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Japan PSN (Playstation Network) Store - CERO Z - kazuki - 2014-10-09
So I was kind of interested in downloading "The Last of US - Remastered" off the JP store. I followed the process I had in the past where I purchased a PSN Card from PlayAsia (not terribly overpriced, pretty good deal) and input it into my wallet. However, I go to download the game and get 購入 instead of カートに入れる. I click on it, thinking that I can probably just choose funds that are already in my wallet and BAM - It says that I need a credit card to verify that I'm over 18 years old anyway. Go to try and input my US credit card and it takes it! But the next screen verifies the address of the card holder and you can't choose your country, it's locked on Japan.
So, I suppose I'm putting this up as a warning to anyone thinking of purchasing CERO-Z games on the PSN Store. I was going to try to put a fake address in the screen with the credit card, but I'm sure it would fail since that's always checked whenever credit cards are verified.
I don't suppose anyone has any advice for this other than purchasing the physical game from PlayAsia?
Japan PSN (Playstation Network) Store - CERO Z - vix86 - 2014-10-09
I would have suggested buying from Yahoo Auctions and using a deputy service but looking at the price on PlayAsia, it'd be about the same if not more.
Only other way is to make friends with someone in Japan that doesn't mind activating the account with a credit card.
Japan PSN (Playstation Network) Store - CERO Z - MelonBerry - 2014-10-09
Not regarding the game, but for purchasing things. A lot of sites up their prices A LOT on consoles/games. Play-asia and others are really expensive imo.
There's two sites I use to get consoles and physical copies of games. The prices are listed much cheaper, and even with the shipping cost ( fedex ! ) added, it's still cheaper than the original prices of play-asia.
One of the sites is nippon-yasan, and I don't think a lot of people know about it.
The prices are extremely good. EX : 3DS LL brawl pack is 270 on play-asia. On nisson-yasan it's 199 + $20 fedex shipping = $120.
Just a heads up if people want to be things like that though.