Account address issue has STILL not been acknowledged by Square.

[Absurdity]

This is mostly correct, however Blizzard doesn't let you change region. I.e. if your account is EU, and you move to US, your Blizzard account will always be EU and you can't change it. However, inside that region, you are correct in that you can change country.

I have no idea if this has changed in recent years but with Blizzard it was a weird case of your account being entirely locked to that region, not just in terms of payment. If you for example had an EU account you couldn't even access the US servers.

[Sgt_Thud]

I think the region is locked in FFXIV because game keys are locked to that region. If you could just rebuy the game and expansion for your new region it would be annoying but preferable to simply being forever locked out by no longer being able to match your account region if you move from say, the USA to England.

And even below that, people are getting screwed if they move within their own region. Changed country within EU? Sucks to be you, start a new account because you can’t update country of address.

[MyouRi]

And even below that, people are getting screwed if they move within their own region. Changed country within EU? Sucks to be you, start a new account because you can’t update country of address.

This is my exact situation, woohoo!
The way the servers are set up in FFXIV is great, anyone and can play on NA, EU, Asia or Oceania datacenters. So I don't think there would be much appetite or need for changing your account region.

Although I will say that I had moved to Asia for a few years and accessing the EU mogstation was stupidly tricky. Initially I could access with a VPN in order to renew my sub (with a local asian bank card, oh the good ol' days), but then that was eventually blocked and I could only access through my phones mobile browser? Make it make sense Square.

Anyway, just let us change our countries of residence on your account system OR let us pay with a payment method from any country.
If there is some reason that neither of these simple fixes would work for them, they should at least have the decency to explain why to their customers.

Fun reminder that if your sub isn't active you aren't able to post on the official forums, so the majority of people this affects can't even say anything.

[Sgt_Thud]

Fun reminder that if your sub isn't active you aren't able to post on the official forums, so the majority of people this affects can't even say anything.

This right here is exactly why we need to keep making noise. The people affected literally -can’t- and need the rest of us to stand up for them. We can’t just sit here going “screw you got mine”.

[Myrany]

I have no idea if this has changed in recent years but with Blizzard it was a weird case of your account being entirely locked to that region, not just in terms of payment. If you for example had an EU account you couldn't even access the US servers.

It's been years since I played but as a NA player I never had a problem rolling a toon and playing on the Aus/OCE servers. I legit cannot remember about EU. I know in one guild we have a Scottish gentleman who had no problems being on NA servers. So it might well have changed.