Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4715:BA69:2948:D8DE:1ADD:D7EE-20191112121929

Hehe, I guess it's not that worthwhile if it's not for too many people. Additionally, they have to be paid and more people = more taxes to pay them with. Fax in a car? What for, even? Super busy businessmen that need to have information immediately? I guess, gotta try and see what sticks to a wall. PC games actually stayed the same here. Most of them used to cost 90 DM and it became 45€ which is fair. Just the forced change to digital changed it to like 50+€ in the 10s, even though not even inflation did that. Interestingly enough, the physical versions kinda stayed at 45€ but I'm not sure how it is now since it's been a while since I've been to a Media Markt, Saturn etc. I know that in Eastern Europe physical games are also less expensive. And yeah, food had probably the largest price hike. After the school shooting, you had to have your parents buy it for you or you needed to show an ID that you are age 16 or 18 for the games. Amazon.de also requires ID verification for 18+ purchases. Amazon.jp doesn't, funnily enough, though, I pay with CC there which is always 18+ required. But ID verification could become a thing for sure, either send a copy of it to the shop or use some number. Would still be quite a headache though, especially for smaller shops. China did some good in that regard, when they forced publishers to show the odds. Still didn't help too much and people play those games en masse. Now they are limiting expenditure for kids per week which is, in my opinion, a good thing.

Amazon.jp goods are limited when it comes to direct shipping. Like, DVDs/BDs and books work for instance, games don't (or at least I couldn't). Of course, this could be limited to Germany for some reason. Doubt they lose money, they already have their own planes these days even. We have a lot of medium and smaller stores but I tend to just buy from Amazon.de since I've been there for a long time now and I hate having to use different websites and give my personal information to every single of them.

3-5 aka the Gagharv trilogy is nice, I even got A Tear of Vermillion in the limited mail-order only edition from some guy on Yahoo Auctions. Cost me 10000 Yen but definitely worth it. Even got a free advertising poster with it which is actually pretty good paper quality. The funny thing is that that limited edition weighted over 2kg, so too heavy for a small package. And yep, their Windows stuff is generally better than the awful ports. Even the Western ports of Ys Complete I & II were bad compared to the late 90s/early 00s ports because they ported it from the PSP version which was ported from that version, so you had terrible resolution etc. I think they eventually did a better version but it was still awful. My Falcom cut-off point is basically when the Kato-era (the founder) ended and he gave the reigns to Kondo. At the same time, they switched away from PC gaming (which they had always done, from the very beginning), to handheld/console gaming. So the last game was Zwei II for the PC in 2008. Everything after that...yuck (ports included). Hehe, or just have extremely low expectations in general, that works as well. We will see what becomes of the game. Obiously, I hope it becomes a hit and all those Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights players switched to it (creating modules is supposed to be easy and powerful after all).

Hm, got a package today but obviously wasn't here yet (some neighbour took it but didn't respond to my knocking). Wonder whether that's one of my Japanese packages...even though tracking says one is still in Frankfurt and the other one just arrived in Germany today.

By the way, have you seen that Alicesoft 30 anniversary special? It's only about cheaper digital games on DMM though...and some not-so-good wallpapers. I really hope that isn't all... https://www.alicesoft.com/information/2019/entry002519.html