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.
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).
they are protecting themselves from people trying to cancel them in the West . I say good on them . To be honest i think all Japanese websites in general should block out foreigners.
A common pattern I've seen with Japanese websites hosting... that sort of content. In this case they are just catching up to their main site dmm.co.jp which first blocked outside access a year or two ago, then blocked all access from non-account holders entirely. The non-adult site dmm.com is still available. Coincidentally I'm playing Yakuza 4 right now and it has a few billboard ads for dmm.com.
Every time shit like this happens, redditors scramble to proclaim how the pressure being exerted by the payment processors on Japanese sites is due to "puritanical Christian groups."
ask those people if they are anti or pro fanservice in anime
no my botes
Azur Lane's still doing fine + about to release three new completely insane L2D skins in the next event.
i ain't playin no chinese knockoff bote game
More huge fat swaying boat tits for me then.
more power to you. i'm in too deep to quit.
Fair winds and following seas, brother.
Woah woah woah what is this WOWS talk I hear in my forum?
Its like how pixiv was relatively unknown.. until some pro-freedom of speech people tweeted about it, thus making it a target to the woke.
As English speaking peoples become less white and more African this will only accelerate.
Fucking gachas. Keep em.
gambling and porn. truly what the west needed to save itself - japan has doomed us by denying us these vital resources.
Wasn't this always the case for most DMM content? I used to play KanColle at release, over a decade ago, and even then you needed a VPN to play. The workarounds always involved grabbing page-specific links, particularly your unique API link for the game window, which would expire after a set amount of time and require you hop on the VPN again.