Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-40164738-20191117012018

Doesn't surprise me, easier availability and people care less. Also they tend to be made aware earlier, one side effect of education on those matters. Maybe it was considered "adult stuff" and kids just ignored it? Most of the machines I've seen weren't really enticing to kids either, just marlboro or camel paintjobs. Gambling machines were far more enticing as a kid, but also far more rare. Needs to be more research in the alternatives, I tend to hear people rave about vaping and how it helped them stop smoking, but in reality they're still smoking. Just with less of the cancerous stuff from a cigarette, but who knows what else? Current speculation is just bad "vape juice" from China. Either way, it needs to be regulated like any other form of legal drugs. Must've been 2000s-2004, pretty sure it showed a list of previously visited websites at that point. I jumped on adblockers pretty quickly, so the worst I remember dealing with is a few pop-ups and the surprisingly crafty "enlarge your X" which finds new ways to get around whatever method of blocking. You probably have timed lock software, but knowing my experience with those they were easy to get by. Might works for someone under 10. Will probably mean the end of temp/fake/login-only accounts.

I'm pretty sure I've spent more on shipping than actual costs, even with "bigger" second hand products of around 1500-2000 yen you'd still be paying 2500 yen on shipping alone. 1000-1500 for CDs and those can be real cheap. Add to that the minimal service fee and I wouldn't be surprised if I paid double or triple the actual costs. Maybe teleportation technology should be a priority... Issue with the quality for third party sellers seems to be that the sellers pick the quality. It's not actually evaluated, Would be impossibly expensive. So you can have one honest seller which states a "as new" but not mint package as "good" and some shitty seller thinks if everything is included the state is "very good", despite it being clearly used. Don't know how Amazon handles returns when it comes to quality, as all I've ever bought is new (.de) or via a proxy. Just look for a reasonable price, not a great price. Location is important for that as well, as is time (recent sales for example). Bought from Russia, the USA and most of europe and as long as it doesn't look too good to be true, you're probably golden. Also best to get from highly postive sellers. Must suck just starting out on Ebay, everyone probably evades barely reviewed sellers. Pretty common here as well, know someone who works for the "regular mail" at postnl, so letters, mags, etc. The last few years people've been buying far more "smaller packages" which get shoved to the regular mail, mostly Alibaba or its subsidiaries. Some people are absolutely insane with it apparently, receiving tens of tiny packages each week. Some family members talked about it as well, but that's been a while so I'm not so sure how common it is for the average person. I prefer to get my stuff quickly though, the only time I've ever ordered something from there I had to wait 2 months and it wasn't Chinese new year either.

Info should be out there, I can find loads of doujin albums for Falcom stuff specifically. Maybe Touhou fans beat them out in thoroughness though. I can imagine official or third party release will be documented if doujin is their priority now. The translation had some issues, but they weren't as bad as Gagharv's PSP port. It had a few untranslated strings, but I think I only found two and I did a 100% run. I don't remember being very confused about the way they were speaking, so the quality should've been decent. Ofcourse I'm not too in with the Ys lore, so I might've missed any lore terminology being butchered. I obviously didn't note down all the re-releases, but there were plenty yeah. Guess the Japanese like it, can't remember much western ports/re-releases after the micro-PC era. Though I guess AOE2 is coming pretty close to that level now. I guess it's nice to have the games ported to newer operating systems though, means you don't have to fiddle as much to get it to work.

The wikipedia page mentions some differences. I'd say for 900 yen that's a pretty good buy in such a condition. Sometimes get books which are still wrapped (accidentally), but they don't even go that cheap. I get the sentiment. Better to support the dev in some way, a second hand sale means nothing for them after all. Full price is hard to to justify though, especially in the case of digital. Maybe a pricing system similar to the humble bundle, but with a higher start could be a nice option. Allows people to pay more if they want, but I'm guessing others who would've paid 25 would now go down to 10. It sells in Japan, ultimately that's their market. I can understand it from a monetary perspective and gacha doesn't seem to hurt their reputation as much in Japan. I hope they'll make plenty of money and reinvest it into regular games, but the siren's call of the gacha gold can corrupt.

Checking the guy's storefront, he has some ridiculous prices all around. Even sells limited edition Comiket calendars for 2500 yen. classy. Something are prices at really normal used prices it seems. Guess people do buy the stuff, he has reviews.