I know that this game is also coming to consoles so will those version also come preloaded with this DLC as well or just the last two only?
About Steam China, this is just a copy and paste from RE.
Well seeing how much money Valve makes form China (some indie devs saying that 30-40% of their sales are from China and in some cases a games Steam reviews are about 50% in Simplified Chinese) it is in their best interest to stay in the Chinese market. Other companies like Nintendo are trying to get into the Chinese market (and may potentially not be as successful there compared to the rest of the world) and in the meantime Steam has been very successful there.
Isn't Valve doing this since they are afraid that one day China might just up and complete block off Steam? And if so that is a lot of money that they would be losing out on, so this is a back up plan for just in case? Maybe I'm just naive but doesn't it sound like Valve might block access to Steam in China before the Chinese government does and "allow" people to still access it via a VPN? I'm more curious about how all of this will affect some games that specific types of DRM in some games.
Personally for me I don't want Valve to lose China and the reason for that has to do with my belief (I don't have data to back this up though) that China is basically one of the reason why we are seeing more and more Japanese games on PC? I mean a number of things have changed since 2014 when we started to see more and more Japanese games on PC, and a lot of them now do have Chinese language support (maybe those games launched in China on consoles and also had Chinese language support but I just don't know about it, Octopath Traveler adding Chinese support to coincide with the PC release of the game seems rather convenient doesn't it? I think the game was sold in Hong Kong already but all of a sudden it just got Chinese language support? Also if you check it's Steam page 50% of reviews are in Chinese so maybe it's not a coincidence and SE planned this since they knew it would sell well on PC in China?? Monster Hunter World is another game that seems to have sold very well in China and prior to MHW, Tencent had its own MHOnline game. MHW likely sold as well as it did on Steam because you could not buy it on wegames since the whole video game freeze thing happened in China and I think Tencent even tried to do somethings before hand since they knew who well the game would sell on their store but even up getting screwed over and Chinese users just ended up buying the Steam version instead? Remember the 1 million players that wishlisted it on wegames? )
Maybe the Steam China will hurt some of those games since I think Iffy has had to censor some of its games on PSN in China.
There are some indie publishers that do seem sort of happy about this(??) like Mike Rose (head of No More Robots publishing, that was at the event in Shanghai, for Descenders) since they know that there is money to be made in China and with the curated Steam China that game will get noticed even more. This does make me wonder if there will be changes to the information that devs get on Steam China and if anything on that end will change, and if devs can view Steam China information from within Steam.
One benefit that will be lost is that more Indies might go unnoticed since China might have been helping them get more exposure (this applying to Chinese developed games and the Steam top sellers chart).
There is some good in this (mainly Valve not having to worry about losing the Chinese market in it's entirety and indie devs still being able to potentially reach a wider audience and there for be more successful??)
The bad being that some of the data from Steam will now be split(??) and cause issue more even more games having discover ability problems