maybe their entire economy relies too hard on the entertainment media

>>12246484
I thought secondhand market was ok but rentals were verboten

>>12246484
bootlicking culture is ingrained into their very dna. reselling/rentals/emulation bad for corporation, we no rike. not just japan but east asia in general

Why don't you ask them instead of getting gaijinsplaining here?

>>12246567
You will never be Japanese

>>12246567
and where do you suggest i go to do that

>>12246801
On 2chan. Just use ai to translate, nigger.

anon, media prices are 100% bullshit and made up by country, it's not "what's this worth?", it's "how much you got?"

all media companies pretend to be strict about international reselling because they want americans paying $78 dollars for a game, not importing it from brazil for $15 dollars

>>12246820
well, smartass, they block non japanese ip ranges

>>12246834
VPN
Or you could find some Japanese guy on some other site and ask him. Japanese dudes aren't unicorns.

>>12246837
Not him but they block japanese vpns as well.

>>12246561
meanwhile the rest of asia bootlegged the shit outta the famicom's entire library

>>12246834
>>12246848
Why can't 4chan do this too?

>>12246484
japs are just like this about intellectual property, there are fucking twitter artists that throw a shitfit about their art being reposted even with a signature on it

>>12246863
I fucking wish. 4chan can but it doesn't because they're greedy for ad money.

>>12246865
>there are fucking twitter artists that throw a shitfit about their art being reposted even with a signature on it
that's true for westerners too, idk why though. aside from not wanting people to use it for slop which is one thing, but just reposting it gives the artist more attention if anything

Isn't this how everything works now, with licenses that are tied to your account and are non-transferable? They were just ahead of the curve of trying to prevent resale to sell more copies before the technology allowed them to actually control it.

Then again, I haven't paid for a game in decades so disregard if Steam or something else does allow license transfer.

>>12246865
They are very schizophrenic about it.
Game companies are fine with doujin artists making bank from drawing grotesque porn of their IP, but will sue the fuck out of some rando making a not-for-profit amateur fangame.

>>12246484
Because it undercuts the sales of their video game companies, which they view as an important industry and rightfully so. It's a large export for them so they protect their industries.

>>12246484
Westerners can't talk hear considering you want to remove all ownership and have everyone paying subscriptions forever. Which is worse in everyway.

I really don't believe rentals and re-selling hurt the industry, quite the contrary in fact. The only thing they can possibly hurt are "blockbuster" games like those of Nintendo/EA and even then the damage would be marginal when compared to the number of units they move.

I believe that in the US rentals boosted and greatly helped smaller publishers with low print runs. When you consider just how many rental shops there were, that's thousands and thousands of copies of the games bought by those rental shops which for small prints represent a substantial part of the sales.
Used games also help build a customer base, someone buying game A used may become so interested that he'd become hyped to buy game B from the same series or dev/publisher new.

As for people who ONLY rented and bought used because they were poor, they wouldn't have contributed much to buying full price precisely because of lack of money.

>>12247478
>believe that in the US rentals boosted and greatly helped smaller publishers with low print runs
Does that describe Nintendo and Capcom?
Would a small (at the time) publisher like Koei be influential enough to slant the very corrupt Japanese political system to benefit their own profit?

>>12247482
Capcom had some smaller print runs too, and wasn't Final Fight Guy a rental exclusive ? In which case it shows they encourage the market; and if it wasn't really a rental exclusive it was a misconception due to rentals buying most copies of the game which also drives my point.

Wasn't there a lawsuit about this where it was deemed that publishers couldn't do the "no resale" thing? Nintendo tried to get resale banned in the same way rentals were, but they failed.

>>12247212
>but just reposting it gives the artist more attention if anything
Most of the repost accounts nowadays are for-profit-leeching ventures who go out of their way to not credit or acknowledge sources. Seeing some anon on 4chan repost my art makes me happy, seeing some bluecheck xitter account repost my art with no credit and getting six digit likes for doing so pisses me off.

>>12246848
>trying to watch something on nicovideo
>blocked or unavailable outside japan
evil doers!
>>12246863
>>12246869
BECAUSE 4CHAN IS AN AMERICAN WEBSITE AND WE BELIEVE IN FREEDOM GOD BLESS AND FUCK YOU

>>12247536
You can read posts on 2chan from outside the country you just can shit on its streets. 4chan should be the same.

>>12246848
If you rent a VPS and host your own VPN it works.