[npteljes]

Another framing of this: Mastercard / Visa, and by extension whomever had them to do the crackdown, are now powerless to change DLSite.

Googling for news, it seems like the story between DLSite and M/V is a push and pull. Many articles turn up that say they have an agreement, then a disagreement, then an agreement again, then a suspension, then they bring it back again etc.

My point here is that their relationship with M/V seems to have failed to actually change them, so, the point "they're powerless to change Japan" stands.

[GoblinSlayer]

It's not just dlsite, Visa is on killing spree in Japan https://automaton-media.com/en/news/access-to-adult-pc-games... - see links to other cases

As for objectification of women: https://automaton-media.com/en/news/credit-card-restrictions...

[npteljes]

I see the assault, but the results are very different from what we can see with Steam and itch.io - I think maybe because of how much M/V matter in the West vs. Japan. Whereas these western companies gave in to pressure, the same pressure in Japan didn't work, the stores just seemed to restrict the card usage, and call it a day.

I wish other payment processors spread in the West. With a much more even distribution of power, they could not abuse it like this (and others could not use them to abuse it like this).