Terrible Payment System

[Rannie]

To be honest, my frustration with this issue is reaching a point where I'm ready to blow my tiny savings account and travel to Tokyo to personally bring this problem to their attention.

I know this isn't great to say but I would pay to see someone do that. Maybe it would knock some sense into them... either that or land someone in jail but.... They do need to say something to US (ie XIV players)

[SilvertearRen]

I know this isn't great to say but I would pay to see someone do that. Maybe it would knock some sense into them... either that or land someone in jail but.... They do need to say something to US (ie XIV players)

Yep...and we both know that Square STILL wouldn't listen even if that happened, because it would all get swept under the rug. No wonder I'm starting to dislike the Japanese. Their "tradition-bound" ways are starting to become very idiotic in the context of an international business.

I bet this problem would gain so much more traction if the Japanese players in the FFXIV/FFXI community also threw their lot in with us to get Square to change payment processors. I'm sure THEY would not want to see the game die out...

[Jennestia]

Yep...and we both know that Square STILL wouldn't listen even if that happened, because it would all get swept under the rug. No wonder I'm starting to dislike the Japanese.

Don't worry, a lot of the world dislikes the western nations as well.

"tradition-bound" ways are starting to become very idiotic"

No offense, but I really hope you're not American and saying our culture is idiotic. You're frustrated yeah, but how is a nation's culture "idiotic" compared to any other nation? Know what I seen the first day Japanese beta of Tera goes live? NA players cussing out and provoking Japanese players.

That's great and all that a rep responded on the FFXI forum but what about us. Granted yes we aren't paying to play the game

You answered yourself -- Why would they tell us about a payment system when we aren't paying? It's like expecting an answer to why your medium rare steak is well done before you even got it.

Besides, it's universally accepted the entire payment move is a bad idea -- on the FFXI side, people agree while POL had issues, it was straight forward however moving toward the whole SE account thing, I'm pretty sure direct CC payments they have to go through a lot more hoops for the NA/EU player bases than they do for the Japanese bases.

Many people like to cite international laws and "Europes Digital Act etc etc" whenever NA or Japan does something that affect Europeans in a bad way gaming wise, why is that being forgotten now?