Ultimate Game Card is retiring this year
After seven years of having fun helping gamers pay online for virtual currency in their favorite games, Ultimate Game Card (UGC) will be retiring later this year. Ultimate Game Cards are in the process of being pulled from all retail stores and removed from online resellers. Consumers will no longer be able to buy Ultimate Game Cards after August 15th, 2014.
The last day to redeem your activated UGC codes will be September 30, 2014. So please remember to redeem your UGC codes before that date.
Related to the UGC product retirement, UltimatePoints (UPoints) will also be shut down. The last day to redeem your UPoints will be October 31, 2014.
Please note that some games might stop accepting Ultimate Game Cards and UPoints before the retirement dates so be sure to redeem your cards and points sooner rather than later!
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Important News! UltimatePoints are being discontinued
PlaySpan will be discontinuing UltimatePoints (Upoints) later this year. As part of our business focus, we have decided to terminate our own branded virtual currency and focus on enabling and supporting our merchants branded in-game currencies.
The last day to redeem your UPoints will be October 31, 2014.So please remember to redeem your UltimatePoints before that date.
In addition and related to our business focus, we will also be retiring Ultimate Game Card (UGC). For more info on the UGC retirement please go to www.ultimategamecard.com
and it goes from bad to worse. now they have removed playspan/ultimatepay entirely without first adding another way to use paypalOfficial Response from SE on Lodestone
[Important] Regarding Ultimate Game Card and Ultimate Points
This is a notice to all customers who use PlaySpan’s Ultimate Game Card or UltimatePoints as a method of payment to purchase Crysta.
As you already may be aware, PlaySpan will be retiring the Ultimate Game Card and UltimatePoints. This means these 2 options will no longer be offered as a payment method for purchasing Crysta. The last day to redeem retail Ultimate Game Card codes will be September 30, 2014 and the last day to redeem your UltimatePoints will be October 31, 2014. For additional information regarding the retirement of these options, please visit the appropriate link below.
Ultimate Game Card: http://www.ultimategamecard.com/
UltimatePoints: http://www.ultimatepay.com/
In light of this news, we are also working with payment providers to increase the number of payment solutions we can offer.
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[Important] Removal of PlaySpan payment options
This is a notice to all customers who use PlaySpan as a method of payment to purchase Crysta.
As you already may be aware, PlaySpan retired the Ultimate Game Card and UltimatePoints at the end of September 2014. This means it is no longer possible to purchase Crysta using these 2 options.
The last day to redeem retail Ultimate Game Card codes was September 29, 2014 but UltimatePoints can be redeemed up until October 31, 2014. For additional information regarding the retirement of these options and using your remaining UltimatePoints, please visit the appropriate link below.
Ultimate Game Card: http://www.ultimategamecard.com/
UltimatePoints: http://www.ultimatepay.com/
In light of this news, we have also decided to remove all PlaySpan payment options from the Mog Station and Square Enix Account Management System with immediate effect. We'd like to apologise for the sudden removal of these features but would like to reassure all customers that we still offer a varied range of payment options for the purchase of Crysta or subscription payments.
We continue to work with payment providers to increase the number of payment solutions we can offer you. Please keep checking announcements for the latest updates.
come on SE get your act together, this will hurt the ability for a lot of people to play the game
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