Time for WeGame gifts?

Considering I have never ever heard of WeGame before, I think they have a long way to go before being considered a "serious" competitor. But having some competition in the DRM market is always welcome - It might push Valve towards making better improvements to their Steam platform.

China on their way of peacefully conquering the world. If only they didn't act like Big Brother 2.0... ;__;

WeGame has a few hundred games in its library right now, apparently.
They would need a lot more traffic to compete.

Eww :D Not fan of Tencent, I'll stick with me lovely steam and gog.

I hope it doesn't grow any bigger. Chinese games have been getting locked to the platform due to exclusivity agreements, and makes it inconvenient to get those games while lowering the chances of their getting Steam releases or non-Chinese versions. From what I've seen of their client, it seems to contain distracting and obnoxious ads everywhere.

Edit (not sure about the accuracy): Other people have reported bloat, unexplained disk and network usage, irrelevant advertisement bombardments, bad prices and discounts, poor customer service (sudden removal of games from libraries, getting the entire account banned for asking questions about why customers are getting screwed in discussions), pay to win game business models, anticompetitive practices (including removing major features from other platform's releases such as entire language versions), blatant copying of other companies' IPs, poor user information security, etc.

It's always nice to have competition so businesses don't take us customers for granted and instead continue to improve their service in our favor.

Don't see people leaving one big library (if they have it) for another.

The thing with the #1 service providers in China is that they are #1 because their competition was slowly eliminated or swallowed as the government tries to ensure they have one very large fish in every pond. Easier to hold one large rein.
So far none of these companies managed to get a really big break outside the market where it was ensured it is ideal for them. Alibaba may be a giant, but everyone still uses amazon. WeChat Pay may be a revolutionary way to pay with digital money, but it failed miserably in every single country it tried its hand at, even when China put hundreds of millions into pushing it to a local market.

So far the only real success is in the telecom market. Xiaomi made some progress n the low/middle class phone segments by blatantly stealing iPhone designs and repacking them as much cheaper Android phones (and they are rather great), and Huawei is now leading in telecom systems, but nearly all of their products are literally stolen from Ericsson (and partly Nokia), with the only advantage of yet again the government giving them so much money that they can employ a ton of people and push down prices to a level where they can (barely) overcome the competition.

So… WeGame will also fail, miserably, because while Steam's code may be a steaming pile of shit held together with the world's largest amount of digital duct tape, they also have a solid monopoly in the West and millions of tunnel-visioned fans who refuse to acknowledge the existence of the gaming world beyond Steam (we see plenty of those here, the "I am not playing any game unless it is on Steam*" crowd), and WeGame's "exlusives" are mostly a bunch of Tencent's local knock-offs of other popular Western games or Chinese tactical RPGs that are not really popular as a genre beyond the SEA area anyway.

However, especially in the software service market, nobody has ever been able to find a Chinese copycat that was actually even remotely close in usability and stability to the Western thing it copied.

*Unless it is on battle.net, because we must love Blizzard, so battle.net is okay, we just never add this tidbit and pretend we don't have an account there.

I doubt they are serious competition, but we can only hope!

Considering Tencent's majority and minority ownership of multiple game studios, it would be a piece of cake for them to get some exclusive games with great appeal for their platform.
So I sooner or later expect WeGame to be installed on most gaming PCs, how successful they'll be to establish themselves for non-exclusive games ... who knows. We can only take if for granted that they have the money and the ambition.

I am Chinese.
Tencent is known as a social network company. The success of their game is, to some extent, rely on the their monopolistic social network software such as QQ and Wechat.
Tencent surely has a lot of money, which helps them to buy the stock of famous game companies (like Ubisoft). Their money are come from the power of monopolistic social value and the pay-to-win strategy. The gameplay is never the most important thing to Tencent.
Their successful products are all online games, and their platform WeGame do not have so many followers even in China.
As you know, Chinese can not connect to steamcommunity.com, and is not very convenient to use steam. But we also prefer steam to WeGame.
If WeGame has the same quality of games as steam, I may choose to use WeGame because steam is really not convenient in China. But it will never happen. Windows store of Microsoft can not do the same thing, GOG can not do the same thing, and at this time, I dont think WeGame can do something.
So, I think its not the right time to take WeGame gift into consideration.

Not a single chance. Chinese design of web sites (and interfaces at all) is far behind rest of world. Have you visited chinese-only websites? It's like you time-travel to late 90s - early 00s. They could not compete in service. And, unlike phisical goods, they cant really compete in price too (well, they can for their own games, but most of games developed outside of China so far.). Nothing to worry or be happy about.

I know tencent has its tentacles spread thoughout the game industry and has this plan to grab a piece of the PC gamming market for themselves but I think it will hardly happen, the truly big publishers like EA, Ubisoft and Activision-Blizzard have barelly managed to carve themselves a little bit of the market and that was thanks to exclusives and other such tactics. WeGame will become just yet another minor client that everyone has an account for but they don't even bother installing it.
In my eyes the only one that has a true shoot at competing with Steam right now is GOG, and that's because they're offering a better service to some extent, and even they have GOG conect going on to tempt users into their ecosystem.