So basically, the ability to pay for crysta with paypal has been removed, and you can only do so with your credit card now. The same goes for subscription fees. Which means the only other alternative is to buy a prepaid card (which makes my subscription 25% more expensive) and which leaves me doomed to wait for the slowpoke postal service. No thank you.

Not everyone has a credit card (I don't, for example), and that pretty much means there's no proper option to pay my subscription fees anymore. I don't know if you realized this when you cancelled the paypal option, but this is going to be really bad for business because people will get frustrated.

Me for example, I can't pay for my subscription anymore. So I'm going to wait for a fix and play other MMO's in the meanwhile. MMO's that do accept paypal, that is