Question about Continuous payment and crysta

[Inafking]

I realize that if you play long enough, the math works itself out. But if you don't, you won't get your money's worth. Not getting one's money's worth is, frankly, a rip-off.

if it buggs you so much, you should ask them to make an "i'm-quitting-sad-face-chocobo-plush" that you can purchase for 1000 + remaining balance. Remaining balance should never be over $5.

[Covenant]

The crystal system is very skuzzy in my opinion. Your basically taking extra money out of your account were your making interest on it and giving it to SE/3rd party billing to their accounts(were thousands of players are also giving them) to make interest for the companies themselves. Interest in a single transation might not be all that much but when multiplied by thousands of accounts will make ALOT of extra Gil while providing NO service for that money.

SE, I'm really disappointed that you went this route. I'll still pay, my opinion of this company has dropped a lot. This was one of the reasons I dropped FFXIV service. Hiding behind a buy and swap scheme is belittling to your company.

Just to illustrate, anyone ever see Superman III with Richard Prior? In it Mr Prior lept on a scheme where he wrote a program that funneled all the "remainders" of pennies to a single account. I forget the exact amount, but in o e day he had a few millions. This is the same sort of scheme SE.

[Inafking]

anyone ever see Superman III with Richard Prior?

Hackers was a better movie with the same plot. In any case, the amount they get is less than $5 and that's only when you quit.

Protip:
Don't quit.

-- Edit --
Swordfish is even better still.

[xbobx]

Patrik there is leftover if you decide to quit, but that is not the real problem. the real problem is they are fully capable of allowing you to just pay the same amount, they will lie to us, but we know for sure now that jp can do this. If they can there is zero excuse for us to be able to, it is just SE being greedy, disrespectful and lazy.

[Patrik]

hahaha... makes me think of Office Space

but its just like xbox points, PSN points, and all that. its a common use for game companies, and you never lose those points. but yes the remainders frequently never get used and gives them extra money. this whole new setup isn't too much of an issue for me, and i like that i can use paypal now, but asking to take out the exact amount of crysta for what will now be their most used service for crysta (before now it was just for security token, since XIV doesn't charge) is far from an outrageous request. i hope SE can look into doing this, as it will, apparently, make a lot of people happy

[Unaisis]

Well am happy i will have to deactivate my characters this month due to moving >.> hopefully when i have time to play again, they will have a better way for paying with crysta >.>

[Fusionx]

PSN points

PSN doesn't have "points" They have a 5 dollar minimum that gets added to your wallet and then it'll finish your purchase price to the penny. And it uses dollars, not some weird point system you have to worry about converting.

[Patrik]

sorry, yea its not actually points. though it also has common issues. i've bought several things that end with 99 cents so i have around 8cents sitting in my PSN wallet. was just pointing out that this left over thing isn't just being done by SE, but nor does that justify it.

[Coops]

Care to explain why Japanese players are allowed to pay directly by CC still (as seen in this SS: http://www.playonline.com/home/polshift/imgs/img08.jpg ) while everyone else has been left with C&B? or is it that you don't want to piss your jp customers off and don't care for anyone else?

thanks

[Bilonn]

ClickandBuy allows the exact charge option that can just be done automatically every month as usual (if i'm understanding that all correctly), though at the moment, crysta can't be purchased like that.

Correction to what you said:

ClickandBuy allows the exact charge option, which reoccuringly bills your exact charge (plus a 3.9% processing fee each time).

So, for example:
The basic $12.95 (one character) will cost you $13.46 a month. Mine (six characters for $17.95) would cost me $18.65.

I'll stick with Crysta.

Here's hoping they either add:
A: An option to use credit cards in SE account page direct (as the Japanese accounts can)
B: An option to allow your account to autobuy Crysta using a PayPal account