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

[Horadrim]

Congratulations! The rest of us who'd rather not go through a third party and instead pay square directly (with automated billing, no less!) will be over here. ->

(Because regardless of what you think you're doing, you're still going through a third party, and you're still adding extra steps to the process. Kudos to you for wanting to deal with it. I don't.)




Banks are blocking CnB. That alone should be enough. My bank (NFCU) sent me a letter of "suspicious activity" that I had to call and clear up. Chase outright blocks it and you have to pull teeth to get it taken care of.

I doubt this is something they'd do lightly/without reason, and that alone is enough for me.

Haven't been dealing with chase very long, have you?

The reason they block it is probably because its a random charge from a foreign country, the likes of which makes them question the validity of the charges. That aside, I've had similar problems with even domestic charges before -- when I first got my new car I had trouble getting my payments through.

I understand the problem now, though, just saying again that its not just CnB.

Weird, though, I never had any problem signing up with CnB for FFXIV -- they did do that verification payment (the little 1 dollar thing) to make sure it'd go through and I never had an issue. I guess since we haven't paid for the monthly sub I can't be overzealous about that working, though.

According to some posts on Alla it seems some banks either won't allow you to use C&B while others warn customers they're 'shady' .. whether you believe those people posting that is another matter .. and links to web sites listing problems with C&B have also been posted.

They're also rated F at BBB apparently. Plenty of posts around describing problems people have had in other MMO forums too, such as Lord of The Rings: Online, Turbine have been dealing with C&B for some time now.

Banks generally don't like random charges from mildly obscure companies from other countries. That's sort of why Paypal came into existence to begin with, isn't it?

There's another option, right? What exactly's wrong with Crysta? In ability to pay specific amounts? What are the amounts you're limited to?