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It makes sense that the most valuable items are no longer giftable if people are literally having their credit cards stolen and used to buy them for x amount of people. There's a bigger picture here that kind of needs to be looked at. If there's a better solution then fair enough but this was probably the quickest way to find a fix while they work on a longterm solution. Sorry some people who wanted to steal people's information ruined it for everyone for now.
Call the Vatican and tell them the world is ending. We agree for once.
I know, shocking, aint it :p:p
Hating the new mog station restrictions.
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10-26-2022, 12:48 PMVelKallor
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10-26-2022, 12:59 PMWingaleThank you for your clarification, that's help a lotQuote:
Originally Posted by Stormcaster
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10-26-2022, 01:12 PMArzalisThis wasn't the reason given by SE and it has no logic to it. If what you're saying is true, they would just turn off gifting period, not only on specific items.Quote:
Originally Posted by LianaThorne
I mean, they're literally telling us the only reason we can't gift mounts, minions, and emotes with the new change is because they're single use. I dunno why people are trying to say it's about anything else when they were pretty clear on why both this and the friends list change was implemented. -
10-26-2022, 01:30 PMJamieRoseSqueenix certainly didn't make it sound like they explored any other options. They just went with the easiest one and community backlash be damned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deveryn
This is pretty much par for the course given other recent controversies that have occurred because of Squeenix being tone deaf to what their customers want. -
10-26-2022, 02:07 PMAmarandeMore anxiously, it's almost certainly not SE's first really big chargeback event, either, which may have put them on especially high alert.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deveryn
Don't forget the big panic of 2017, where thanks to them taking so long (it would take this event to spur them to do so) to implement a shopping cart on Mog Station, they received an avalanche of chargebacks in early Stormblood during a MS sale. So one might wonder just how close SE may in fact really be to being cut off by their payment provider :(
Their payment processor status may even now thus very well, unbeknownst to us customers, be serious enough to justify actively attempting to slow down the amount of purchase activity from any given customer, because if you recall the Stormblood incident, the reason there were so many chargebacks was actually because of several card issuing banks adopting heuristic fraud checking that, if the algorithm decided the pattern of charges was sufficiently "suspicious," would actually automatically charge back the transactions, often literally without the card holder's consent or even notification (resulting in further chaos as often the first notification of this having gone wrong would be affected players suddenly receiving emails notifying them they had been banned from FFXIV, with an arduous account recovery procedure ahead of them at best).
Since there's a cart now, personal purchases are largely no longer subject to this worry, but imagine somebody buying several gifts in a short frame of time for different people, in different transactions: oops, here we go again! -
10-26-2022, 02:09 PMDeverynOkay, victim. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by JamieRose
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10-26-2022, 03:32 PMGember
In case it was not mentioned; The past 7 months the lodestone has been giving us updates about being aware of suspicious links, had taken action against RMT, and requested us to change our passwords in a very frequent manner. The reason why is simply because there is a surge of accounts getting hacked into and their credit card information is getting stolen because they chose to "save" their payment options. Because the owner of the cards are not buying these mogstation codes; they request money back, and the payment processors are noticing the huge surge of this. If Square Enix does not get that under control; they won't be able to do business.. at all. Thus they had to take this massive step with the Mogstation that of course made everyone upset.
I know it sucks, but there was a legit reason for it. If anything; be mad at the hackers, RMT dealers, and people buying from them. They are the ones causing these problems in the first place.
Oh and by the way; don't save your payment options people! Also maybe get a one time password as well! -
10-26-2022, 03:47 PMHasratStarted thinking along this line before I even managed to open the thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deveryn
This isn't the sort of decision a company makes on a whim. Something forced their hand. It could be temporary while they work on improving or redesigning systems. But it might also take a minute for them to develop any viable means of authentication that don't lead us back here.
This has "orders came in from the higher ups" written all over it. -
10-26-2022, 04:07 PMVelKallorI am SO stealing that line.Quote:
They make you sign an NDA that would break your foot if you dropped it.
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10-26-2022, 06:58 PMAnzaman
Friend was planning to get me Christmas present from MogStation, but now with the new limitations they can't do that anymore.