What is the deal with 30 day game time actually being 29 days? How is this legal?

[worldofneil]

you're supposed to count starting at the start of the day through the end of that day for a day.

Says you... that's not how it works for THIS game. As you already put in your first post, it's calendar days. You might not agree with it, but that's how it works here. Your first month will be less than 24 actual hours depending on what time you start. Automatic renewals going forward won't be affected.

And what about unplanned maintenance? That happens a lot.

Well it is unplanned... and still quite infrequent I think. It's literally a few hours at a time, at most.

It's been this way since 2.0 (2013, longer if you include 1.0 subscriptions) so I can't see it changing.

If you're this upset about it, sorry, but maybe this isn't the game for you.

[Thukoolo]

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[Toutatis]

I just wish they would refund time lost because this game surely has a *lot* of maintenance.

It has normal maintenance schedules and maintenance is already provided for in your agreement with SE.

[Renalt]

I will be moving this thread to "General Discussion".

That's a mods way of saying "Oops it took us 9 days to notice your issue. We plan to bury it in no man's land. Please look forward to it."

[Troxbark]

Uh, hello Square? You know this is grounds for a class-action lawsuit, right? Just read these forums. Your fans are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.

You didn't read past the first post and if you're going to quit, can I have your stuff?

[dspguy]

I've played this game since release and have stayed subscribed for much of that time (but not 100%). I checked my email history (FFXIV Notification Payment Complete). My payments have landed on the same day with little drift: (7th or 8th of the month in recent times). Times I've unsubbed and then resubbed, the day is reset and drifts about 1 day, but pretty much stays within that range (22nd or 23rd) for months.

I'm not sure what the OP's issue is exactly. I'm not saying they are wrong. I think if they let it run a few months, they'd see they are billed around the same time every month over the long term.

[Boblawblah]

You didn't read past the first post and if you're going to quit, can I have your stuff?

narrator: She didn't quit.

[Aword3213]

narrator: She didn't quit.

She still need to stay subbed in order to obtain those heavily-modded eye provoking Mare screenshots few are privy to their existence, and parody the group she get her material from on the forum.