, a lot of the games start to degrade into cheap flashy horribly-designed ones. But in general, I agree that 99% of current Chinese-made games, when compared to their equivalent western counterparts, are inferior in quality by a strong margin. I however feel it is much more sophisticated than the reasons people associate with QQ, 360, etc. . I remember reading that the most successfully designed Chinese games were made around 2003 until piracy drove quite a lot of the companies behind the games out of profit, so now for the sake of profit a substantial portion of Chinese game companies forgo better game experiences for quick cash instead. edit: last sentence found irrelevant