Direct Payment now available

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Originally Posted by Thainna

Thank you SE!! No more Click & Buy and their damn extra fees!

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What extra fees? None on my end.

Then again, I've never understood the hate for both C&B and Crysta.

Thank God.

Oh, and SE, too. <.<

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Originally Posted by Dreamer

What extra fees? None on my end.

Then again, I've never understood the hate for both C&B and Crysta.

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Crysta is perfectly fine just people thinking it's like Xbox/Wii points, when it's not. C&B has a transaction fee much like if you use an ATM machine (which no one complains about.)

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Originally Posted by Fira_Bug

Sadly there were a LOT of issues with not only crysta but click and buy as well. Everything went through a middle man when life could've been so much easier taking money directly from us. Hell, they probably make more money now that they don't have to pay a middle man. My husband and I already paid for 6 months but the second it's up we are switching to this payment method instead.

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Just because it is transparent it doesn't mean that there is no one in the middle.

There is and there will ALWAYS be someone in the middle. Square Enix isn't a bank and Square Enix never ever took money straight off you, even on FF XI, it wasn't directly taken off you.

I still love the new payment method, seamless :) Less hassle than C&B.

Just thought of somethig, if I have leftover crysta before switching to direct payment...will the crysta be used up first?

Hope all those that couldn't pay now can pay and get in :)

Glad you finally were able to pay Catapult!

This is awesome! Thanks for listening Squeenix!

So I switched immediately after seeing that, thanks a bunch SE. :D

Very surprised there was no VBV/MasterCard Secure Code on there. I take it that Square are comfortable keeping control of that liability themselves. Still, very glad I've been able switch all my transactions over to direct payment.

I never had any issue with C&B. It worked first time and has continued to work and bill me correctly, but I'm happier with a middle-man service being removed. In effect, I'd rather pay Square Enix for a Square Enix service than pay someone else who will pay Square Enix on my behalf for a Square Enix service.

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Originally Posted by Mieck

Very surprised there was no VBV/MasterCard Secure Code on there. I take it that Square are comfortable keeping control of that liability themselves. Still, very glad I've been able switch all my transactions over to direct payment.

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If you mean the three digit nuber on the reverse side of the card, the system definitely asks for that.

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Originally Posted by Mieck

I never had any issue with C&B. It worked first time and has continued to work and bill me correctly, but I'm happier with a middle-man service being removed. In effect, I'd rather pay Square Enix for a Square Enix service than pay someone else who will pay Square Enix on my behalf for a Square Enix service.

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I can't say I had C&B problems either but I set up my account when FFXIV was launched so the recent issues might not have been around back then. I was also unaware of any controversy about the service such as extra fees. I will need to cancel that account though but since it has been over a year since I set up the account, I will need to search back through my emails for the account username!

Direct CC payment is much easier, thanks SE!