non-japanese players with japanese account, paying with webmoney

[katoplepa]

hello.
I'm sure there are some other players out there with JP accounts.
we are some sort of heroes because we gone mad with the webmoney.jp system to keep our accounts alive, after they decided to don't accept no more the non-japanese c.c.

now POL won't let us buy extensions, no more, our accounts will freeze the July 31.
what we have to do? I asked info in the JP session and a GM helped me, saying they are preparing a new feature in the SquareEnix management system (jp): we'll have to link our POL id in the S.E.id (another type of link, not the token link) then we'll be able to buy extensions again, with webmoney or crysta I think.

because all of this will be in jp, I ask for help, if someone of you can post a screenshots guide of HOW we have to do all, thank you.

p.s.
pay my fee in a videogame: it had to be an easy process, but with SE JP it's always getting more complicated every years... I want to pay, but tell me HOW!!

[Octaviane]

They won't be releasing details until late in July.

[Dragoy]

Not quite certain what you mean with "we'll have to link our POL id in the S.E.id" but I'm assuming you were told about the Square Enix Account.

What is a Square Enix Account?

A Square Enix account is a free service provided for authentification in all of Square Enix's online services. Besides its use in all future online services, one can also associate multiple IDs from current services to a single Square Enix account and enjoy features only available to Square Enix account holders.

After obtaining an account, users can easily associate PlayOnline games such as FINAL FANTASY XI with their account.

You can start the registering process at:

• https://secure.square-enix.com/accou.../svc/register?

Or rather than following a links from some guy at the forum, follow the links from your favourite official PlayOnline or Square Enix site (such as this; check the logo at the top left corner).


I'm sorry if I misunderstood your issues(s), but I do hope this helps!

[katoplepa]

I have already linked my POL id with a new S.E. id, and even the registration on this forum already requires this, but maybe I can't explain well my problem, I'm not NA, anyway I hope Square will release details soon, because webmoney payement system is blocked now and I can't buy August, but if they will improve a new feature "late july" I think is late.

Greetings, katoplepa

Due to the preparation for the migration to Square Enix Account, the payment of monthly fee from August of 2011 and beyond cannot be processed on PlayOnline Viewer by using WebMoney.

In case the payment method is set to WebMoney, migration process needs to be completed before the payment can be made. Once the migration period begins, the monthly fee payment can no longer be made through PlayOnline Viewer. So please complete the migration process before the subscription ends.
* Once the migration process is completed, your PlayOnline account will migrate to the Square Enix Account that your PlayOnline account is currently linked to.

Migration period is scheduled to begin in late July.
Specific details on the migration process will be provided within the Square Enix Account Migration site, which is scheduled to become available in late July.
Until the announcements are made, please wait patiently.

Thank you.

anyone with JP account out there ?

[Dragoy]

Ah yes, I didn't think about the forum requiring that at all (I registered and linked my POL account with SqEX account when it was first possible, more than a year(?) ago.

About this migration, yeah, that is not yet possible and further information on how it will be done you will have to wait just like the rest of us.


You did explain it well enough, I was just still more or less asleep. :]

[Firesped]

They said in the FAQ that when this goes live, they will allow people to link pol account from any region to any other region.
The issue is that our accounts are already linked to the Japan region SE account. And you can't unlink a POL account once it is linked.

What would be nice for us tho, is if Square Enix will let us transfer regions on the SE account.

[katoplepa]

yes, we missed the opportunity.
anyway, when we have to buy expansion pack, I think we was having to buy it from JP anyway...

what is your payment method? I'm with webmoney because they don't accept non-JP credit cards, and I'm waiting to see how we can keep on with webmoney...

[Dragoy]

I'm linking to a thread on the Japanese side in behalf of bungiefan who is currently unable to use this forum and asked me to /poke it a bit elsewhere.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...にどのように支払うのですか？


I don't quite understand how this kind of issues are even possible, and how the support these players are given does not seem very... well, supportive. It's frustrating to even me who is un-affected by this.

I'm sorry I can't really help with this, and I wish you all the best of luck and hope the company solves their issues...

[Blackmageviper]

Hi guys.

I just transfered my JP account and everything went smoothly ^^ I'm glad to announce to all us JP account holders living outside Japan that we are now able to continue playing without using Webmoney or having a JP Credit card simply by transfering our account from a Playonline account to a square-enix account ^^

Active Service Accounts
To perform actions regarding automatically continuous options such as characters, please click "Options List."
PlayOnline / FINAL FANTASY XI 1 : IDXXXXXX [JP]

Thank you so much SE ^^

I can finally shutdown my website at www.ffxi-europe.com where i had a how-to guide showing people how to use webmoney for payment ^^

[FrankReynolds]

Thanks for posting that site, that is how i have been paying my bill ever since the whole US credit card debacle. Couldn't have done it without your site.

Any word on how people who have already linked SE accounts are supposed to do this? I really don't want to lose 9 years of progress over a Bad billing process. I don't recall ever being given the option to link my account to a NA Square Enix account, or i surely would have. Where am i supposed to get a Japanese address without actually living in Japan? Please help Q Q