Alternate methods to pay for subs?

[Arcsol93]

Looking for one, and please don't state the obvious get a debit/credit card. Numerous bad experiences with them in the past and I refuse to use them.

Is it possible to get crysta for the sub using a prepaid visa card or something of the sort? If not I can try to get a time card through gamestop online or something but I'm looking for the quickest method possible without having to deal with shipping or something else.

And if the prepaid does work how much is suggested to be loaded on there for say about 60 days?

Thanks.

[CGMidlander]

You can use prepaid cards like Ultimate Game Cards to buy Crysta.
There are also official FFXIV 90 day sub cards you can buy, if you can find them where you live. (I can't.)

[Noshpan]

I don't see why you couldn't use a pre-paid debit card. As for amount, I think it depends on what your subscription is. If it's a basic subscription ($12.99 USD) then at least $25.98 USD or 2,598 in Crysta. But I think you can find out via the Mog Station how much it would cost if you paid for X amount of months in advance (and that tends to be cheaper).

Oddly enough, I have not seen pre-paid game time cards for FFXIV (or for any MMO other than WoW) at my local Wal-mart, K-Mart, Target or Gamestops. (Which was part of the reason I had to un-subscribe to Warhammer Online a few years ago. Wal-mart and both of my local Gamestops ceased carrying the pre-paid game time cards.)

[Arcsol93]

You can use prepaid cards like Ultimate Game Cards to buy Crysta.
There are also official FFXIV 90 day sub cards you can buy, if you can find them where you live. (I can't.)

I've checked my gamestop and they have every other mmo time card but FFXIV, it really irks me -_- I did read about the UGC but I have no idea if gamestop stocks it or not but that's an option if it does. (I live in a backwater hick town so stuff like this is hard to come by.)

See I thought a prepaid card could work since I've done it for other online games, but when I checked to be sure most said it wouldn't work at all. Though this was back in September when services first started.

I mean sure if the card doesn't work I can just use the card to by a time card online, I'm just the impatient type who doesn't want to wait a week for something like that to come in. Or pay extra for just a card.

[Slatervonjager]

Paypal.

The fact that there is no paypal option has always irked me.

[Wobble]

I use the prepaid time cards from SE myself.

[RazeLandale]

I have to wonder about the politics of nobody carrying their card. Like if they won't give them a fair cut or what. Since the only way to get a prepaid card is by buying one online with a credit card is kind of pointless.

[Failia]

Paypal.

The fact that there is no paypal option has always irked me.

I bought my copy of FF14 through Steam. I pay for my subsction through that, which connects to PayPal which connects directly to my bank account. I hate using credit cards online.

[NyxNoughtNothing]

i've been paying my sub through Steam and i'm pretty confident you can use prepaid Visa cards and the like with Steam.

[SarcasmMisser]

Pre-paid Visa cards I've seen people have issue with at blizzard, because the lack of their account name on the card throws up a lot of red flags. Depends on the sort of card I guess? Maybe someone who uses them could enlighten. I don't know why you would trust paypal and not a bank, they're basically a bank except don't take on near the amount of liability when it comes to fraud, leaving you worse off if something went wrong.

Just take off your tinfoil hat, listen to what you don't want to hear and get a debit/credit card. It turns out withdrawing from the institutions of modern society has consequences.