Petition: clickandbuy the only way no,thanks.

[Korpg]

I have 2 accounts, 3 characters, 26.90 a month, crysta is purchaseable in 500 increments, the LCM of 26.90 on 500 is 134500, so, until I have purchased and used 134,500 crysta which is 1,345 dollars, or 50 months of game time or 4.1 years in order for me to finally have given the exact proper amount of money

You don't understand Karby's post.

You have a bill for 26.90 per month, you just said that. You buy 3000 crysta. That means each month you have an extra 310 crysta left over. Well, you have a choice next month, you can either buy another 3000 crysta or 2500 crysta. If you buy 3000 crysta, you will have 620 left over. If you buy 2500 crysta, you will have 120 crysta left over. Either way, you still have an account for the 2 months.

Sure, over 4.1 years/50 months, you will pay exactly 1345 dollars, but you know what, so will I. So will Karby. So will anyone else who plays this game.

[Finuve]

Or............. Big or

You could simply purchase 30$ a month worth of Crysta, which is 3.10 more than you would normally pay (well within a healthy budgets spending parameters), and in 9 Months you've generated enough left-over Crysta to pay for 1 month. essentially regaining that 26.90.

Theres a fine line between reasonable complaints (Click and buy sucking ass) and just looking for reasons to bitch. I want it to stay the same as its always been, because this entire thing is an added inconvenience, but as far as inconveniences go, Crysta is the lesser of the evils by a large margin

and yet after those 9 months i still have $1 left over, i dont like overpaying

[Dragoy]

Ever since I met this thing called ClickandBye® when trying to set it up for FFXIV to try out a 'buddycode', it took days and they charged for verifying the account (similar to PayPal), and in the end, they still wanted a copy of my driver's license, or passport and that is where I told them they could use the few € I had given them into a cup of coffee or/and beer, and requested kindly to cancel the account.

I did then notice, that I had 'free Crysta' due to the code I had entered, but there still was no way to get the game installed haha!

Oh well, I had enough of it in the Alpha and Beta phases anyways.


So only option for me is to buy this Crysta nonsense via PlaySpan, Inc. (which I have never heard of) using PayPal® (which I 'luckily' have an account created and used for 1 single payment 3 years ago), and hope that it works.

Not that I'm sure that I will even continue playing after this, though, and this will be the last thread I repeat myself (lol), or so I hope.


I gotta say, I did see what will become of this already when they first announced it, since I had a taste of it via the FFXIV try-out.
I knew exactly how people would react, and I am sure SqEX, for the most part at least, did as well.
It will be interesting to see how it will work out in the end, though.

[Korpg]

and yet after those 9 months i still have $1 left over, i dont like overpaying

Now you are just complaining for the sake of complaining.

[Karbuncle]

and yet after those 9 months i still have $1 left over, i dont like overpaying

I can see your point but seriously, 1$.

I agree this is a retarded hassle and should never be implemented because its a huge inconvenience to their playerbase, especially after so many years of using our current method... But its not as bad as using Click and Buy. I wish it would stay the same but its wishful thinking.

Either way i don't think hoping for it to go back to normal will work, if SE has shown anything in the past its that they really don't give a FK what we think or how we feel about their business choices... Our only other options is quitting.

We could ask them to add more specific Crysta payment amounts, But I doubt they'd listen to that either.

[Finuve]

Now you are just complaining for the sake of complaining.

And ur quick to justify nickle and diming schemes, a dollar may be pretty worthless, but if 400,000 ppl let square have an extra dollar...

Its principle, i wokt buy gift cards or microsoft points for the same reason

[Korpg]

If you are a NA customer, you can keep the old method as long as your bank or card company uses 3D secure and all that jazz. I think this will only affect EU players, since their card companies aren't as reliable and the EU doesn't have a set method of banking regulations.

[Karbuncle]

And ur quick to justify nickle and diming schemes, a dollar may be pretty worthless, but if 400,000 ppl let square have an extra dollar...

Its principle, i wokt buy gift cards or microsoft points for the same reason

They aren't letting them have an extra dollar, the dollar is still yours and in your Crysta account, to be used another day. This isn't shaving anything off the top.

[Romanova]

, and in 9 Months you've generated enough left-over Crysta to pay for 1 month.

I know many people including myself who take breaks from this game to play others (I know for a fact I will be stopping to try KotOR, and who knows where after that? Yes, I may go back to FFXI but I may go back to WoW or Warhammer, or all the other games I enjoy playing). and considering crysta expires after two years this is not necessarily a good method for everyone.

People have a right to complain about this, there is no reason their customers should have to do that work around in the first place.


They want to stay in the MMO field and they're still 100x behind Blizzard when it comes to customer service it's sad.

[Inafking]

I've bought Crysta on 3 occasions using UltimatePay, I don't have any 'account' with them at all.

You know what's weird? They use PayPal and if Square went through PayPal directly, they would probably make more money. BTW, PayPal>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>C&B as far as user satisfaction because people are satisfied when their info is secure.