in light of all the payment raging, (( must read ))

[Byrth]

This could be a new solution to getting rid of all the previous fuckups. You know, to streamline the payment process.

If those people do that, then this is a good excuse of them to quit, now is it? I don't understand how anyone can pay for something and not use it at all.

How is moving from
* "I give you my CC info and you charge me"
* "I make a shell account. Then I use an online payment service to access my shell account. Then I tell the online payment service to buy ___ of a distributor-specific currency. Then I use the distributor-specific currency to maintain my registration every month."
somehow a way to streamline the payment process?


Also, plenty of people pay for monthly services that they don't use. What do you think all the "one free month" introductory offers are for? My mom paid monthly fees for dial-up America Online for something like 2 years after we got cable. People automatically pay for shit they don't need or use all the time simply because they can't be arsed to figure out how to stop it.

[xbobx]

Love when people like Rosina get angry at people for not properly looking into things and in fact they had it all wrong because they themselves didn't properly look into things. Too bad she disappeared, and didn't come in here to apologize that in fact she was wrong.

[Tokiro]

Love when people like Rosina get angry at people for not properly looking into things and in fact they had it all wrong because they themselves didn't properly look into things. Too bad she disappeared, and didn't come in here to apologize that in fact she was wrong.

She probably got ripped off by C&B...

[Tamoa]

Pretty much everyone is raging over nothing. You do not have to use the "click and buy" option that is JUST for crysta. I repeat THAT IS JUST FOR CRYSTA. Go to the square enix website and there is INFACT a payment option to use your credit card. If you actually do some research you would know this. How did I find this out? I Also play final fantasy 14. And accidently hit the credit card payment.

Other options are set up a account with Ultimate pay. This website hosts those ultimate pay cards used by several online games And sell various amounts of points. They Mostly sell $10 or $20 cards in stores. You can also buy stuff on ultimate pay by using paypal. Just agai select the amount of points, $5 for every 500 points. having 10K points being a $100.

These are options one doesn't need to use "click and buy" from.

Please stop the raging over such a stupid thing. Instead of being lazy like the ff14 crowd please look into your options.

Thank you have a nice day.

Going to repeat what others have already pointed out - you are wrong.

Yes I can use my Visa card - VIA ClickAndBuy. I just did this earlier today and there was no option to pay directly via any debit or credit card. As soon as I clicked on Visa, I had to make a ClickAndBuy account.

[Korpg]

How is moving from
* "I give you my CC info and you charge me"
* "I make a shell account. Then I use an online payment service to access my shell account. Then I tell the online payment service to buy ___ of a distributor-specific currency. Then I use the distributor-specific currency to maintain my registration every month."
somehow a way to streamline the payment process?


Also, plenty of people pay for monthly services that they don't use. What do you think all the "one free month" introductory offers are for? My mom paid monthly fees for dial-up America Online for something like 2 years after we got cable. People automatically pay for shit they don't need or use all the time simply because they can't be arsed to figure out how to stop it.

We have been having issues with payment from PoL for, what, the last year or so?

This new change could mean that somebody has either hacked into the system but haven't stolen anything, or more likely the new rules issued by banks and World Bank has made it almost impossible for it to be effective to keep the old system in play without overhauling the entire system. Which is what they are doing, but they (as in SE) has chosen the cheaper method. I mean, why go all out on a product that is dying?

Also, laziness is not an excuse to stop payment on anything. You can't blame the companies for people being too lazy to click a few buttons.

[Byrth]

Okay, so basically you're entirely wrong and unwilling to admit it.

This is a self-serving action by SE that (probably) doesn't even serve themselves because people *are* too lazy to spend a night setting up three new accounts to continue paying them.

[Romanova]

We have been having issues with payment from PoL for, what, the last year or so?

This new change could mean that somebody has either hacked into the system but haven't stolen anything, or more likely the new rules issued by banks and World Bank has made it almost impossible for it to be effective to keep the old system in play without overhauling the entire system.

you realize that this system has been in place for more than a year right?

[MarkovChain]

Overall, infinitely more complicated than giving them my credit card and telling them to charge me once a month.

4 remarks.

(1) The old system that we all know was globally retarded. It was a headache for a new player to figure out HOW to input your code then the CC info to play the game. You have to click 15 submenu in a laggy viewer and to understand the terms they use for "account" (handle, content ID, codes, optional services ...). There has never been a direct way when you start the game for the first time to "input codes"+"billing info".

(2) Due to their previous paiement system failing, I had to use my new card as debt card to pay every 3 months since it was not accepted as automatic payement every month.


(3) It took me 5 minutes total going from the POL site "how to" to the email confirmation that I was transferred.

(4) Overall the security is definitely increased. I had a subframe pop inside click and buy window where my bank asked confirmation with a code sent to my phone.

Overall It's pretty easy. If you ever managed to start the game in less than 2 hours the first time you bought FFXI then your are good with less than 5 minutes. At least that worked for me and mdk. I'm sure they had way to many problems with bank starting to refuse automatic payement and such without increased security. Not a surprise since pol is the same as 2002. So they decided to use professionals instead. I don't think there is a way to avoid this on the internetz anymore. I used to buy stuff online by just providing CC info upon payement, but now the same sites want scans of ID card, CC card, the bank asks for confirmation inside the browsers, etc.

[Korpg]

you realize that this system has been in place for more than a year right?

I wasn't given the option to switch over my account info until the 27th of July. And I had to reissue my information earlier this month because my old card expires at the end of this month.

As far as I know, only the 3D secure was in effect. Give me information as to state that this new system that we are on has been in effect for the past year, and I shall retract my statement. Because I have been paying from PoL since I first started this game.

[Korpg]

Plus, I love the excuse "you don't agree with me so you must be wrong."