This is a serious concern of mine at this time. C&B ended up causing the replacement of one of my credit cards. FFXIV went live, I set up my account, and attempted to sign up with C&B... and had lots and lots of issues, ultimately leading me to believe that my account hadn't completely finished setting up. I fired off an angry e-mail about the whole mess (since at the time we all still thought we'd need to be paying fees in one month)...

... and the first response that I got as a result of attempting to set up my C&B account was from my credit card company wanting to know if it should approve a charge from them.

>.<

Needless to say, I said no. My card company assumed that the number had been stolen or otherwise gotten out "into the wild", and killed the card number.


If SE sticks with C&B, then I will have very serious misgivings about continuing to play the game once it finally goes live.