50% price increase for subscription

[Aphugel]

By switching the currency I pay in from US$ to Euro, SE has increased the amount it costs me to play this game by roughly 50%.
I live in NZ, and the billing went from $20 and a few cents to $30 in NZ $.
I am strongly considering leaving.
If SE wants to SERIOUSLY piss us off and shut down the game, why don't they simply say so?
They are doing all they can.

This is in NO WAY accpetable.

It stinks of terminal arrogance, which has recently beset quite a few JP companies.
Death wish is it?

I'll be sorry to go, but if this does not get fixed, I will.

Cheers

Aphugel

[Alhanelem]

It won't be fixed, in part because you're not even in an officially supported region. You should have gotten an NA account instead of an EU account.

Cya.

[Panthera]

I think it's all kinds of messed-up that this has happened to you. I'm sorry your leaving is under these circumstances. Best of luck.

[Mirage]

I live in Europe and I've been paying in USD up until now, I guess I will also be hit by this increase in subscription fee.

[Aphugel]

It won't be fixed, in part because you're not even in an officially supported region. You should have gotten an NA account instead of an EU account.

Cya.

They didn't give me a choice.

[Olor]

ouch. That sucks.

[Alhanelem]

They didn't give me a choice.

How did you not have a choice? Every EU player who wanted to play before it came out in the EU simply got an NA account.

The key point here is SE didn't "raise the price." It's the price you technically should have been paying from the beginning. HOWEVER, it's not something that should really be changed after people have been used to the previous situation for years

SHouldn't people be paying for things in their own currency in general though? I thought the only people paying in USD were EU players who imported the game before it came out in the EU.

It's unfortunate, but I highly doubt it's some kind of sinister plan to make people quit.

(Don't rail on me for this- it does suck, I completely agree with that. I'm simply asking the question of why everyone got to pay with a better currency to begin with. What if the EU got the best price? We'd all be wishing we could pay in euros. )

[Sparthos]

Regardless of what should have been, SE had him as a customer and im sure they didn't care if his money "wasn't supported".

[Alhanelem]

Don't get me wrong, It does suck; but it's a stretch to call it some kind of conspiracy of forcing people to quit so they can kill the game. FFXI still makes them plenty of money, they have no reason to actiively "Kill" it.

[Aphugel]

They charge u according to where ur CC is resitered. U CAN not get a "country of ur coice" account.