Re: [Mephisto] 宵夜と炎武と魔法の日記
Just how hard is it to buy a game on the japanese dlsite? Is that something I can even achieve living in Europe?
Probably easier from europe than from the US, considering your credit cards might actually acknowledge that other countries exist.
Pitfalls I remember:
- You'll probably need your card set up for 3dsecure, or whatever they call it this month:
Basically, on online purchases, you'll get a redirect to your bank's website to confirm the transfer.
This reduces credit card fees, so some stores require it, and dlsite may be one of them, not sure.
Most likely, you've already set this up if you've used your card for anything other than paypal online,
but if you haven't, the process might get confused and/or require you to set it up.
- Chrome's "translate this page" feature is essential to navigate dlsite's forms
- You want to register an account and use that to purchase, so you'll be able to get updates.
- One of the form fields for name didn't accept regular ascii characters - it required japanese characters or double-width characters.
Either get a web translator to transcribe your name into double-width characters, or copy some random japanese string from the website.
And remember: Officially, this probably isn't supported - dlsite has an english version precisely to create a foreigner dump over there.
This means they can restrict its content when necessary, and media is happy that some of the crazier stuff "isn't available" on the foreigner store.
That said, they don't really have an incentive to make it perfectly watertight -
a sufficiently determined foreigner is indistinguishable from an estranged japanese expat.
But you likely won't be able to ask their support for much help, since officially, you're just supposed to be happy on the eng dlsite.