Need Chinese language

Hi there,

I'm a Chinese player who doesn't live in China. I pretty like this game and trying to recommend it to my friends too. This seems bit hard as in year 2024, POE still doesn't have a Chinese language in the option. Majority of games on Steam in these days at lease get Chinese in the text of the games. I do realize Tencent run a Chinese realm in mainland of China. But players who don't live in China will not able to play on their realms as the PIN will be unbearable.

Is it possible for GGG to add a Chinese language for this game and POE2. We player should have the right to choose which realm we want to play on and should have the language available to us.

Thanks.

It's probably due to Exclusive Licensing and Market Separation

Path of Exile in China is operated by Tencent, which typically involves exclusive rights for distributing and localizing the game for that region. Part of this licensing arrangement might restrict GGG from offering Chinese language support on the Western client, as it would effectively create a competing product within the same market, potentially conflicting with Tencent’s distribution rights.

This is common across the industry.