Petition: clickandbuy the only way no,thanks.

[Upokupo]

What i'm REALLY interested in, is to see SE's subscription numbers before and after this change.
I'd love to continue playing, but I'm not willing to jump through hoops so that SE can charge me more money. I play with a small group of RL friends and we all feel the same way, none of us are renewing our accounts in September. I imagine we're not the only people that feel this way. Not that it makes a difference...haha.

That's the exact situation with me and my rl friends. Lookin' at this and realizing it's not worth the hassle/bother. We may feel differently in the future but not any time soon. So, yeah there are others

[Kariel]

Just canceled and so did my friend.

Speaking with the only language SE will understand.

Take care everyone.

[mistmonster]

Just canceled and so did my friend.

Speaking with the only language SE will understand.

Take care everyone.

Yup same. I give up and take 6 accounts with me. Was waiting until the last second for SE to do something but our area is being threatened by a hurricane and may get too busy with work to pay attention to the deadline.

Please SE take my credit card like you used to, like you do for the JPs and like every *real* business anywhere. I'd probably forgive you

[laos278]

I think this will start to happen for a lot of the distruntled customers now, they will turn loyal long standing subscribers into fairweather friends. They will take people that have paid monthly non-stop for years into people that will only pay that month if they feel Square have done enough to warrant the fee.

Yeah there is quite a lot of players that logged on only for a few weeks or less after what is now called major update, then disappeared as they got bored again. The difference is they'd leave the auto billing. I even know two guys that haven't barely logged on since lv80 cap, yet didn't cancel. Think they'll bother adding crysta? They won't even be around to see /servmes or whatnot. Knowing them they will log on in november (2012), see some pop up message "blah blah transfer SE account", laugh at how senseless it is, and log back off. Sure, there will be some who will buy a ton of crysta without even thinking, but it won't come close to making up for this loss.

Now for the fair weather types it'll be "Hey there's lv95 think i'll buy $20 crysta" > a month later they don't bother adding more, till the next update. This will have a huge impact as the updates presumably become less frequent, after the timeline anyway. I may end up doing this since i can't get my friends to even bother making SE account. I'd still like to try out lv99, but keep adding crysta till december or later? SE has never seemed to understand the trickle-down effect of these things, whether hacking or bans or billing fiasco, how friends no longer being on makes the game less enjoyable.

Also in the past, it was annoying to cancel and reactivate due to double billing and the end of month maints. Now we can just, for example, not add crysta until Sept 20 or whenever the update is. Then you still get a month's worth rather than the last 10 days. In that sense i guess it does benefit some players, but doesn't seem at all like wise business decision. I'm curious, there has been a (very) few posts defending this, but i think none even takes a stab at how this "improves security" or whatever that line was about the reason for it.

[Niyariko]

Does this mean we won!?.. I might continue to play ffxi yea, and now might give ffxiv another look
and hope direct CC payment option is in by mid fall.

http://www.playonline.com/pcd/topics...78/detail.html

You've Spoken and We've Heard You
You, the community, have clearly expressed your dissatisfaction with our billing system transition—and we are listening. We now understand that the options we presented you did not meet the level of service you have come to expect from Square Enix, so we have been working hard to address these concerns.

Accordingly, we will be extending the transfer cut-off date until we are able to implement the following improvements:
- New credit card payment options for Crysta [Available Now]
- The ability to specify exactly how much Crysta you want to buy [Early Fall]
- New recurring payment credit card options [Mid Fall]

We hope these steps show our ongoing commitment to you, our fans. It is our goal to make the FINAL FANTASY XI experience as fun and rewarding as possible.

Also in the days to come we'll reveal details for new offers and incentives to help ease your transition to the new system.

We sincerely thank you for your continued support of FINAL FANTASY XI.

Yasu Kurosawa
FINAL FANTASY XI North American Online Producer

Now SE need to update POL and enable back the CC payment for those of us having credit card expires this past Aug so we can update our CC info and continue for us to pay them money ...

[Niyariko]

New credit card payment options for Crysta [Available Now]

Still only CnB and Ulimatepay options available in SEAM.... I thought they said available now, where do i type in my CC info to buy crysta!? Can anyone figure out?

[Aver]

Still only CnB and Ulimatepay options available in SEAM.... I thought they said available now, where do i type in my CC info to buy crysta!? Can anyone figure out?

Click on crysta, then ultimatepay and it'll give you the option of entering in your CC directly, along with paypal and "one more option available"

edit: and I wouldn't call it winning tbh, since it was never a game to begin with. Just good business to keep your customers happy, which I see someone noticed finally

[mistmonster]

OMG OMG OMG I wake up to Hurricane Irene tracking further away from us and THIS!? Should I play the lotto today?

WOOO

The transfer date has been extended so those of us that didn't transfer don't have to worry about it this month? I read it twice, but I'm not awake yet

[Aver]

OMG OMG OMG I wake up to Hurricane Irene tracking further away from us and THIS!? Should I play the lotto today?

WOOO

The transfer date has been extended so those of us that didn't transfer don't have to worry about it this month? I read it twice, but I'm not awake yet

Yes to all.

And send me a portion when you win.

[Niyariko]

I wonder if Yasu Kurosawa reads these threads lol