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Bryanis

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Lately, Dlsite has gone through a serie of change.

They crack down on AI generated work, putting them down in a specific "AI work" sub tab (like doujinshi or pro game), except, the AI tab is clearly cut from the rest of Dlsite, because entering a work name or id in the search gave you an answer for all the tab, but not the AI tab, you need to serach for AI work in the AI tab or it won't show.
Well, it's not like it was coming with all the trash work made with AI, but It's hard for the few serious dev for lacked drawing skill and made food game filled with AI... (yeah, there very few of them).

Another change is the English tag change under pressure from the paiement companies (see https://ulmf.org/threads/dlsite-changed-some-of-their-tags.16607/ ).

But lastly, they also (officially temporary) suspended bank card paiement. While there is option to get around (mostly, buying point through reseller - Dlsite even brought up tutorial about how to do this), the bank card ban is also now touching Ci-en. Yep guy. Go Go Go ! check your support plan.

I don't know about Ci-En, but Dlsite had commented about how 1/3 + if their sales where coming from westerner lately... which would be a big loss if they end up unable to sell there anymore.

Just hope they'll find an answer soon... Because I don't see them making a special westerner selling site (not after merging EN dlsite and JP Dlsite and how Jhoren fare...)
 

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It's pretty much a no win scenario; if they lose CCs, it will hurt their sales, and if they get rid of adult stuff, they can kiss indy money goodbye as many devs and customers would leave, and only getting rid of some adult stuff would still hurt them.
 
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Well, for now you can buy point using a card or Paypal.... but that's using a subsite of Dlsite as a third party...
Pretty sure the western payement system bullying Dlsite will soon realize they're tricked and stop providing service for the third party....

Crap, are we westerner so damn frigging stupid ? Or is it some lobbying of the traditional pr*n industry trying to fight back the H industry stealing their clients ? :D
 

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I think it has to do with weird puritanism infecting the big payment companies. Maybe some uptight old fuck took over and is trying to throw their weight around. Or some insane law got passed somewhere that makes the CC companies criminally liable if some random customer uses their card to buy child porn.

I'm more inclined to lean on the puritan angle. Like, by how they worded their guidelines, human x elf romance is considered bestiality by MasterCard. Just insanely broad wording on everything.

Apparently, bigger sites like Steam,Fanza, and Amazon.jp aren't getting harassed like this.
 
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