with playspan discontinued will hurt the game

[subteraneanbird]

So Mr SE... first you remove a pay option than was the ONLY viable for people living outside of the US, because either don’t trust your online cash services (And with justified reason seeing your horrible client service) to give you a credit or debit card number, cant buy that games cards than are far more expensive or simple are not available in many country’s (like the one I live). Then you say there is going to be more ways to sub, but you don’t say when or how? Well let me tell than this incompetent person than is taking this decisions should by fired right now, because you are doing thing the worst way possible and if the objective is to lost costumers you are doing it excellent.

They removed the option because it was provided by a third party service that was shut down entirely. Don't lie if you want sympathy.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

There is a way around this everyone, order a paypal card, it is a mastercard debit card.

[Alion]

In SE's defense they did not remove the PayPal option, it was through a third party that went belly up. they left and so did the paypal option . . .

Maybe, the third party removed a prepaid card option, and that was it, SE didn't had to remove the whole lot, but there might be something else.

They removed the option because it was provided by a third party service that was shut down entirely. Don't lie if you want sympathy.

The third party "Play Span" is up and operational, just one portion of it (the Ultimate Pay Points) shut down, and certainly, not the PayPal system.

There is a way around this everyone, order a paypal card, it is a mastercard debit card.

As stated before in this same thread, that is for US residents only, so, not an option for many of us.

[Squa11_Leonhart]

Maybe, the third party removed a prepaid card option, and that was it, SE didn't had to remove the whole lot, but there might be something else.


The third party "Play Span" is up and operational, just one portion of it (the Ultimate Pay Points) shut down, and certainly, not the PayPal system.


As stated before in this same thread, that is for US residents only, so, not an option for many of us.

Bah, i thought they had finally got their crap together and started distributing them elsewhere.

[Archulak]

Better yet, how about not resubbing until they add an option I can pay safely and surely with, aka Paypal. At least in my case they have 6 months to add more payment options, but others aren't as lucky.

That's totally within your right to do, but there is an option for you to pay with using paypal you just don't want to because it's more expensive. What you should be asking for more specifically is a paypal option on the mogstation. And really you should have been asking for this 3 months ago when they announced that Ultimate game time cards were going away(it's been on the loadstone front page for that long)

[Roris]

That's totally within your right to do, but there is an option for you to pay with using paypal you just don't want to because it's more expensive. What you should be asking for more specifically is a paypal option on the mogstation. And really you should have been asking for this 3 months ago when they announced that Ultimate game time cards were going away(it's been on the loadstone front page for that long)

It is more expensive, that's why even though it's indeed an option, it's a bad one for legacy people since there's nothing to gain and everything to lose by paying more, understandably people would not want it. I admit I didn't ask for a Paypal option to be added directly to the Mogstation before, though the OP posted a topic with another person asking for it. The most likely reason more people didn't ask for it in advance is because of this statement in your link.

In light of this news, we are also working with payment providers to increase the number of payment solutions we can offer.

Which would lead most people to believe they would have worked out something by now, yet nothing happened on the Mogstation, only game cards were added on a separate site that admittedly is still owned by them, but the Mogstation is supposed to be main page to manage ARR subscriptions and purchase game time. You'd think 3 months would be plenty of time to sort out something as important as this but apparently not. Yet again, this game loves throwing around the good old "please look forward to it" or "we'll be looking into it" so the expectations are already subpar.

[Sakuraluna]

The most likely reason more people didn't ask for it in advance is because of this statement in your link.

I'll expand on this as well.

This means these 2 options will no longer be offered as a payment method for purchasing Crysta. The last day to redeem retail Ultimate Game Card codes will be September 29, 2014 and the last day to redeem your UltimatePoints will be October 31, 2014.

They never said anything about paypal. That's why I never thought to ask for it, because I literally didn't think it would be going away.

[Felis]

Maybe SE should bring back Click&Buy?

[BobbinT]

They removed the option because it was provided by a third party service that was shut down entirely. Don't lie if you want sympathy.

Sigh...

First, you don't even know what you're talking about. Second, you're throwing insults?

I guess you never receive this in your email, so I just pasted this here for your reading pleasure:

And really you should have been asking for this 3 months ago when they announced that Ultimate game time cards were going away(it's been on the loadstone front page for that long)

Another dumb response. Check the forum before making that comment. And if you're not sure, don't comment at all. In case you still have no idea:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/172181-For-those-of-you-that-use-Ultimate-Game-Cards

Again, please refrain commenting if you're not giving viable solution or too lazy to check if forum has already creating thread discussing this for some time, especially for anything that requires card payment.

[Pharacelcus]

as a legacy player, time cards are not a solution for me.
also, i can't sub to my retainers through them.
i'm not in the possession of a debit card.

can you please at least add paypal? or i'm afraid this is where it stops for me.

edit: their store has paypal (even paysafecard) without third party support. why can't this?