Japanese account

So i just came back to this game. The account that i created was a Japanese one, but they don't accept foreign credit cards anymore. What can i do so that i can pay my subscription fee? Thanks

Hm. Maybe JP Game Time Cards or crysta?

and i don't live in japan

Contact account services and see if you can get it transferred to a region you want. Also you should be able to buy regional time cards from the SE store.

Secondly, as you don't live in Japan, why did you create a Japanese account?

If all else fails, unless you already bought the expansion, may be worth just buying it again and making a new account in your preferred region seeing as you are still low, just checked lodestone. 41 PLD 15 CNJ which will only take a couple or 4 days to catch back up on.

they don't do regional transfer, is there anywhere that i can buy japan game time card online?

You can't use the Crysta option? You can buy Crysta via PayPal that way.

for crysta, i don't see the paypal option, they only accept
クレジットカード VISA MASTER JCB (japanese credit card i guess)
WebMoney / Crysta専用WebMoney WebMoney / Crysta専用WebMoney (not sure what that is)
auかんたん決済 (not sure what that is)

start over? not sure how far you got but if u cant use anything to pay for the sub your kinda sol I would contact there support first atleast though

ya i contacted them, but they said there is nothing they can do about it

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Originally Posted by KefL0

for crysta, i don't see the paypal option

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I don't think there is a paypal option. They took it away and haven't added it back, iirc. Something like that. My life would be way easier if they had added it back :c

they take VISA and MASTER...is your card a visa or mastercard?

go to the web money site and buy it for your account?
http://www.webmoney.jp/

ya, mine is a visa, but they only take credit cards that issued from japan

Have you tried importer sites? I only know of two off the top of my head (Play Asia and NCSX) but I'm sure there's more that might carry Japanese time cards.

For the hassle, wouldnt it be easier to just buy another copy of the game and start over?

Why did you buy a Japanese account if you are not in japan, and are not Japanese?

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Originally Posted by Averax

Why did you buy a Japanese account if you are not in japan, and are not Japanese?

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IMO Maybe because he think if you play on JP server you should make JP account.

because i was in japan back then =/

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Originally Posted by Elim

I don't think there is a paypal option. They took it away and haven't added it back, iirc. Something like that. My life would be way easier if they had added it back :c

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They added the option to buy Crysta with Paypal, but I'm not sure if the Japanese side accepts Paypal for it.

This is also really quite bad of SE. Way too many restrictions on players, and that in itself could be ok, but not even being able to change/move things when perfectly justified? I wonder if they realise how alienating this is. :|

Good luck OP, if that's really so, buying the game again and starting over indeed seems to be the only and best option for you. :(

Looks like it's an option, at least to NA accounts.

Step 1,
http://i.imgur.com/1818Nvy.png

Step 2,
http://i.imgur.com/SjvT2lj.png

Right there...


Edit: I somehow completely missed page 2 of this topic.

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Originally Posted by KefL0

because i was in japan back then =/

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Yeah, thats pretty bad of them if they don't have a way to handle transfers. People do move, after all.

(Lots of region-locked things have this problem, for people who move internationally its a big headache)

I think only the NA account doesn't have all these hassle. I can pay by paypal, foreign credit cards and what not. SE NA account can even send OTP verification to my foreign mobile number. It is only EU and JP accounts have these problem, with usually JP having the most restrictions. Just not only SE - a lot of online JP stores and stuffs can't accept foreign credit cards at all, even if the card label is a Japanese major issuer like JCB.

OP: The same thing exactly happened to me and your only options are:

a) Get a trustworthy/reliable japanese friend to buy gametime cards for you.
b) Use webmoney, however this ends up costing way more than a month sub.
c) Star over in a new account.

I had to start again losing everything I had farmed in 1 year, been playing a lot lately to catch up. They don't even sell digital game time cards on the official SE JP store, unlike NA/EU ones, which bothered me. Couldn't even find game time cards on amazon, ebay, yesasia and those kind of sites selling products to export. Support would tell you they can't/won't change your account region and nothing else. My suggestion to SE would be, sell only DIGITAL copies and game time cards of every region on all regions, because people sometimes move countries and whatnot, losing their accounts. I don't ask for physical ones, as they probably won't do shipping for that, but digital ones shouldn't have any problem.

PS: OP, you'll also need a Japanese Heavensward copy.

Yup, the Japanese payment system is the worst. It's extra frustrating because they USED TO accept foreign credit cards then suddenly they changed it. (And even if you have jp credit card, it has to have a certain security system activated, I can FINALLY use mine.)

No paypal, crysta is annoying to buy because you have to use webmoney... bleh. So as long as I want to play this game I must stay in Japan, haha.

They are so behind in some respects, paypal please.

seems like starting a new account is the better option, anyway thanks for the help, guys