Talk:General Discussion/@comment-1914684-20150118191109/@comment-1914684-20150121152130

The "non-foreigner" thing is enforced at the DMM level, and I am not sure Kadokawa is really that anti-foreigner as they do business overseas. When the game come out in PS Vita, there should be no silly cookie region blocks as Sony enforces no regional block (I presume the game needs constant Internet connection).

That said anyone had been Japan (including myself) can tell you the Japanese payment system is really weird and often unfriendly to foreigners. Many ATM machines just won't accept non-Japanese card, and many online merchants cannot accept foreign cards. To get a Sony JP PSN account is very easy, but to pay them is completely different issue. If you are going to buy any of the JP pay money from overseas (JP PSN points or Webmoney), the middleman is going to try to make an arbitarge profit. I am not saying Japanese merchants are unfriendly, the problem may actually be at the banking level.