My first free month has expired. I originally tried to buy Crysta using a fresh and unused Master Card Vanilla gift card (electronic use only) of 100CAN$ and buy a few months' worth of Crysta. The conversion of Canadian currency into American one should have given me something which would end up costing under 80CAN$ - well under the real total amount of funds available I suspect would be around 95CAN$ if you include whatever activation fees those annoying cards have. I got two errors 401.

I then decided then to go with a no-nonsense automatic renewal using my credit card this time, credit card which has worked for pretty much every games I've paid for and still does today, thinking maybe that gift card is just utter chocobo dung (it has yet to work for ANY purchase). Got error 406.

I guess I just won't be playing FFXIV:ARR.