DMM Games (Fanza Games) can no longer be accessed from outside Japan
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DMM games is a storefront for Japanese gachas and eroge.
As of this morning, the website and the game player are no longer accessible if your IP is not a Japanese one. I ran into this myself and checked other forums for confirmation.
Although it can be circumvented with a VPN or if the game has a mobile app, this just shows the push of the Japanese storefronts towards isolating themselves from westerners and all the issues they bring.
On the one hand, good. They NEED to protect themselves from the west.
On the other hand, I used to love playing Millennium War Aigis. Great tower defense gacha game, way better than Arkknights. A shame.
VPN's will get around that. The only effective way to gatekeep is to implement a national Intranet disconnected from the Internet (or at the very least, having private companies as intermediates like international phone calling with surveillance at the digital border) with zero ability for foreigners to get in. But it would also herald the end of a free and open Internet.
I mean, Korean games got to a point of tying accounts to the equivalent of SSNs, so there are options besides isolated networks that work pretty damn well.
Game player has been wall gardened for a really long time now in my experience. As in months to year or more.
For those who don't have a dedicated VPN, something like TunnelBear to run a game's launcher initially has generally sufficed to continue playing (but it might vary game to game).