The inability to change your country, and the end of my time with Square-Enix

[Pawkeshup]

I expected at least one person to defend SE's practice, it is almost the norm these days. So Xystic, let's get this over and done with now. I like FFXI and FFXIV. I think XII and XIII are weaker entries, and hope that FFXIV brings the series back to form. Being critical is not bashing. It's having an opinion. Your "speculation" is not even needed. If you read in the original posts, I said directly the options offered, time cards and having someone else in Canada pay for me. And those two were offered in the same breath, not after I complained as to why this was impossible.

I don't want to buy time cards as an option because, point blank, SE has removed payment options before. If they decide to do it again with time cards, then what is my option? I cannot buy Crysta because it uses credit cards the same way autopayments do. Even if they still offered PayPal as an option to buy Crysta (an option Ultimate Pay offered prior to its change of business plan), there is also the issue that I use an authenticator. Unless policy has changed, if I order another, it is shipped to the address on file. Likewise, downloading the app may not work either, as apps are country-specific and carried in country-specific stores. So I would likely need the Canadian version of the app for my Canadian account, which I cannot access via the American Play store or American iTunes app store.

That's why I don't see a reason to use the work around. It doesn't fix the root issues here. It patches them over, and I just have to hope SE maintains that status quo. If they don't, I'm investing more time in a game I will be cut off from arbitrarily because of the company's poor policy towards moving to a new country.

Edit:

And to those who understand, thank you! It's frustrating, and I wish they would just allow the change. And Amberion, I called the call center, and eventually spoke to a supervisor who told be that they were just unable to do anything. Even getting that far took repeated calls as the supervisor refused to even speak with me on it. They just stonewalled me, so it shows they have no interest in me offering them money to play their game. It's a little crazy when you think about how much effort they put into welcome back campaigns to turn around and do this.