with playspan discontinued will hurt the game

[DarkStaoneDragon]

Ok so I went to add crysta after seeing someone post on the forums that ultimate pay was no longer able to be used I went to my account and this is what I saw,




as you can see I have 1 crysta and my only way of paying is paypal, I'd love to see paypal as a option, now before anyone says "Get a prepaid credit card" it's too much of a hassle to get the billing address set up, I live in a rural area and the pre-paid time card isn't an option since it doesn't cover extra retainers or other additional services ,this doesn't just effect 14 it effects 11 as well, if you allow paypal on your site store why not allow it on mogstation/SE account management page? there are a lot of people with this issue as well, I'm seeing a lot of people having error 401, 406 ect. due to credit card issues in the tech. forums This is just one place why not add an option for paypal? my Wife and I would love to support this game, but we can't since we can't pay for our subs through paypal, that way we can pay for our subs and additional services such as fantasia and retainers ect.
below is what SE said about removing playspan

In light of this news, we have also decided to remove all PlaySpan payment options from the Mog Station and Square Enix Account Management System with immediate effect. We'd like to apologise for the sudden removal of these features but would like to reassure all customers that we still offer a varied range of payment options for the purchase of Crysta or subscription payments.

We continue to work with payment providers to increase the number of payment solutions we can offer you. Please keep checking announcements for the latest updates.

here is the link
Here is another link about players wanting paypal.
It's not just me!

[Tupsi]

See all those other options? It's not going to kill the game. there's still ways to pay for it. What will kill the game is design direction. That is more likely to kill it than, -gasp- having to use your credit card/debit card directly

So no..I don't see that paypal is your only way as I see the option on that picture also is credit card. Even while in SEA you had multiple options, so unless where you reside has literally nothing but paypal (I doubt it) you may need to look into the other options available to you.

[Ahmbor]

i am paying with direct debit

[Bixby]

The existence of other options only carries so much weight. This will be a deal-breaker for some people. Some will simply prioritize not having to pay with <insert method here> over being able to play the game. Some will consider this the last straw on top of other small annoyances.

It's not going to be enough people to kill the game by a long shot.

I think all the grumbling is justified, though. It's an annoyance to have options removed, and if SE can (feasibly) do something to make this segment of their market happy, it's kind of silly of them not to.

[Shioban]

You can also purchase game-time cards, some physical and delivered, others are emailed digital codes.

There are plenty of options, they've changed payment systems a lot over the years, usually for good reason.

[MeiUshu]

they are doing it and are well aware of it otherwise they would be kind of bad managers of a business....so is by far at their advantage to offer some alternatives ...I think that if tehy would release some pre-paid cards it would help alot, they are hardly available or so hard to find that when you get the chance to find them you pay the whole lot (3 or 4) so that you knwo you can play for at least a year lol

Mei

[LalaRu]

"Get a prepaid credit card" it's too much of a hassle to get the billing address set up

PlaySpan has been removed not because SE does not like it, but because PlaySpan itself have shutted down its own Ultimate Card service.

That means, any and all games you were using that payment system, have withdraw it.

Sorry for you, but I guess you have to get the prepaid card if you want deal with all merchants that does not accept paypal.

[polyhedral]

I use to pay with my debit card, now things are rough and any money in that account goes strictly to bills only. SE would always pull the monthly fee out at random times during the month, instead of the day of the renewal for myself anyway. I'd love to be able to walk into any of the 3 Wal-Mart supercenters here and purchase a card, but they don't exist here. Not even at the 5 Gamestops.

It's just a small issue I'm having currently.

[DarkStaoneDragon]

See all those other options? It's not going to kill the game. there's still ways to pay for it. What will kill the game is design direction. That is more likely to kill it than, -gasp- having to use your credit card/debit card directly

So no..I don't see that paypal is your only way as I see the option on that picture also is credit card. Even while in SEA you had multiple options, so unless where you reside has literally nothing but paypal (I doubt it) you may need to look into the other options available to you.

Ok you obviously didn't read the whole post or dont know what Rural area means so here is the definition of it "Full Definition of RURAL

: of or relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture" found here
and pre-paid card companies don't want to recognize those addresses and I spent 3-4 weeks trying to get the last one I bought just to have them cancel the card, so not really an reasonable option and you do realize their is a monthly fee to use them from the CC company right?

You can also purchased game-time cards, some physical and delivered, others are emailed digital codes.

There are plenty of options, they've changed payment systems a lot over the years, usually for good reason.

Know where to get a time card for retainers? .... no? ... ok or better yet fantaisia? ... still no? see there are things time cards don't cover.

PlaySpan has been removed not because SE does not like it, but because PlaySpan itself have shutted down its own Ultimate Card service.

That means, any and all games you were using that payment system, have withdraw it.

Sorry for you, but I guess you have to get the prepaid card if you want deal with all merchants that does not accept paypal.

Ultimate card service didn't effect paypal. so what is your point of your post?

I recently purchased two 60 day time card from the Square-Enix store. One I used on my son's account who is a standard level account and the other I used on my own account which is a Legacy account.

Just a heads up to anyone else, at the current time it DOES NOT take into account any difference between your account status, there is no credit for extra time, there is no reduced fee. I have not yet tried it on an entry level account but I fear even that would be the exact same price as all the rest using this digital time card system. Also not sure if this works the same for the physical time cards.

Hope they can get this fixed, either convert the extra credit to crysta or just do the math for how many extra days it would account for.

but the legacy players really gets the shaft with the pre-paid cards since the card doesn't recognize that the legacy members get a discount as stated in the quote above I'm not legacy but it's still messed up

[Tupsi]

Ok you obviously didn't read the whole post or dont know what Rural area means

The Philippines outside of Manilla is the definition of Rural, so yes I know exactly what it means.

Know where to get a time card for retainers? .... no? ... ok or better yet fantaisia? ... still no? see there are things time cards don't cover.

This is why I said unless you reside somewhere that ONLY uses paypal as their form of payment, in your country, it's understandable - but I'm pretty sure you do have other options available to you. They mentioned time card so you can play the game, you don't need optional services to play the game

If your country/city doesn't want to recogonize those addresses that's, sadly, not SE's problem - They can't cater to everyone. Maybe they'll add paypal directly, otherwise, how do you live day by day if you can only use paypal? Paypal offers cards as well.