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they're probly running around with their heads cut off or butts on fire (possibly both) just trying to cover the billing snafus that just happened.
Which does not bode well for us....each day they have to focus on what went wrong with the new billing procedures may be a day's delay looking into bringing a direct payment option into play.
hope they've stocked up on the Red Bull... it's gonna be a loooong week for those guys.
Joining the no ClickandBuy bandwagon. The company has had issues with privacy in the past. And I never understood why a company would want to outsource their billings to a third party. It just eats into the profits. >.>
But all of the reasons have been said here and so much more. If SE is really forcing this upon us, then I don't know what I'm going to do. I refuse to use ClickandBuy. And Crysta would be a horrible replacement since I'll never be able to buy the exact amount I need to pay for a month, nor can I set up recurring payments. I understand that the company wants a more centralized system for when FF14 is up and running at full speed, but really it's just turning into a giant hassle to the consumers.
If we all stand together and say no on this issue, we have the power to change their minds. I know it doesn't seem like it, but they can't keep the game going without us, the people paying. We have that ability.
SE, please reconsider this insanity with ClickandBuy and Crysta.
And a suggestion to offer, why not offer a 3/6/9/12 month membership like other MMO's? If you buy 12 months, you get a discount over paying once a month, every month. I would make the effort into buying Crysta for 12 months if I got a slight discount in order to move to the new system. And! No more worries about payment because it'll be taken care of. I don't have to worry about logging in every month to add more Crysta to the account. Just throwing it out there.
HMM....the discount idea could be taken little further: let crysta be a discount period.
If they are looking to do it in rounded dollars, then round it down for the subscriptions. This way, it's $12 USD for your first account if you are buying by crysta. This elimnates a large portion of the waste (making the fee a flat xx.00 for everyone), and would encourage more bulk buying up front. People could feel good about grabbing say $60 worth online to prepay in 5x lots (for single account, numbers would vary based on mules and such). The players get a discount for buying further in advance, while more easily breaking even on the purchased/spent ratios, and SE has a spot of walking change to work with to make changes for a few months.
eh... what am I thinking.... that might actually work to everyone's benefit somehow, so that won't happen.
If you guys read the new TOS then you'd know that SE are planning on making discounted advanced payments. They added a whole bunch of "IF"s surrounding the possibility.
eh.. think those "IF"'s have been in there from day one.
Edit:
Yep... article 5.2, subsection (d) of the printed agreement that came with my first disc clearly states they have the right to change the fee at anytime, and that effective the first billing day after the announced date the new fee's take effect you are responsible to pay those fees for access if you do not terminate your account beforehand.
In short, they've maintained some sort of clause specifically indicating they can make changes to the pricing scheme at their discretion.
As a whole, the entire agreemeent is subject to SE's right to modify the agreement in any way at any time as they see fit in the same manner--they just have to post it and provide a future date to give us time to review the new terms and opt out prior to it taking effect.
I'd like to thank SE for this billing process; it's substantially helping/going to help with my abyssea crowding problem...till servers are merged again at least. So you see, they do listen. Let's not be so critical.
Even before the end of August deadline, out of like 10 ppl i know who still play this game, 3 found their IDs cancelled (one had CC expired). Rather than bother with the headache since they can't activate on pol anymore, they are just letting them stay cancelled indefinitely. Constructive feedback: ppl don't like to be inconvenienced.
my opinion:
using a 3rd party for payment is like giving a stranger in a backalley my CC + pin and tell him to go over to a shop to buy me something.
nobody would do that irl, but why are people still signing in to those 3rd partys? :O
Click and Buy desn't seem to like any of my 4 email addresses. Why change something that has always worked. SE really needs to work this out and give us another option!!! I hate for this to be the end of playing FFXI, I really do. I would miss it, but i play other games as well. I refuse to buy Crysta.
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Some people need their E-Crack and will justify any shady business, they'll even jump in the fire to become white knights for SE.Quote:
my opinion:
using a 3rd party for payment is like giving a stranger in a backalley my CC + pin and tell him to go over to a shop to buy me something.
nobody would do that irl, but why are people still signing in to those 3rd partys? :O
They are just holding onto your 95 cents or w/e because its trivial to you but its a huge amount of interest for them annually. I dont like this set up, but my only real issue with it is that its causing tons of people to lose their accounts.