Crysta expired

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Yeah, 1.0s subscription buying was a pain. We had to go through some sketchy site to buy it since they couldn't directly take sub payments.....

Crysta is a remnant of that.

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Yeah but your earlier link of expired would have applied to me since it has been well over two years. Curious how they work expired. I think the OP should just try to buy whatever they can and see if it works anyways. SE doesn't have the best designed store it might still work.

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

Yeah but your earlier link of expired would have applied to me since it has been well over two years. Curious how they work expired. I think the OP should just try to buy whatever they can and see if it works anyways. SE doesn't have the best designed store it might still work.

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Well, that link is for the EU, the NA site doesn't mention it at all.

So it may be different depending on region, and also when the crysta was purchased

The problem is, there is no warning when you go to the “add crysta” page. Nothing tells you it going expired in two years. Nobody knows it going to expire.

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Originally Posted by shantani

The problem is, there is no warning when you go to the “add crysta” page. Nothing tells you it going expired in two years. Nobody knows it going to expire.

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I still don't even understand why anyone would buy Crysta, let alone 9000 of it that goes unused for 2 years. All it does is add a completely unnecessary step to any purchase or subscription that you could instead just pay for directly.

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Originally Posted by Darkstride

I still don't even understand why anyone would buy Crysta, let alone 9000 of it that goes unused for 2 years. All it does is add a completely unnecessary step to any purchase or subscription that you could instead just pay for directly.

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I had to think about why 9000. My guess is 6 months is easily over 9000. But the two years, has me confused.Two years ago plus a free month would put it at shadowbringers. My theory is either they played shadowbringers and decided to take a break. Or maybe bought a collected edition and disliked it. But now that the game is all hyped and not much else to play they want to come back.



Maybe I am the weird one. I never prebuy game cards or time unless I am sure. Even then I wait till I get the notification last day you need to pay us. But some people get so excited and buy ahead and regret it. I am actually more curious about the situation that led to this since NA seems to not be part of expiring system.

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Originally Posted by shantani

Nobody knows it going to expire.

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I'm an exception then. I did know. Never buy something wihout reading the conditions is a thing everyone should do. Never "imagine", never "suppose", always check before purchase.

What the hell, an expiration date on account currency used for purchasing game time? That's pretty damned bogus. I mean, crysta was a stupid system in the first place, but way to make it low as well.

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Originally Posted by Moonlite

So crysta is a leftover system when either the CC companies or SE didn't want to deal with each other. They had this really weird convoluted system through a third party. The crysta was also in weird amounts that did not match subs or the game cards you used to buy crysta that is why I had a few leftover from when SE and CC decided to play nice again. Why anyone would still be buying crysta I have no idea.

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Crysta are still required as SE still does not offers neiter a direct account debit option (which is very common in the EU) nor a paypal option. People without credit cards (a lot of people in the EU don't have those) need this payment option.

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Originally Posted by TalithaSolarien

Crysta are still required as SE still does not offers neiter a direct account debit option (which is very common in the EU) nor a paypal option. People without credit cards (a lot of people in the EU don't have those) need this payment option.

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True many people in the EU do not have credit cards but the vast majority have debit cards that take funds directly from their bank accounts.

I can't speak for rest of EU but in Sweden we mainly has a Debit card from MC or Visa. But you don't need crysta to pay for stuff - you can just enter your card info and get billed that way.

So generally speaking, if you can purchase stuff online with your debit card, you can pay your subscription on mogstation no issues.

I used to have to use Crysta when there was issues between my at the time bank and SE and was solved when i changed bank.