Terrible Payment System

[Betelgeuzah]

They can change it once payments actually become relevant again.

All I want is for Euro's current rate to be considered. If Americans get to pay 12 bucks while Europeans get to pay 12 Euroes.. .that's bullshit of the smelliest caliber.

15/12 or 12/9.

[korachy]

clickandbuy s not good at all ,,i agree

[Eunys]

I can't stand when a company doesn't accept direct payment, I'll be damned if I'm forced to use some third rate paypal type company with my financial accounts. At least sell Crysta Card in stores or something if they are to cheap to pay a CC processing fee, or just charge us the stupid extra 0.10 for the fee.

SE will either add an in store card option, or pay direct or I'll just let my account close when they start charging.

[InuraBera]

For everything I like about the game, after my experience with PlayOnline (nothing bad, just clunky) I feared the worst in this game - and they didn't dissapoint...sort of. If at all possible, I would like this to be changed because I don't trust the third party sites at all and it really does make me think whether when payment is necessary if I would be willing to use such a service - if *I* don't want to play based on the possibility of being screwed over, and I've had fun since the beginning then it is a pretty serious thing.

The beauty of Warhammer Online, World of Warcraft, DC Universe and the like, is that I feel 'safe' giving them my details. Passing them over to "Click and Buy" on the other hand, I may as well just toss money at random strangers. The problem with this, is that it wont be presided over by the developers, but hopefully enough weight can change the mind of the money people.

[Aramyth]

I'm hoping that they are just waiting to address it until it's time to P2P. If they addressed it too early, people might think that P2P is coming up and bail if the game isn't up to par yet. I could be completely wrong though.

[Carver]

Square Enix will get the point and do something about Click and Buy once they implement pay to play and suddenly they lose a large amount of their player base. The only way to get the point across at times is to just boycott until someone sees the light.

The downside of Square Enix not addressing/fixing this issue is that they risk losing at least some of that player base for good due to the fact that they haven't openly addressed this, and are making their potential customers feel ignored.

[Catapult]

My concern is that even if our dear community reps have seen this thread, they are unable to comment as this may be an issue outside even Yoshi-P's jurisdiction. I just get that vibe that this is a corporate SE thing operating separately to the game.

This is why I sent the email to SE support for account/billing matters at https://support.eu.square-enix.com/c...hp?id=903&la=2 (no reply yet since sent ten days ago - letter can be seen here). More people should do this so the accountants don't assume there are no concerns.

Alternatively, any form of even vague acknowledgement from Bayhone, Gildrein or Rukkirii that the devs know this problem exists would serve us with some ideas in which avenue to pursue it.

[odette]

the reason playonline is not viable is for secure code, many accounts are suspended and SE lost many players, outher problem playonline always you need pay in 1st days in the month if you want enjoy the game for one month, but if you pay day 15 for example, you can play ffxiv only 15 days it sucks, and you pay all month

the good options is include paypal in the payment system

[Catapult]

That being said, why not improve the playonline system (ie: get rid of the 1st of month issue) and continue with it rather than create something new and external?

[KaiKatzchen]

That being said, why not improve the playonline system (ie: get rid of the 1st of month issue) and continue with it rather than create something new and external?

Agreed, I don't think it would be too hard to program it to pull the money out the day the card/account is activated. So if I start on the 5th, make it to where the system automatically pulls out money every 30 days from the day I started. Someone else started on the 16th, well then they will get charged every 30 days from their start date etc etc... every company does it: insurance, cable, internet, cell phone... etc.

I don't see why SE can't make a payment system in house like that or reprogram POL to do it.