Who in God's name designed your payment system SE?

[reality_check]

Wow, this is on par with the awfulness of the ancient play online system.

The old play online system would bill you at the beginning of the month, regardless of when you started your subscription. So if you started up your subscription on the 30th of a month, you would get double billed. One for when you subscribed and again on the first of the month. It was atrocious. This doesn't sound much better.

[Tupsi]

The old play online system would bill you at the beginning of the month, regardless of when you started your subscription.

So what you're saying is..it would bill you like many other companies in the world would bill you when you utilize their service if it's not based on a time frame? Shocking. Surprising. UNHEARD OF! Whoever designed SE's payment system seems to work because I can use my card and also buy crysta perfectly fine. Are you trying to use it in a non-supported country (and have to use x region despite it not being yours)? Because that's going to cause issues no matter what company you pay monthly for.

Remember: Regardless of region you're still trying to get processed by a Japanese company, so chances are your bank may not be playing nice with that, not SE's system in general.

[Kosmos992k]

Whoever designed SE's payment system seems to work because I can use my card and also buy crysta perfectly fine. Are you trying to use it in a non-supported country (and have to use x region despite it not being yours)? Because that's going to cause issues no matter what company you pay monthly for.

Well, aren't you fortuante. No, no unsupported country, nothing like that at all. And by the way, SE's payment processing is not a Japanese bank. Even if it was, 99% of card payments are handled by a very few global payment processing organizations, it's all quite international and quite well regulated. If you use a Visa card, it's a visa payment, it has little or nothing to do with your bank.

[Tupsi]

Well, aren't you fortuante. No, no unsupported country, nothing like that at all. And by the way, SE's payment processing is not a Japanese bank. Even if it was, 99% of card payments are handled by a very few global payment processing organizations, it's all quite international and quite well regulated. If you use a Visa card, it's a visa payment, it has little or nothing to do with your bank.

Yep, I use a visa and BoA which is notorious for having random issues with some payments due to "security" reasons which will prevent it from going through - so it definitely does depend on your bank when it comes to online payments.

[Kosmos992k]

Yep, I use a visa and BoA which is notorious for having random issues with some payments due to "security" reasons which will prevent it from going through - so it definitely does depend on your bank when it comes to online payments.

It really should not, the way payment processing works, it should not depend on your individual bank. Either way, the trouble is not with the bank, SE has charged the card before. But my point is that regardless of that, their system should not punish me because of a bank or card issue if I am authenticated with their one time password security token I should be able to change the card on the payment method without incurring further penalties from their system. Their system is literally designed to punish consumers more and more just for trying to correct any card information or give new information after a failed transaction.

[Diadumenos]

It's been a while but I do remember the Mogstaton payment system being mind-blowingly, overly complicated. I even think I remember reading a couple gaming site reviews bringing up that very issue... $E got their money so they don't care what kind of a headache it caused =/