Re: スパイダーガーデン RJ141866
How many of you realize that dlshite takes about half of the sale price and keeps it for themselves? I think the people who are selling the game make about 1 dollar from that price point per sale. I remembered seeing a pricing guide somewhere about how much was added onto the price per unit that the seller wanted by dlsite to determine the price charged, but I cannot remember where I saw it.
To be fair, part of the price we see as foreigners are the added premium for their foreign-author support,
which deals with payments to foreign countries and is supposed to help you with adapting your game listings to japanese.
And at the end of the day, dlsite's service is not bad.
Their testing routine adds a delay for new releases, but it does mean that it's extremely rare that you get a game that doesn't work as advertised.
Also, I guess, not getting in trouble with japan law is always useful - websites are no good when shut down.
It's not like they have a monopoly - there are other download sites with similar business models and R18 content. They are just damn good at what they do:
- Their downloads are hosted by akamai, which means you get as-fast-as-your-line-can-go downloads for almost everything (except stuff nobody downloaded in a while). Not bad for obscure japanese things.
- You get infinite redownloads, mostly without DRM. That's better than most digital online stores these days.
- Their store website has excellent tagging/searching, a usable rating/comment system, and fairly decent "similar to things in your cart/account" recommendations.
I quite like dlsite, from a customer perspective. I totally understand creators that don't want to pay the premium and do their own thing.
But if I have the choice to pay a bit more and get via dlsite, I'll seriously consider it. I know they'll get it right.
My favorite facepalm moment was a manual-paypal creator who sent updates via email with everyone's paypal address on CC - a little silly for privacy...