Wish this was billed in the local currency :(

Sadly had to cancel my account last night :( I'm in Canada and it bills in USD which is $12.99 per month. Because of the poor exchange rate right now, when I renewed recently for another month, my credit card statement showed $17.41 in CAD for 30 days service. $12.99 I could live with, but now it's almost $20 per month which I don't think it's worth it for this game as that's half my cell phone bill!

Can you get a gametime card? Should be cheaper (not sure thou), also try ebay for cheaper CAD price. Beyond that I would not use their system (thou 20 CAD is less then 20 USD I go there to drink and I spend about the same amount of money even with exchange rate).

(regardless guys it is his money he is the final say on what it gets spent on) Try gamecards thou.

$17.41 CAD is still cheaper than a non-Tuesday ticket to the movies, a meal at a restaurant, a venue ticket, and basically anything else you can do. I'm Canadian too, and even with how bad our dollar is (worst it has ever been), the subscription is still tremendous value from an entertainment per hour point of view.

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$17.41 CAD is still cheaper than a non-Tuesday ticket to the movies, a meal at a restaurant, a venue ticket, and basically anything else you can do. I'm Canadian too, and even with how bad our dollar is (worst it has ever been), the subscription is still tremendous value from an entertainment per hour point of view.

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^^^ What he said. MMOs are the cheapest entertainment out there.

SE's billing methods are very odd. Don't they also charge the same number amount in USD and Euros, despite $X being very different from €X?

Not that weird a lot of video game companies do the same. (not that it makes complete sense)

It's not that it's unaffordable, I get that it's like going to the movies. It's more the fact that for years the exchange rate was pretty much parity, so been used to $12.99, then now it's been going down like crazy at the lowest it has been since 2004 which is why it's like that. It's just getting to be a large difference is all, so just not sure if I play enough anymore to warrant it.

atm its best to go with game time cards (29.99 cnd for 60 days) you can grab them at ebgames not as good as 12.99 but still a bit cheaper than paying through online billing

Edit: Best buy and walmart also sell them it seems so I would assume most chain stores that carry games/gift cards would

You should be complaining to your government/Canadian businesses/economy fairies/etc... about the weak economy. Square has nothing to do with exchange rates.

Also, 5 dollars a month? You must have some crazy tight budgeting skills for that to put you in the red.

Bah, $17 is nothing. I'm paying $26 for the game local currency and when I move to another island it's gonna be around $70 local currency after conversions...so I definitely won't be playing the game then. I live in the Caribbean btw.