[Dev] Go Live Billing Options

[AnaviAnael]

I feel fortunate that when I fill my gas tank at Sheetz, I can hop into the store and pick up an Ultimate Gamer Card.

Though, I have to say it ticks me off that I have to do that. I tried making an account with Click and Buy, but got stuck with the verified by visa BS. Apparantly, verified by visa doesn't like debit cards. (Guess I need to get off my lazy butt and get an actual CC lol.) After spending an hour and a half trying to get it fixed, whining and moaning to the boyfriend the whole time (God bless his soul.), I eventually gave up and went with UGCs and crysta. Such a ridiculous ordeal to play a game.

Also, I'm curious, why doesn't Crysta work for Australian players? (I'm in America.)

[Catapult]

Also, I'm curious, why doesn't Crysta work for Australian players? (I'm in America.)

Crysta is implemented, as I understand it, in different regions separately because of currencies, retail banking arrangements and differing financial legislation from Governments. SE would have to worry about exchange rates and also how to extract the money obtained through retail sale of crysta-sources, such as the Ultimate Gamer Card.

This is just pure speculation, but because Australia represents only a small percentage of the gaming population (we're talking in the realm of 2%-ish) they may have deemed the costs of introducing crysta in the Australian market as unviable, outweiging the returns they would get from the participation of our player base. This argument is often used to justify why some game titles themselves are never localized in Australia & New Zealand. eg: ATLUS does not localize in Australia without assistance from a third party with existing financial operations here, meaning games such as Devil Survivor or Radiant Historia will never hit our store shelves unless that store imports directly from the US.

Please don't take that as gospel - I may be off target, but it's the best explanation I've heard. Either way, payment options in general have simply not been implemented in Australia and thus, when setting up the game in the billing system only the one payment option appears - Euro currency ClickAndBuy.

I hope that helps on the "why not" front.

Much of this would be moot though if Australians could pay in US dollars and without the third-party ClickAndBuy Rubbish. With a very favorable exchange rate for us right now, it would make things cost LESS than what North American's will pay.
$1.00AU = $1.06US