Quote Originally Posted by Darkstride View Post
I still don't even understand why anyone would buy Crysta, let alone 9000 of it that goes unused for 2 years. All it does is add a completely unnecessary step to any purchase or subscription that you could instead just pay for directly.

In my case three reasons.

1. As I am older than many on here, I have numerus forms of financial access in the forms of cards and accounts. Crysta allows me to choose which of those financial forms I want to pay for anything related to FF14. You might say, why not use just one?', and that is a valid question. And the answer is I don't want to by tied down to one form of payment in case it needs to be used elsewhere. Crysta allows me to choose where I want the payment to come from month to month.

2. I don't always feel like playing. By leaving my subscription Crysta payment only I have total control when it is active. If I don't want to play next month I simply don't add any Crysta to the account. If it was attached to a card, I would have to manually turn it off and would be screwed if I forgot to.

3. If SE ever gets hacked one day and someone steals financial data, I would have nothing to worry about since I have none on their servers.