Dear Square Enix...

[Mychael]

I'm sorry you had to face the same lame problem as many of us, my friend. Right now players from: "Middle East, South America, East Asia and a few more counties.." cannot find a way to pay other than C&B, which has it's own problems.

It's been 2 weeks since they announced that they're working on a new payment method. And I doubt it will come any time sooner.

I'm not trying to discourage you, but this is what I, my friends and so many people ended up with, here's the cold hard truth:

SE won't care that you cannot play, and they won't add a new payment method either way. They'd rather work on some huge retarded mount for the time being.

Do you want to play? Forget about your current account, buy a US FFXIV CD Key from any online store, and start a new US account..

Yeah I know it sucks, but it's the only way.

And don't worry, you'll get all classes to 50, finish all fights and complete all achievements before this problem is solved.

Um. From what source did you learn/decide that the same team that models NPCs (here referring to the addition of a carpet to the head of a monster that hasn't changed much since XI), or animates (here referring to adding a character sitting on top of the already-existing goobbue running motions) would be the ones working out the contracts or legalities of payment systems?

Some people amaze me.
A: "What do you do?"
B: "I am a graphic designer who also negotiates contracts for a huge company's billing options."
A: "Wow."
B: "Yeah. I have an MBA, a international law degree with extensive experience in Japanese, KSA, USA, UK, and several other countries' systems, a graphics design degree, and I learned 3D animation in my spare time."

Because all of Square Enix's employees are like that, I'm sure.

Why should we even do that? changing our addresses in our SE account or even getting a new one just to play, buy another game for that? SE should just add at least one god damn payment option, that's all what we ask for...

^What Sigul said. This isn't an issue where work-arounds are appropriate. Having to forge an address shouldn't even come to mind. A fix is needed. At the same time, a huge deal like this consists of a LOT more than Squeenix registering a PayPal account. There are a lot of steps in the process and I can assume that there was a d@mned good reason they chose C&B over collecting their own money or a more popular company. I'm guessing they regret that decision now, but it's not something they can fix over the phone.