Direct Payment now available

[Dreamer]

Thank you SE!! No more Click & Buy and their damn extra fees!

What extra fees? None on my end.

Then again, I've never understood the hate for both C&B and Crysta.

[Ashthra]

Thank God.

Oh, and SE, too. <.<

[Elexia]

What extra fees? None on my end.

Then again, I've never understood the hate for both C&B and Crysta.

Crysta is perfectly fine just people thinking it's like Xbox/Wii points, when it's not. C&B has a transaction fee much like if you use an ATM machine (which no one complains about.)

[Antipika]

Sadly there were a LOT of issues with not only crysta but click and buy as well. Everything went through a middle man when life could've been so much easier taking money directly from us. Hell, they probably make more money now that they don't have to pay a middle man. My husband and I already paid for 6 months but the second it's up we are switching to this payment method instead.

Just because it is transparent it doesn't mean that there is no one in the middle.

There is and there will ALWAYS be someone in the middle. Square Enix isn't a bank and Square Enix never ever took money straight off you, even on FF XI, it wasn't directly taken off you.

I still love the new payment method, seamless Less hassle than C&B.

[Antanias]

Just thought of somethig, if I have leftover crysta before switching to direct payment...will the crysta be used up first?

[Reinheart]

Hope all those that couldn't pay now can pay and get in

Glad you finally were able to pay Catapult!

[Hayden]

This is awesome! Thanks for listening Squeenix!

[Velhart]

So I switched immediately after seeing that, thanks a bunch SE.

[Mieck]

Very surprised there was no VBV/MasterCard Secure Code on there. I take it that Square are comfortable keeping control of that liability themselves. Still, very glad I've been able switch all my transactions over to direct payment.

I never had any issue with C&B. It worked first time and has continued to work and bill me correctly, but I'm happier with a middle-man service being removed. In effect, I'd rather pay Square Enix for a Square Enix service than pay someone else who will pay Square Enix on my behalf for a Square Enix service.

[Supergroovegear]

Very surprised there was no VBV/MasterCard Secure Code on there. I take it that Square are comfortable keeping control of that liability themselves. Still, very glad I've been able switch all my transactions over to direct payment.

If you mean the three digit nuber on the reverse side of the card, the system definitely asks for that.

I never had any issue with C&B. It worked first time and has continued to work and bill me correctly, but I'm happier with a middle-man service being removed. In effect, I'd rather pay Square Enix for a Square Enix service than pay someone else who will pay Square Enix on my behalf for a Square Enix service.

I can't say I had C&B problems either but I set up my account when FFXIV was launched so the recent issues might not have been around back then. I was also unaware of any controversy about the service such as extra fees. I will need to cancel that account though but since it has been over a year since I set up the account, I will need to search back through my emails for the account username!

Direct CC payment is much easier, thanks SE!